The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 20, 2025


David Eby looks nervous answering for his CCP connections!


Episode Stats

Length

14 minutes

Words per Minute

173.73692

Word Count

2,602

Sentence Count

144

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

A question from an independent MLA in Kelowna, BC, puts Premier David Eby on his heels. She asks the question that finally got him to finally get up and answer it. And it's a question that will have him kicking himself out of his own party.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. For any of you still waiting for my story about my time in
00:00:06.460 Victoria last week, that video should be coming out tomorrow. That story keeps developing further
00:00:12.260 and further, so I've been putting it off. I got attacked by a bunch of woke MLAs despite just
00:00:17.640 being a staff member and it just being my first few days on the job. And when I say woke MLAs,
00:00:23.360 I am not talking about the NDP. I am in fact talking about MLAs from the BC Conservative
00:00:29.280 Party. Most of the people in that caucus are conservatives, but the agenda and what is
00:00:35.080 allowed to be said is being controlled by John Rustad, his terrible overpaid HQ team, and a few
00:00:42.040 of the woke MLAs who have basically cowed everyone else into shutting up and following their lead.
00:00:47.860 But today, we will be talking about a great question from one of the independent MLAs
00:00:53.420 that really put David Eby, the Premier of BC, on his heels because he knows what she's saying
00:01:00.500 here is true. Of course, I am talking about the MLA from Kelowna, Tara Armstrong, who got up in the
00:01:07.540 legislature last week to ask David Eby about his CCP connections in the party. The Chinese Communist
00:01:14.020 Party very clearly tries to infiltrate both governments and political parties, and one of the main ones
00:01:20.240 they've targeted in Canada is the British Columbia New Democratic Party. Take a look at this.
00:01:32.760 Member for Kelowna Lake Country.
00:01:35.480 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Reports by investigative journalist Sam Cooper and others suggest that state actors in China are
00:01:47.000 collaborating with transnational organized crime syndicates to use Canadian banks and Vancouver real
00:01:55.000 estate to launder the proceeds of crime.
00:01:59.640 This has resulted in highly inflated BC housing prices and has fueled the production and distribution
00:02:08.040 of fentanyl within BC and far beyond.
00:02:11.320 My question to the Premier himself is this. Has he been advised officially or unofficially of any known
00:02:22.320 or suspected state actor influence within his party?
00:02:31.880 Now, I'm actually going to be skipping the initial response to what Tara said, because I believe it's like
00:02:38.860 the public safety minister and like the house leader Gary Begg gets up and he just talks about how we're doing a
00:02:45.340 really good job trying to crack down on fentanyl in the province, and they're not. It's just a complete deflection.
00:02:50.680 So I'm going to go over to her supplemental statement in just a second, but I just want to tell a mini story.
00:02:56.000 So when I was at the ledge, I was present for this question, and I was sitting up in the gallery with the rest of the independent
00:03:02.620 MLA team. The other, of course, the other MLAs who are independents, Jordan Keighley and Dallas Brody, were sitting in the
00:03:09.100 house, but like the staff who are for the independents were all sitting up in the, in the sort of a gallery.
00:03:15.100 We had booked an area. And when she started asking that question, started talking about China, I'm not kidding you.
00:03:22.240 There was an NDP MLA who smiled really wide and looked up at us because I've been hearing this
00:03:30.680 particular MLA and a couple others hate David Eby's guts, and they were loving that this made him so
00:03:37.500 uncomfortable because now in the supplemental, you are going to see Tara Armstrong shame David Eby into
00:03:43.680 finally getting up and answering the question. And he effectively commits to kicking himself out of his
00:03:48.740 own party because there is no way that David Eby can actually with integrity remain in his party
00:03:55.620 based on what he says here. So check this out right here. By the way, we actually had some, a good
00:04:00.380 amount of conservative MLAs even banging their tables for Tara here, even though they have been told by
00:04:05.600 John Rustad and all the idiots who are running the BC conservative party HQ, that they are not allowed
00:04:10.340 to say anything positive that an independent says, and they are not allowed to like clap or show any
00:04:15.440 approval for their questions in the house or any of their statements.
00:04:18.740 Which is really funny because now John Rustad is just copying everything Dallas Brody says online
00:04:24.060 because she's actually popular and he's pretending to believe the same things she does, even though
00:04:29.440 he was the one who kicked her out of caucus. John Rustad is the master of leading from behind.
00:04:35.100 And right now, he is quite literally leading from behind the lady he kicked out of caucus.
00:04:40.680 You can't make this stuff up. But here is the supplemental from Tara Armstrong, and then I'm going to let it
00:04:46.560 play through for David Eby's very nervous answer.
00:04:49.880 With all due respect, the question was for the Premier, and it was referenced to foreign influence
