The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - David Eby doesn't want to look in BC election irregularities - Conservatives push inquiry

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. So British Columbia Premier David Eby has come out to try and mock the

00:00:06.820 BC Conservatives and their leader John Rustad for calling for an inquiry into election irregularities

00:00:12.820 in the 2024 BC provincial election. This is all very hypocritical and ironic on David Eby's part

00:00:20.960 since he was literally the first politician in BC to call for a review of election procedures

00:00:27.320 because of all the issues that there were in the provincial election. They were finding ballot

00:00:32.640 boxes like a week and a half after the voting. They were having ballots go missing. Random ballots

00:00:37.960 didn't actually get counted the first time. It was a mess. David Eby understood it. But now that he

00:00:44.280 realizes that there's enough irregularities in the riding of Surrey Guilford that could actually upend

00:00:50.060 the election and require a new by-election, suddenly David Eby is literally just calling what Rustad

00:00:56.720 and Hanvir Randhawa, the BC Conservative candidate from Surrey Guilford, what they're doing is now

00:01:02.140 cringe. It wasn't cringe when Eby was asking for the inquiry, but now that the inquiry has teeth and

00:01:09.200 could actually uncover enough problems that might require a new election and Gary Begg loses his seat,

00:01:15.680 now it's all very nasty and terrible that the Conservatives are looking into this.

00:01:20.160 Anyways, I want to take you to an interview clip right here with David Eby where he says these things.

00:01:26.400 In just a second, but before I do that, guys, remember to like this video, subscribe to the

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00:01:42.860 advance if you are able to do those things. Anyways, so here is David Eby's spotlight on the CBC where he

00:01:49.080 is asked about the inquiry issue. We're going to stay with our coverage of British Columbia because the

00:01:53.540 premier David Eby joins us now. Premier Eby, it's really good to see you again. Thanks for being

00:01:57.080 here, sir. Yeah, good to see you too. Before we get into the discussion of Canada-U.S. relations,

00:02:02.300 I wonder what's your reaction to what John Russ said is raising there today, wants an inquiry based

00:02:06.860 on what he considers to be irregularities. What's your response to the allegations he's making there?

00:02:12.580 Yeah, I mean, it's all a little bit cringe, I've got to say. Okay, a little bit cringe. So I'm guessing

00:02:17.980 that means you're not too concerned about these alleged irregularities. It's a bit like a Leafs

00:02:23.000 fan who says, you know, if we only scored enough goals, we would have made it through the playoff

00:02:27.280 round. Like, okay, one, let's just start off with any politician, especially the leader of a province

00:02:34.780 saying cringe. It is the most hello fellow children kind of a thing to say. Also, again, you can't really

00:02:42.280 say it when you were the one who approved of the idea of an inquiry. The one little point on the

00:02:49.700 inquiry that he called for, though, was he wanted it done by one of his own MLAs. So the best that

00:02:55.620 would be done is that problems would be identified and maybe solved later, but not actually retroactively

00:03:01.700 solved for elections they might have affected. Now, in Surrey-Guilford, this is the main battlefield

00:03:08.920 when it comes to the inquiry. Hanvir Andawa, the BC Conservative candidate, is filing a lawsuit

00:03:14.580 with the courts to try and have the election result thrown out because he has found 45 irregularities

00:03:21.900 in a riding where Gary Begg, the BC NDP candidate, only won by 22 votes. And so I think there is some

00:03:28.880 standard that if you can find like double the inquiry irregularities and you can prove they are in

00:03:33.760 fact irregularities, you must have the election like somehow solved, like somehow fixed, and you

00:03:40.720 have 90 days to be able to challenge the results. So they are within the amount of time it is required

00:03:47.920 to file a challenge. I think the deadline was on January 17th. So Hanvir is in early and they could

00:03:53.580 easily find more irregularities, more people whose ballots either weren't counted or were counted and

