Disaster： Another Canadian premier running anti-Trump ads in USA!
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Summary
Wyatt Clunock talks about Doug Ford's anti-Trump ads, David Eby's plan to run his own ad campaign, and why he thinks it's a good idea. Plus, the latest in the trade war between Canada and the United States.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. You will not be shocked to hear that another Canadian politician
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is deliberately failing just to try and take a shot at Donald Trump. So last week, we had to
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deal with Ontario Premier Doug Ford running these ads quoting Ronald Reagan to try and go after
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Donald Trump for his tariffs. Now, I don't like the tariffs. Also, this was an obviously stupid
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move. In the video I made on it, I accidentally said they cost $75,000. I meant $75 million.
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So we paid $75 million helping subsidize the American advertising industry to get nothing
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done. But then Trump slapped another 10% tariff on us and said he's going to walk away from the
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negotiating table with Canada. Now, people are saying, well, he's just doing that cynically.
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Okay, who cares? He did it. And you gave him an excuse to do it. The whole point is that
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Trump wants the excuse so that other countries don't think he might do it to them because,
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hey, they're not running around Ronald Reagan ads. He knows that he's just poking at Canada
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to try and get more concessions because we're not negotiating properly. We don't put anything
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on the table in terms of demands. We don't make any concessions saying we will do this,
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but you have to do this. We don't make any threats. We don't do anything. That's really
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been the main leak that's been coming out of the negotiations that the Canadian officials
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can't negotiate. Dominic LeBlanc and Melanie Jolie can't offer anything because Mark Carney
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has basically drawn lines around things that they're allowed to talk about and things they're
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not allowed to talk about. And you can't negotiate with having all of these red lines where you can't
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talk about, you know, the, what is it, supply management. You can't talk about other duties
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that Canada has in our economy and other restrictions to American media and whatnot in our economy.
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Obviously, you're not going to get anywhere when you're not letting your own trade representatives
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go anywhere with the conversation. But we ended up having Ford today discuss the fact that he
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actually had cleared his ads with Mark Carney's people before he ran them. And then later on,
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we're going to get into David Eby, the premier of British Columbia, planning on running his own ads.
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Can you talk to the prime minister about this and what, what's, I mean, he was, he's, he was pretty
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measured in, in Malaysia today about you and about this situation. But have you, what power relations
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with the prime minister, are things strange now because of what's happened?
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No, not at all. He saw the ad before I put it out. So it is chief of staff. They both saw it and
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we move forward on it. But again, we achieved our goal. You know, as we say, mission accomplished,
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it was done. They're talking about it in the US. And they weren't talking about it before I put the
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ad on. So I'm glad that Ronald Reagan was. We have a commission accomplished. We got their
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attention. Did it really cost $75 million to get their attention? You're not going to sway any
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Americans opinions. Because as soon as the government Ontario symbol comes up to the very end of the ad,
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it's like, oh, this is Canada doing something. Nobody cares. But now let's jump over to Mr.
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Eby, who also wants to get in on this action for some reason, because I guess that he sees how
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unpopular John Rustad is, and he's going to try and make himself as unpopular as fast as possible.
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So as Mark Nixon had highlighted a couple days ago, Doug Ford humiliates Canada. Trump shuts down
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negotiations, David Eby, hold my beer. It's like these guys are competing to see who can destroy
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Canada faster. And that is over top of the headline, BC to unveil its own digital campaign
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directed at an American audience. Now, I was literally at a press conference just earlier
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today, because I work at the BC legislature for 1BC. I was at the press conference that they were
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holding on crime and bail issues with the federal attorney general, Sean Frazier, and another liberal
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MP. And some media had asked David Eby about his planned ad campaign. And what I found very telling
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is he was being rather coy about the ad campaign, because he's standing next to two federal liberals.
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And if he comes out too strongly and says, absolutely, we're going to do it, it's going to start
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tomorrow. These two guys are kind of obligated to be like, yeah, David, can you not do that?
