The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - David Eby EXPLODES over question about BC separatism support

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. If Canada is the land of bad government, that would make British

00:00:05.980 Columbia the final boss of bad government within Canada. The BC NDP and Premier David Eby seem

00:00:13.220 ideologically against the concept of fixing the province's problems, because fixing a problem

00:00:18.880 implies there was a problem, and Eby's NDP aren't going to acknowledge any of those exist anytime

00:00:24.300 soon. They're like allergic to the concept of common sense. I'm going to prove my point with a

00:00:30.800 clip from Question Period from a couple of days ago. Independent MLA Dallas Brody from the riding

00:00:36.520 of Vancouver Quilchina rose up in the legislature to ask Premier Eby what he's going to do about the

00:00:43.620 rising separatist sentiment in the province. BC is not a traditional province to have separatists in.

00:00:51.040 If you were to poll people a few years ago, maybe 5%, maybe 10%, mostly in the West, would want BC to

00:00:59.400 separate from the rest of Canada. Right now, based on a new Research Co poll, it's around 25%. Very,

00:01:07.300 very high for a place like BC. And of course, Eby, upon being asked a question about this,

00:01:14.260 mocks Dallas Brody and then has a hissy fit and starts screaming about how she's racist. 1.00

00:01:19.480 This is what government is like in British Columbia.

00:01:24.440 Member for Vancouver Quilchina.

00:01:26.940 Good morning, Mr. Speaker. According to a recent poll, the number of British Columbians wanting BC to

00:01:33.860 leave Canada has grown from 20 to 28% in a little over one year. Two weeks ago, the Premier said that he

00:01:43.860 hates this discussion and that he wants it to stop. These anxieties are real. Mr. Speaker, with the

00:01:51.780 election of Mark Carney, concerns may continue to grow. Will the Premier commit to acknowledging

00:01:57.820 and engaging in meaningful consultation with this growing community about how to restore their hope

00:02:06.860 in the future of this province and in our great country?

00:02:11.820 I was slightly wrong on the stat. So it's 28% of British Columbians who think that BC would be

00:02:18.260 better off as its own country or joining the United States or something like that. And she even quoted

00:02:23.740 Eby, I think paraphrasing him, saying that he wants this issue to be, you know, to be gone. Why are we even

00:02:29.680 talking about this? It's like, that is such a classically BC thing to do as the Premier. An issue

00:02:35.500 comes up. Oh, my goodness. Why don't we just not have this issue be a thing? It is, but Eby doesn't

00:02:41.480 want to acknowledge that it's a problem and he's just going to belittle it.

00:02:48.220 Premier.

00:02:49.580 Thank you, Honourable Speaker. I am very excited to work with the new Prime Minister of Canada,

00:02:57.560 Mark Carney. What he is saying. What he's going to do is let David Eby get away with it on safe supply

00:03:05.540 and decriminalization programs. That's what he's going to do. That's why he's excited.

00:03:09.920 About his commitment to trade corridors, to energy corridors, to supporting clean energy,

00:03:17.500 consistent with the bill that was recently introduced to the House from the Minister of Energy.

00:03:22.280 He says this at the same time he's against actual natural gas and oil and gas pipelines,

00:03:27.120 or oil and gas development. The man's such a hypocrite. He's in favor of energy corridors 1.00

00:03:31.620 because it sounds good, but no, no, no. He means like wind farm energy corridors,

00:03:35.560 which is completely ridiculous and would not work at all.

00:03:39.440 Around our electricity system here in the province and our support for the province of Alberta to help

00:03:44.940 them decarbonize. For our support to the Yukon, support to major projects here to reduce carbon

00:03:49.940 pollution, grow our economy. His support for critical minerals and mining. And the mining proposals we have

00:03:56.480 going forward, the new mines we're opening here in the province. His commitment to make sure people

00:04:01.120 get the training that they need, very consistent with our government's commitment to ensure people

00:04:04.760 are trained for the jobs of the future. But most importantly, for his commitment to all Canadians,

00:04:11.040 that we are going to stand on our own two feet, that we will not be apologists to Donald Trump

00:04:16.680 and his 51st state agenda.

00:04:21.320 What does that even mean? I'm most excited about the fact that he wants Canada to stand up on its

00:04:26.480 own two feet. Sorry, which person was going to be prime minister who's going to advocate that we

00:04:31.720 don't do that? It's so asinine. It's like him also saying, we're going to help Alberta decarbonize. 0.98

00:04:38.060 Dude, Alberta is helping your province not go bankrupt. So settle down a little bit there.