00:03:58.560 they shouldn't be. So I'll just quickly break down what the actual irregularities are in Surrey-Guilford

00:04:04.080 because it's actually serious. This isn't somebody saying, well, I saw some guy do something and I'm

00:04:10.060 spec he be lying about who he's voting for and all that. I mean, like we're talking about like a care

00:04:17.180 home for people. I don't even think it's a senior home, but it's a care home for people who are recovered

00:04:22.260 from addictions or they're used to be homeless or whatever. Some people might need like other like

00:04:27.520 living assistance support, mental health type stuff. But there's this lodge that is 80 meters

00:04:35.260 across the street from a school where there is a polling station. And somehow there were 21 ballots

00:04:41.920 mailed in from this place just across the street. And they've already basically found that the guy

00:04:48.380 running the site is not only an NDP partisan, but has been doing this election after election, which is

00:04:55.160 sending people's ballots in on their behalf and basically forcing their hands to vote. They have

00:05:00.140 affidavits to at least evidence this. So let's look at this. I want to just quickly look, read this

00:05:08.800 article from the Vancouver Sun. I don't usually like to read too much, but I think this is important.

00:05:15.840 So I'm just going to go over it for you guys here quickly today. He says, this writer, let's give him

00:05:21.180 credit, Alec Lazenby. Wasn't that one of the James Bond actors, the guy from Australia? My head's full

00:05:30.180 of references to movies I haven't even watched. But it says here, the writing's conservative

00:05:36.280 candidate, Hanvir Singh Randhawa, says he has received three affidavits from residents of Argyle Lodge,

00:05:42.220 redacted copies of which were provided to reporters in Victoria Thursday, stated that they did not request

00:05:47.780 the mail and ballots provided to them, and they were forced to rush through their choice of whom

00:05:52.120 to vote for. In the affidavits, the residents also said they did not even know a provincial election

00:05:56.820 was occurring, much less what the variation of various parties in their candidates stood for.

00:06:03.360 Valjeet Kondola, the manager of Argyle Lodge, said the allegations by Randhawa and the conservatives

00:06:08.080 are mind-blowing, baffling, and absurd. On October 19th, there was 103-vote leads, said Randhawa,

00:06:13.480 referring to his poll position on the election night that was eventually erased as remaining votes,

00:06:19.380 including mail-ins, were counted over the following days.

00:06:21.660 And so Kondola has basically tried to, you know, ride the line of like, I'm just helping people

00:06:29.640 fill out ballots. I'm not a partisan. I have no party affiliations at all. And the lie is usually

00:06:36.160 more telling than the actual truth, the fact that somebody chose to lie, because Kondola is a

00:06:42.400 partisan. Like, again, he's not exactly like a big donor. Most Canadians do not max out donations every

00:06:49.080 year. But this was uncovered by Brad Zubik here, who has pointed out, like, you can even see

00:06:56.180 Kondola Valjeet, and I believe that even his address that was along with it lined up, or, yeah,

00:07:04.260 like, lined up with his real address, but it doesn't really matter. He said, Brad Zubik said,

00:07:09.680 we never contact, we have no invested interest in any political agenda, any parties. And he was

00:07:17.780 literally donating to Jagmeet Singh's leadership campaign in 2017, and gave almost $500. That

00:07:25.860 doesn't feel like a donation that like an average person makes a single year donation of $459.

00:07:34.060 That's a lot of money for a Canadian donating in politics. Since back in 2017, I believe the limit

00:07:39.940 for how much you could donate was 1600. So it's not even like he was only giving like a fraction of what

00:07:45.460 an average donor gives. He's probably giving multiple times more what the median donor to the

00:07:51.020 NDP was giving. Anyways, so yeah, this is all pretty strange. The other irregularities, so first we have

00:07:58.600 those 21 from Argyle Lodge. We have another 22 from people whose addresses do not actually line up with

00:08:05.380 where they live, and there's a good chance that they do not actually live in the riding, but maybe,