00:04:56.100 within his party. The Premier must be aware that the United Front Workforce Department was identified
00:05:03.880 in the Canadian inquiry into election interference as a CCP affiliate that has active influence operations
00:05:12.440 targeting politicians within Canada and also right here in British Columbia.
00:05:18.760 Last year in a press conference, reports surfaced that Ding Guo, an advisor to the Premier,
00:05:26.440 had attended a meeting with officials of this group.
00:05:30.080 Would the Premier himself please describe his relationship with Mr. Guo and explain why he approved a grant
00:05:38.440 of $20,000 to his organization?
00:05:44.760 I gotta say, I do love the emphasis that she puts on the words there about, like, the $20,000.
00:05:50.520 He literally gave David Eby, and this has been verified. I'm going to show some stuff from Sam Cooper
00:05:54.320 in a little bit here. He gave $20,000 to one of his donors' CCP front groups.
00:06:01.760 This is a front group that he gave the money to. I believe it's, like, the Canada 100 Society
00:06:06.280 or whatever. I'll get the exact name a bit later. It doesn't really matter. But this is an obvious
00:06:09.800 CCP front group, a United Front Work Department organization. And he gave $20,000 of BC taxpayer
00:06:18.360 money to it. And then he lets this guy advise him on Chinese issues.
00:06:24.360 Mr. Premier.
00:06:25.480 Thank you, Honorable Speaker.
00:06:26.600 The member asks whether I've been advised about Ding Guo or any other individual in our party
00:06:33.000 being the target of foreign interference. Now, I have repeatedly asked the federal government
00:06:41.480 and CSIS for the full authority to be briefed on any concerns related to any issues that I should know
00:06:49.560 about as Premier. It's been a long and frustrating journey. It's required amendments to the CSIS Act
00:06:54.760 federally that were finally made. I'd say that the briefings that I've received since then have been
00:06:59.560 only more frustrating.
00:07:02.680 So, to cut him off a little bit here, he is, one, just listen to his voice. I have heard him answer
00:07:08.440 questions from Tara Armstrong and Dallas Brody before, where he goes at them like guns blazing,
00:07:14.920 or his people go at them guns blazing. He called Dallas Brody a racist. It was like foaming at the
00:07:20.840 mouth because of her question about, effectively, separatism, the separatist sentiments rising in
00:07:28.840 British Columbia. And if he's going to do anything about it, and if he's going to get all these First
00:07:33.400 Nations consultations and environmental regulations out of the way so people feel like they can actually,
00:07:37.960 you know, economically prosper in this province without constantly having new projects bogged down
00:07:43.080 and whatnot. And he like freaked out or started calling her racist. And it's all, you're a conspiracy
00:07:47.480 theorist, you're a denier. Tara Armstrong asked the government if they can define what a woman is.
00:07:52.360 And Nikki Sharma like lit her hair on fire and started like screeching about how she's transphobic.
00:07:56.600 It was insane. And here he's very, very subdued. He's just, just talking in a very subdued voice
00:08:03.320 because he's obviously in the wrong. It's an uncomfortable subject for him. Like, I don't
00:08:08.120 exactly fully believe in body language expertise, but they'd be having a field day looking at what this
00:08:14.360 guy's time, like looking at this tape of David Eby. The man is now trying to blame the federal
00:08:19.080 government and CSIS for the fact that he's obviously engaging with CCP front groups and
00:08:24.760 giving them money, the most obvious CCP front groups, because they've already been reported
00:08:29.320 on as CCP front groups by people like Sam Cooper at the bureau.ca. You know, so I'll let him keep
00:08:35.240 going. But he's basically just saying, well, it's not my fault if I'm engaging in the CCP front group.
00:08:40.280 It's the, it's, it's, it's Trudeau and now Mark Carney's fault and, and, and the CSIS somehow.
00:08:46.360 Um, if I received any information about any member of our party who was, uh, facilitating
00:08:53.080 foreign interference, I would immediately remove that individual. If we were having interactions
00:08:58.600 with individuals that, uh, CSIS advised me, uh, were attempting to promote foreign interference,
00:09:04.760 we would cease any and all contact with those individuals. And we would cooperate with any
00:09:09.080 investigation that was required by that assurance to you and to the entire house. Thank you,
00:09:13.640 honorable speaker. Yeah. Um, so the problem with that is it was already public knowledge
00:09:21.320 who people like Ding Guo were when he was attending events where Ding Guo was when he was giving money
00:09:27.560 to the Canada 100 club that he runs. This was all stuff that was very easy, like was very easily
00:09:34.120 researchable and he was still hanging out with them. So is David Eby now going to kick himself
00:09:38.440 out of the NDP? Because based on what he just said, he has to. Here is a Sam Cooper reacting to
00:09:45.720 Tara Armstrong's question. He says, good question. And based on my open source documentation reports,
00:09:51.720 quote, would the premier please explain his relationship, unquote, with a community advisor,
00:09:57.000 paraphrasing this, who has met with the UFWD. Uh, I will include my report in the thread to good,
00:10:03.560 uh, thread good research also by, you know, these two other people. And he shows like,