00:04:43.260 BC is a debt basket case. And they're not going to be helping Alberta decarbonize through their

00:04:50.860 like green energy initiatives. It's going to probably cause BC to start having brownouts in

00:04:56.260 the near future if they keep pushing this green energy stuff and they don't invest in more oil

00:05:01.400 and gas infrastructure, bringing pipelines into the province so that there's greater access to energy.

00:05:06.860 What we're seeing is people who want to flee the United States and come to Canada. We want to 1.00

00:05:16.600 welcome them here. We want to stand strong as an independent and sovereign country. And I look

00:05:21.680 forward to working with the prime minister and all my colleagues across Canada on that.

00:05:25.140 Is the man delusional enough to actually believe that the flow of people between the US and BC

00:05:33.020 is mostly coming into BC? No, it's not. The BC government actually could lower taxes and bring

00:05:40.420 in more revenues in the medium term because it would maybe prevent so many people from just fleeing

00:05:45.780 into the US because they are taxed to death for terrible service, long wait times at ERs,

00:05:51.820 dangerous streets. Like no, people are not fleeing from the US to come into British Columbia.

00:05:57.340 People in BC are going to Alberta or somewhere else in Canada, or they're going to the US,

00:06:01.600 or maybe they're going home to a different country. My goodness. No, that's not true.

00:06:11.000 Number of supplemental.

00:06:13.140 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And there were no apologies made by me there. The premier says he supports

00:06:19.260 Team Canada, but has done nothing to address the greatest threats to our unity. Political interference

00:06:25.960 by the Chinese Communist Party. The fragmentation of BC by over 200 bans, each asserting its own

00:06:34.000 sovereignty. And the strangulation of our economy by powerful US funded environmental groups and other

00:06:41.700 hostile powers that are active in BC. British Columbians are losing hope, Mr. Speaker.

00:06:47.200 And so I ask again, will the premier engage in meaningful consultation with this critical group

00:06:53.240 of people in British Columbia? That is a very reasonable question. And in fact, it was a very

00:06:59.660 polite follow up to David Eby completely ducking the first part of our question. You're about to see

00:07:05.520 premier Eby explode over that follow up. That was perfectly reasonable. What have you done to actually

00:07:12.720 tackle the issues of CCP interference? One of his advisors was involved in CCP front groups. Goodness.

00:07:19.440 Like the band council issue is actually a problem. There are a lot of, there's a lot of land that has

00:07:25.600 not just sometimes one band that has jurisdiction over it, but multiple bands who have overlapping

00:07:31.560 jurisdiction over areas where we're trying to start mines or pipelines want to be laid down or that

00:07:37.640 you're trying to actually, you know, be able to put up housing. This just happened with the Haida Gwaii

00:07:41.820 where a bunch of housing units have basically been taken over by the band council simply because

00:07:47.120 if you built there and you weren't indigenous, you don't own your house. Even if you are indigenous,

00:07:51.000 you don't really own your house because the band owns it. This is actually a major issue in British

00:07:55.840 Columbia and it's not indigenous versus British Columbia. It's a really stupid legal system versus 0.99

00:08:01.080 everybody because it's not, it's not good for indigenous people at all. And they're now going to 1.00

00:08:06.340 pretend that Dallas Brody is racist for bringing this up. Even though, again, if there's somebody in this

00:08:11.440 room who actually cares about indigenous people and then prospering, it's definitely Dallas Brody 1.00

00:08:16.100 compared to David Eby.

00:08:19.740 Speaker, this member's incoherent and consistently racist posturing in this house against indigenous

00:08:25.640 and first nations that do in fact have rights and sovereignty in this province. 0.88

00:08:31.740 Racist. What was racist about that or anything else that she has said? He's just a punk. He's just,

00:08:38.600 he's just using innuendo to imply that she said something somewhere. Quote her then. Quote that

00:08:44.380 she said something wrong. What? She is literally just advocating that we don't have every single 0.99

00:08:50.340 project be held up by several advocacy groups, both environmental groups and indigenous groups

00:08:56.260 preventing actual economic growth from happening, for preventing prosperity from actually getting onto 0.97

00:09:02.860 indigenous land, because it is in fact these stupid land deals that are preventing anybody from 0.99

00:09:09.180 prospering in the province, including indigenous people. And he's going to say that's racist? 0.99

00:09:15.180 Shame on me. Honorable Speaker, her promotion of residential schools denial, her denial of the 1.00

00:09:21.420 sovereignty of First Nations and the rights of First Nations in this province continues now. It is disgusting. 0.96

00:09:26.860 What did she deny? Dallas Brody rightfully denied that there were not 215 dead children under the

00:09:35.760 Kamloops Residential School. It is such a clear cut fact that they have not found bodies. I don't know

00:09:40.960 why he wants there to be bodies there, but it's such a clear cut fact that when Rosemary Barton on the 1.00

00:09:46.740 CBC attacked Drea Humphrey from Rebel News on that issue, they then had to put out a correction because

00:09:53.340 it's absolutely wrong to say that bodies have been found. It's wrong, and they don't even want to dig

00:09:58.260 them up because they don't want to find out it's probably just a septic field. And guess what?