00:08:10.020 and this could have been an honest mistake. Obviously, people are driving to the polling station

00:08:13.900 that they always voted at, even though they've moved five blocks away, and now they're in a

00:08:18.040 different riding. That's still a problem. It can't just be like, oopsie doodle, doesn't matter,

00:08:22.100 so let's just let Gary Begg be the NDP MLA, because it's difficult and stuff to go back and fix this

00:08:28.760 stuff. In tight elections, there needs to be more scrutiny than ever. Not like we like take my

00:08:34.200 magnifying glasses to see if there's any breaks in the ink of your ex, but like we need to make sure

00:08:39.340 that belts are obviously not coming in from the wrong place. So 21 from Argyle Lodge, 22 people

00:08:45.180 who may or may not actually live in the riding, and then we have another instance of somebody

00:08:51.260 double voting, apparently, basically being under a variation, the same name, but they accidentally

00:08:56.040 got registered twice on BC elections, and they were able to cast two ballots. So that's a problem.

00:09:02.620 So, you know, I don't think this is cringe, like David Eby is saying. If anything, this actually seems

00:09:08.480 kind of serious, but the human question mark David Eby thinks that, oh, well, you know, looking into

00:09:14.600 elections, that's like denialism. I literally had somebody already do that to me. It's not even like,

00:09:20.420 I'm just asking questions, like I'm Jesse Vendura here. I'm saying, hey, this is a problem. Can we look

00:09:27.200 into it to see if it's an actual big problem or if it's just an oddity? And they're like, well, that's

00:09:32.180 denialism. No, it's not. It's literally the reverse of election denialism. It is saying, hey,

00:09:39.020 let's fact check the election, these ballots that are in question, because guess what? By the end,

00:09:44.480 nobody can question the result because we have found every problem, and we have solved every problem.

00:09:50.700 That seems about fair to me. And, you know, I wish Hanvi Rondawa good luck in his court case. I think

00:09:57.380 that if you know anything about irregularities in your riding of people voting twice, people sending

00:10:03.300 in ballots that didn't actually want to send in ballots, make sure you contact somebody from the

00:10:07.980 BC Conservatives over that, especially if you live in Surrey, and especially if you live in the riding

00:10:13.860 of Surrey-Guilford, you can probably try and reach out to Hanvi Rondawa yourself. But yeah, this is very

00:10:19.600 important. The Conservatives, to their credit, because I think a lot of parties would have been

00:10:23.800 intimidated by the stupid denialist label, would have been intimidated to basically drop the, 0.98

00:10:31.920 not even allegations, not alleging anything. They're just saying, look into this, let's have 1.00

00:10:35.380 an inquiry. So the party's not actually a part of the, the party is not actually a part of the

00:10:42.600 call or the court case, but they have been posting stuff and demanding this judicial or this legislative

00:10:49.620 inquiry. And they've actually been posting even graphics to go alongside it of like, you know,

00:10:55.160 yeah, like, and why wouldn't we want a full inquiry until missing ballot boxes and ineligible voters

00:11:00.820 being able to show up and cast ballots? That seems to me like something that, you know, matters? I don't

00:11:08.440 know. Maybe I'm weird for thinking that we should talk about things that matter rather than calling them

00:11:13.500 cringe because your party has the ability to actually lose a seat if we dig down deep enough

00:11:19.240 into this. And again, maybe Gary Begg was one, maybe all the, maybe all the irregularities somehow

00:11:25.660 go towards the NDP. You know, maybe all, maybe that Candola guy at Argyle Lounge was actually filling

00:11:31.240 up ballots for the Conservatives. You know, I doubt it, but, you know, and I think the affidavits probably

00:11:36.800 proved that he was getting people to vote for Gary Begg, but like, you know, there's always the chance.

00:11:41.500 But anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. Remember to like this video, subscribe to the

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 11, 2025

David Eby doesn't want to look in BC election irregularities - Conservatives push inquiry

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