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So he kind of acted coy. I'm like, well, you know, we supported Ford's ads. And I think that
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Americans need more information about what tariffs are doing and blah, blah, blah. But now he's going
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to go for it. He's going to go for it anyways, as was highlighted by Rob Shaw here, who was at the
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press conference as well, of course. And he says, David Eby says he intends to follow through with his
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ad campaign targeting the United States, despite Trump's reaction to Ontario's ads, says it's
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absolutely essential for Americans to hear about BC softwood lumber, has also asked related Ottawa
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ministers for an emergency meeting. Now, this is all very hypocritical, because you know what other
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country has a lot of tariffs against Canada? China, specifically tariffs on canola oil and our seafood
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industry, which obviously affects not only the Maritimes, but British Columbia. Has David Eby
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drafted up any ads in Mandarin to run in China to let them know why what their government is doing
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is wrong? Well, no, because the BC NDP government is an ally of China. Frankly, our federal government
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is an ally of China. At this point, they save all their ire for the United States. All the elbows up
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rhetoric was about the United States. Nothing about China, who, you know, interferes in elections and
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whatnot. And this was highlighted by the one BC party leader Dallas Brody in question period just
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now. I'm bringing this to you guys like as live as I can get it. We had Dallas Brody stand up and
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go after them on this issue because of how hypocritical it is. Not only is it getting us
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absolutely nowhere, but it also is not actually targeted at the right country. So check this out.
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He criticizes Trump, but you know who the premier will never criticize? The dictator of communist China,
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Xi Jinping. China interferes in our elections, holds our citizens hostages, and has even imposed 100%
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tariffs on our canola and seafood sectors. Chinese tariffs have decimated BC businesses.
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But instead of retaliating and railing against China like he does with Trump, the premier rewarded
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our economic enemies in China with a multi-billion dollar BC ferries contract. Mr. Speaker, my question
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is for the premier. Since he's denouncing our biggest trade partner, the United States, will the premier
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also denounce communist China and its dictator, Xi Jinping? And now you are going to hear the limpest
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answer in your life. And by the way, that was the supplemental question that Dallas Brody had.
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She'd asked an opening question about why David Eby is putting our economy at risk in British Columbia,
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basically for the sole purpose of just making Trump mad. Let's run some ads to make Trump mad. And
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that's basically the end goal is we're going to make a bad. And then we're going to get our own
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economy hurt. And in responding to both of these, premier David Eby would not stand up, even though
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whenever Dallas Brody or the house leader of the one BC sitting next to Dallas Brody there,
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Kara Armstrong, whenever they ask a question, they always go white hot after them saying, oh,
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you're racist, you're transphobic, you deny residential schools or whatever the smear is that week.
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They always get unhinged mad at the one BC MLAs. But when you ask this question,
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not only did the premier not stand up, but the person who did stand up, who previously had accused
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Dallas of being a racist, and he's like foaming at the mouth screaming, Ravi Kallon gets up and he's
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very, uh, he's very prim and proper. And well, you know, we believe that we need to educate Americans.
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Listen to this. It's so limp for all these people who always go so hot on the one BC MLAs.
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They start to get really coy when asked answering this question, because they are walking obviously in a
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minefield because the premier David Eby has put BC in a stupid position right now to satiate his own
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ego. Minister. Thank you, Honourable Speaker. We continue to make the case to our friends in the US
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that the tariffs on our forest sector are having a disproportionate impact not only on workers and
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families on our side of the border, but also across the border. He's saying this at the same time,
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the BC NDP have increased stumpage fees have restricted the amount of cutting that can be done
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by the logging industry. They've been beating the industry to death themselves well before Trump ever
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showed up on the scene. And they're going to try and cast aspersions at the US now because of all
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the effects. They act like all the negative effects started five minutes ago. They did not. And again,
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okay, we get that there is a problem with tariffs on softwood lumber. I don't like it. But why is he
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immediately dodging and won't talk about the seafood industry? I don't know why this member continues to
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deny that that impact is hurting families in our communities. It continues to hurt families in our
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communities. And so I think all of us should be standing up for forestry. I know because when I
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look across the way and I talk to colleagues across the way, they understand how important these jobs are
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to our communities, Honourable Speaker. And why don't you cut taxes, cut regulations, lower stumpage fees,
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all these things. I love how these people always talk about how important things are. And they won't
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do anything about it. They make speeches about it, but they don't actually do anything substantial to
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help the industry. And I don't want subsidies. The industry doesn't want subsidies. Just make it
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easier for them to actually run their own businesses and they're fine. But as soon as Trump popped up,
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they're like, oh my goodness, we can scapegoat every stupid thing we've done for the past eight years on
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Trump. We continue to make the case for all communities to lower trade barriers, Honourable Speaker. The
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Premier has made several trips to Asia to make sure that we can strengthen our trade opportunities.