00:10:08.200 even just at the start of this article, you don't even need to read it. He is literally at
00:10:12.680 these front group events. These are obvious CCP front groups. There has been, uh, there's a,
00:10:19.640 there are obvious signs in the Hogue report that people like David Eby and people like Trudeau
00:10:25.880 and ministers in the liberal government, as well as in the provincial government, BC,
00:10:29.480 just were openly hanging out with these people after there was red flags raised about them
00:10:34.040 publicly by people like Sam Cooper, the media by CSIS, CSIS, literally in the Hogue report,
00:10:40.040 which the Hogue report was trying to brush a lot of this under the bed, basically saying, oh,
00:10:44.360 not really that bad. Maybe these people are just so stupid. They don't realize that when we told
00:10:48.840 them it's a CCP front group, it wasn't really a CCP front group. This is all obvious garbage.
00:10:55.480 Like David Eby has to pretend to be stupid to not like, to not understand what's going on here.
00:11:01.720 And especially when someone's donating to you in large, large sums of money, like maxing up
00:11:07.320 donations to your party. And then they're demanding money or they they're getting money from your
00:11:12.200 government. There might be some, you don't just have like a normal relationship with this person.
00:11:16.360 You obviously know that they're more important than just some random guy, you know, like,
00:11:21.320 so Ding Guo runs Canada Committee 100 Society, and David Eby gave it $20,000. Well, Ding Guo and his
00:11:29.560 wife both gave him maxed out donations during his leadership campaign, where obviously the money
00:11:35.240 means far more than in a general election. And they're also they also have connections to a lot of
00:11:40.200 other Chinese CCP front groups, and a lot of other people involved in foreign interference,
00:11:45.880 like Victor Rowe and and Yuen Pah Wu, the two former senators. So yeah, I think
00:11:55.960 is still in the Senate, but this is all obvious. All these people have been passing him money and
00:12:01.080 getting favors in return. He cannot be ignorant because he is directly engaging with them. It's
00:12:07.240 not like he sees them in passing, they invite him to an event. No, he goes to their events,
00:12:11.480 they give him money, and he gives them money. How is you can't be ignorant. David Eby is obviously
00:12:18.280 basically a puppet or an asset of the CCP at this point, because he's fully captured. He's willing
00:12:23.640 to do what these sketchy people say. And why would he stop now? Other than maybe he's just trying to
00:12:28.440 avoid seeming too close to them. But I don't he's really cutting these relationships off because it's
00:12:33.160 probably how he got into office. And you can't exactly go back with the on the one that, you know,
00:12:37.480 brung you to the dance here. So this is all stuff that I'm going to be following up on in the future.
00:12:43.320 Tara Armstrong did a fantastic job there answering, asking that question. David Eby did a awful job
00:12:49.720 answering it. Again, look at the way he even answered the question. He's so nervous. He is
00:12:55.320 not comfortable with the question that is being asked. He got Gary Begg to like answer the first
00:13:00.680 part of the question, then was kind of shamed into answering the second part, basically cutting
00:13:04.920 Tara off from getting a follow up with David because he got the last word on that.
00:13:09.400 But it's so it's so clear. He obviously knows there's something here. He obviously knows he's
00:13:14.840 done something wrong. And by the way, the BC conservatives with 41 MLAs do not ask them
00:13:20.920 any questions about the CCP. They don't ask them any questions about the Chinese government putting
00:13:26.600 tariffs on Canadian goods. I have heard from a BC conservative MLA that John Rusted does not
00:13:32.600 want to tackle the CCP issue because, paraphrasing, we might want to work with the Chinese someday,
00:13:37.800 so we don't want to call them out too hard. What the heck? That's insane that you would. What?
00:13:43.160 So Canada's national security and our democratic, like the sanctity of our democracy is willing to,
00:13:49.880 we can compromise these things because we may want to work with the Chinese government one day.
00:13:54.840 Something John Rusted apparently deeply believes that China is more important than our own
00:14:00.360 foreign, like our security and economic security. Anyways, you can't make it up.
00:14:06.920 So that's it for this video, guys. I will be coming out tomorrow or the next day with my story of what
00:14:12.520 it was like to be in Victoria. I had MLAs attacking me for what I make because I do work for Tara Armstrong,
00:14:18.520 the independent MLA. I basically make nothing. I do it for fun almost. I do like politics in general.
00:14:24.280 But I was being attacked for what I make. I was being attacked for even just being employed by
00:14:29.320 them, which is hilarious because all these people used to share my content or rely on me for things.
00:14:34.680 They really hate me because they still love me and I'm just not working with them because most of
00:14:39.480 them or a lot of them are very deeply corrupt, so I refuse to. So then they get very mad at me because
00:14:44.440 they're like spurned or whatever. But I'm not a woke person, so I refuse to follow a party that is
00:14:49.320 being controlled by the woke faction. So yeah, that's it. Like this video, subscribe to the
00:14:55.320 channel, leave a comment. That's it for me today, guys. See you around.