00:10:01.900 Obviously, residential schools can still be an overall bad thing, definitely. And you can still 1.00

00:10:07.260 factually say that, yes, there was not a big, like, genocide happening there. That's obviously true. And the

00:10:13.420 thing is, what it's being used for, what the residential school body issue is being used for, is a

00:10:18.320 catalyst to get people to not question. That when a bad land deal is being signed, what are you trying

00:10:23.860 to dump on the history, on the legacy of those children? That is actually how cynically it is used

00:10:31.840 in the province of British Columbia. If you disagree with an obviously bad land deal, you might be

00:10:38.860 somehow besmirching dead children. It's ridiculous. And this has actually been said by the federal 0.99

00:10:44.740 government, that as soon as that Kamloops situation started, they said that previous deals that they

00:10:50.660 were not going to sign, we should sign ASAP in light of the Kamloops situation.

00:10:55.220 And appalling, it advances us not one degree. Her denial of the sovereignty of First Nations

00:11:01.140 and the rights of First Nations in this province continues now. It is disgusting and appalling. 1.00

00:11:06.580 It advances us not one degree in growing our economy, in ensuring we're working with First Nations.

00:11:12.800 What it does do is it drives wedges. It reduces our growth. It reduces our prosperity. It hurts people

00:11:21.140 in real ways, making sure that jobs are not available. And so I asked the member to refrain

00:11:28.800 from her hateful rhetoric, to step back and reflect on the impact of her very real words as a leader in

00:11:36.600 the community. It is disgraceful. And I understand why people in her community have put up signs that

00:11:43.040 say she is not my MLA.

00:11:46.060 Wow. Hardcore NDP people put up a bunch of signs in her in her riding saying they don't like her. 1.00

00:11:51.800 Okay, she won like 60% of the vote. So get out of here. What's he even talking about? Oh, she's denying

00:11:57.500 the sovereignty of Indigenous people. Not at all. Not at all. The problem is, is having these wide 1.00

00:12:04.340 regions of land that a band council only representing about 250 people can just dictate whether or not

00:12:11.140 projects can go forward on them. It makes it impossible to operate in British Columbia. And

00:12:16.700 wanting this system changed is not racist. In fact, this system is what keeps a lot of Indigenous people 1.00

00:12:23.140 poor. Because even when there's projects on their land, or if anything happens, it's just owned

00:12:27.660 communally. It's basically a bunch of socialist states. And it's not a very good way of managing

00:12:33.060 anything. Here's, and the thing is, this is the same man who's been effectively helping systematically

00:12:39.160 poison the Indigenous community. Just dumping safe supply drugs all over the street, decriminalization, 1.00

00:12:45.060 not doing proper law enforcement in Indigenous communities. This is the man who's been making life 1.00

00:12:50.700 impossible for Indigenous people in this province. And then he's going to point fingers at Dallas

00:12:54.560 Brody, because she says, hey, maybe we should solve this problem. And he's saying, hey, hey, hey,

00:12:59.300 hey, we consider it racist to solve problems in the province of British Columbia. You get that right,

00:13:04.880 Dallas. It's so stupid. It's so stupid. I'm going to be covering British Columbia more in the coming 1.00

00:13:12.180 days as stuff starts heating up there, because there's a lot of stuff going on in BC these days.

00:13:17.280 I'm probably going to have some of these independent MLAs on the show. 1.00

00:13:22.020 I wish the BC Conservatives were doing any advocacy that Dallas Brody, Tara Armstrong,

00:13:27.240 and Jordan Keighley are doing right now. The BC Conservatives, for some reason, have been easily

00:13:31.840 cowed into just doing whatever the BC NDP wants to do. They never even showed up to oppose a bunch of

00:13:38.760 these authoritarian bills like Bill 7 that the NDP were putting forward. They will not oppose any of

00:13:43.940 these crazy land deals. They'll only talk about like SOGI drugs. SOGI kind of, not even. They don't

00:13:49.920 even really talk about it fully. They kind of talk about SOGI. They kind of oppose drugs. And I guess

00:13:55.320 they call out bad spending and inefficient services in BC. But that's it. That's it. The corruption goes

00:14:01.120 a little bit deeper than just the efficiency of the provincial government. But anyways, so that's it for

00:14:07.240 me today in this video, guys. Make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment,

00:14:11.680 do all that fantastic stuff, and I will see you tomorrow.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 04, 2025

David Eby EXPLODES over question about BC separatism support

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