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And on top of that, Honourable Speaker, we've committed to all of our partners across the country
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that we will do our part to make sure when their goods are coming to British Columbia that we help
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them find new markets as well, Honourable Speaker. So we're not going to apologize for fighting out for
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workers in British Columbia. I certainly hope that the members can turn their heads away from being so
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pro-Trump that they realize that they also represent people in this community.
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So where is the answer about China? He didn't even mention China because the NDP end up acting
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effectively as a partner organization of the CCP because the CCP can pretty much get away with
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whatever they want and the NDP will not mention them at all. Frankly, even the BC conservatives will
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barely mention them at all. The fairy issue a little bit because it's a safe issue. But if you go
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anywhere else with China, they very much start tiptoeing because everyone in British Columbia
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in the elite political class does not want the CCP, doesn't want the Chinese embassies to stop
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inviting them to the events. They want to be nice. They also have this frankly odd view that like
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Chinese people in British Columbia like the CCP. Yeah, you'll find some. The majority hate the CCP.
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So why are you acting like they're all like part of like the Red Guard? It's actually kind of gross
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the way that they treat Chinese British Columbians as if they may be like beholden to the CCP and you've
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got to be careful about criticizing them. No, in fact, they will not vote for a party that will not
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criticize them. Anyways, what was David Eby doing when he went to Asia? Because I find this all kind
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of ridiculous. I'm going to go on to their Facebook just to show it to you guys. So did he go to China
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and stick his finger in Xi Jinping's face and let him know, hey, you're not going to tariff our
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industry? Well, no, but you went to Japan to go look at a bag of chips, literally.
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Hey, it's David Eby. I'm here in Japan at a Japanese supermarket found hard by chips right out of
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Suri, BC and then real earth chocolates out of Pitt Meadows. We got the best food in the world and it's
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right here at just a regular store in Japan. And we're here to make sure more BC products end up
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on the shelf. Guys, I'm going to be really honest. If you have ever been to Japan, you can confirm
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that they're actually fairly xenophobic against non-Japanese products. Do I think that there are
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actually hard by chips and just normal Japanese convenience stores and grocery stores? No,
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I guarantee that they're not there. They actually have a very big consumer skepticism
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to potatoes grown outside of Japan. I think they probably just set up effectively a Potemkin
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village, a potato chip Potemkin village so that David Eby could pretend that where he's like growing
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economic ties with Japan. You probably found the one store that carried them just to make David happy.
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And that was it. But anyways, that should be it for this video, guys. I actually am going to be making
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another video because BC politics has been crazy. And we have new polling out that shows that one BC is
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in fact at 5%, even though we've only been really operating for about a couple months now.
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So it is already a fast rise. And it's not a party with like a known brand, like you took over
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something called the BC Conservatives or the BC Liberals or whatever. So naturally, people already
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select that option because they don't realize that it used to not be much of a thing. Because
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John Rustad always had the advantage of taking over a party called the BC Conservatives. And you know,
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people kind of want a conservative option. And when it's literally called conservative,
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it's easy to choose. Although Rustad's beating that brand to death right now. And so one BC,
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even though it doesn't have any prior name recognition, we are already actually converting
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a high amount of people who end up hearing about us. We also had this crazy thing the other day,
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and I'll have to cover it, where the BC legislature got very, very mad. All the MLAs, except for
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three others than the one BC MLAs. So we had Tara Armstrong, Dallas Brody, and then we had Jordan
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Keeley, the Independent. Then we had Harmon Bangu and Heather Maas. They were the only ones to vote
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on first reading in favor of a law to ban land acknowledgements from public institutions. The
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idea that you cannot deliver an anti-Canadian land acknowledgement on the public dime, especially
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with in schools, with school children who effectively can't say no in repeating your left-wing
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political mantra. But anyways, but that should be another video for another time. Thank you guys
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for watching. Check out one BC on Google. If you guys haven't watched, or you haven't joined the
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party yet, if you're in British Columbia, you don't have to join, but check it out, read the platform,
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see all that stuff. It is an actual serious party that's actually trying to grow, not like the PPC,
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or it's just a social media brand. We're going to be setting up EDAs and getting members out there
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and making sure if there was an election in a winnable riding that we will absolutely
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hit the doors to be able to try and win it. But anyways, with that all being said,
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thank you guys for watching, and I'll see you guys all later.