The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 12, 2024


David Eby's NDP government is falling apart (BC Conservatives make big polling gains)


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1,890

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British Columbia Premier David Eby seems to be finding every chance he gets to tick off British Columbia residents by saying and doing stupid things in order to get them to vote against his government. He's also been caught up in a corruption scandal involving a government contractor that's been stealing money from applicants to pay for green energy projects. And he's cracking down on anti-sex ed protests.

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00:00:00.000 It was just a couple of months ago that polls showed that British Columbia Premier David Eby and his NDP government were going to easily win re-election and not just get a big majority government, but potentially win every single seat except for maybe one or two.
00:00:16.440 They were stomping their competition, and it seems like from there, David Eby took his massive lead as a challenge to see how fast he could sink himself into the floor and lose to the British Columbia Conservatives, the BC Conservatives, who were effectively not even a party a year and a half ago, and now are within four points of the BC NDP.
00:00:38.520 Right now, the polling is breaking down 38% NDP, 34% BC Conservatives, BC United is at 16, and the BC Greens are at 11.
00:00:48.860 This is all happening because David Eby seems to be finding every single stupid thing to say and do in order to tick off British Columbia residents.
00:00:57.500 BC residents have been pretty okay with the NDP's agenda over the past six years, as long as they don't go too overboard.
00:01:04.820 And it's actually pretty easy not to go too overboard in BC because a lot of people have gotten used to how crazy the liberal and NDP governments have been in the past.
00:01:13.360 So you've got to do something truly absurd in order to actually start alienating voters who have gotten used to the clown show that often is the BC government.
00:01:22.260 And so David Eby, this week, in order to get this terrible poll result demonstrating that his government's falling apart and the BC Conservatives have a lot of momentum, he's decided to step on every rake he could.
00:01:33.580 As you might know, a couple of weeks ago, BC NDP Premier David Eby attacked Federal Conservative Party leader Pyro Polyev for simply asking him to join his Axe the Tax movement and get rid of British Columbia's carbon tax.
00:01:47.860 A carbon tax that only has 29% approval or at least 29% of people wanting to keep it in place in BC.
00:01:55.400 He attacked Pyro Polyev saying that his movement was a massive baloney factory and that he actually deals with real problems unlike Pyro Polyev.
00:02:04.120 Just dismissive nonsense at the time when the vast majority of Canadians want massive spending and tax reform in government.
00:02:11.260 And then what we then saw was British Columbia Premier David Eby then generating a new scandal from his government by having the accounting firm that was handing out green energy grants just also effectively pilfering money from those applying by forcing them to use their own like grant writing services in order to be able to basically take a bunch of more money from the people who are getting these applications.
00:02:37.360 Those accounting firm is getting a bunch of government handouts. The BC NDP should know that this is what's going on because this is happening directly inside of their government.
00:02:46.420 It's a contractor, but a contractor they're working closely with.
00:02:49.820 They should not be confused by this.
00:02:51.780 And the person blowing the whistle on this issue had informed the BC government and David Eby just assumed he was untouchable so he didn't do anything about it, basically making himself a co-conspirator in this corruption issue.
00:03:04.660 And then, just today, he has made it illegal for anti-SOGI-123 protests to take place near British Columbia schools.
00:03:13.820 People protesting SOGI-123 are effectively protesting one of the most sexualized and, frankly, disgusting sex ed curriculums that's ever been put in any school system in North America.
00:03:24.780 And he's decided that not only is he going to defend SOGI-123, he's now going to crack down on people's civil liberties for even criticizing it.
00:03:34.600 Are the protesters doing anything illegal? Are they threatening anyone? Are they doing anything actually legally wrong?
00:03:40.880 No, David Eby just doesn't like them.
00:03:44.100 This is why this person is going to lose.
00:03:45.720 And this is on top of the drug scandals of BC drug gangs smuggling the safe supply drugs that British Columbia is handing out into Alberta and then him basically being dismissive to Alberta Premier Daniel Smith when she brings this up to him.
00:04:00.320 He's just acting like a nasty individual.
00:04:03.220 It's like a student union president somehow became the British Columbia Premier.
00:04:08.240 David Eby is just deeply out of touch with people.
00:04:10.740 And remember, this poll that put them in within four points, it's not an outlier anymore.
00:04:14.920 This is from liaison research, and this is following in the footsteps of Main Street research, which a couple weeks ago put the Conservatives within six points, and Main Street in a month before that put them within eight points.
00:04:27.140 This is an ongoing trend.
00:04:29.900 The only pollsters still showing the NDP doing well are like Leger.
00:04:33.700 And the problem with Leger is they have a bias for a lot of urban voters.
00:04:37.940 So when they poll Metro Vancouver, you're not getting as many people from Burnaby and outside suburbs of Vancouver.
00:04:44.000 They tend to get a lot of people who are office workers downtown Vancouver who are natural NDP voters.
00:04:50.300 This is the problem when you don't do good sampling for your polls is that you call people in the middle of the day, and those people are disproportionately going to be white-collar, upper-middle-class office workers who tend to have very progressive views on politics.
00:05:02.600 You're not going to get a lot of plumbers, a lot of tradespeople, small business owners who don't have the time of day to take a polling call and tend to vote conservative.
00:05:10.280 You've got to do better sampling if you want to be able to reach those sort of people.
00:05:13.980 And so David Eby is probably just going to keep pretending that he's dominating at the same time.
00:05:18.940 He's now turning all this fire on the BC Conservatives, who have two MLAs.
00:05:22.620 They have two MLAs.
00:05:24.500 And he's acting like they're just a dismissive force that people shouldn't be taking seriously.
00:05:28.980 At the same time, not only are they ripping away all the voters from the BC United Party, which is just a defunct party at this point.
00:05:35.860 I don't even need to debunk the idea that the BC United is not a serious force anymore.
00:05:40.740 They've changed their name from the BC Liberals, their brand was so bad.
00:05:43.600 And they've changed their brand from at least something recognizable to something that nobody recognizes and everyone still doesn't like the party once they figure out who it is.
00:05:51.740 But with the BC Conservatives, they're also ripping away NDP voters because David Eby has decided that working class people are gross and he doesn't want to talk to them.
00:06:01.820 And he wants upper middle class progressives who support safe supply, who support SOGI123, who want the carbon tax to be as preventably as, not preventably, but as crazy skyrocketing high as possible.
00:06:15.940 Because they care about the environment more than they care about middle, lower class people who do not have the ability to pay for all this stuff.
00:06:23.460 The man is going to lose.
00:06:24.920 Even as NDP and like a Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu is running away from the Liberals.
00:06:30.540 For some reason, David Eby is like tying himself to Justin Trudeau for no reason.
00:06:35.140 It's a complete own goal.
00:06:36.500 This is why I'm saying it's like David Eby's trying to lose.
00:06:39.860 It's like he will only tie himself to a policy that has below 30% approval.
00:06:45.300 Safe supply, the carbon tax, his crazy restrictive building policies in the province, crazy high immigration, which, you know, that might be a federal policy, but he's one of the main supporters of saying just bring more of it in here.
00:06:57.360 And he's also just not enforcing the law at all.
00:06:59.980 There's a reason why stabbing attacks, drug-related crime is way up in Vancouver.
00:07:04.880 Car theft is up like 60%.
00:07:06.660 Not going to do anything about it.
00:07:08.320 He doesn't care.
00:07:09.260 And even if the bail laws are bad on a federal level, he just doesn't do anything for the police.
00:07:13.840 He's completely worthless.
00:07:15.560 If you're in British Columbia, I beg you, please vote for the BC Conservatives.
00:07:20.800 Because even if I don't live in your province, I want as many provinces to have rational governments as possible.
00:07:26.700 It affects the rest of the country if there are crazy governments in certain parts of Canada who are making crazy ideas more normal.
00:07:34.120 That's how you got a David Eby in the first place.
00:07:36.440 It was the slow march towards progressive ruination.
00:07:39.840 And David Eby is just the logical conclusion of things that Gordon Campbell, Christy Clark, and then John Horgan did.
00:07:45.940 We need to actually not just get to a better, like a past status quo that wasn't as bad.
00:07:51.820 Like, don't bring BC back to what it was 10 years ago.
00:07:55.020 You got to make a new, better status quo.
00:07:57.680 And I hope John Rusted and the BC Conservatives do that.
00:08:00.760 Do not vote for the BC United.
00:08:02.320 They will not win.
00:08:03.280 They have no ability to win.
00:08:04.920 They are a dying party.
00:08:06.240 And the only reason they have any polling left over is because when they get polled, pollsters mention that they are the former Liberal Party.
00:08:13.280 And through sheer name recognition and people assuming that they're the main opposition to the MVP, people still pick them.
00:08:19.200 In five months, it's going to be probably the BC Conservatives at 38%, 42%.
00:08:24.040 Go BC Conservatives no matter what part of the country you're living in, and you'll actually potentially get a good government.
00:08:29.520 Not some lukewarm, half-conservative government like the BC Liberals sort of represented in the past.
00:08:35.660 You need, like, full-fat conservatism if you want to pull out of this tailspin.
00:08:39.940 Every province eventually needs the reformer who guts all the spending and makes sure to get the province back on the right track.
00:08:46.760 You guys need to go through your Ralph Klein phase.
00:08:49.260 And I believe that John Rusted would be a good transformative Ralph Klein figure for you guys.
00:08:54.640 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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00:09:54.920 Have a good one.