The BC NDP has a new ad attacking the BC Tory candidate, John Rustad, for being a "career politician" who has been in politics for a while. This ad is weak and pathetic and I don't get it.
00:00:00.000To put it mildly, things have not been going well in the British Columbia provincial election for Premier David Eby and his BC NDP party.
00:00:09.120They have no real accomplishments to run on. Everything has gotten worse since the NDP took power in 2017.
00:00:16.720They have tons of scandals, including crack pipe vending machines and rampant anti-Semitism.
00:00:22.660And the BC conservatives are very much on the ascent in the polls.
00:00:26.600So the BC NDP's new strategy is saying that John Rusted's a career politician or something.
00:00:34.180I don't get it. We have a massive opioid crisis in BC.
00:00:38.520We are the capital of the opioid crisis in North America.
00:00:42.960And yet we have the BC NDP thinking that a bunch of voters are going to reject the conservatives and come back home to the BC NDP because John Rusted has been in office for a while.
00:00:55.060Well, who cares? David Eby himself is a professional, useless person.
00:01:00.580He's never had a real job in his life.
00:01:03.040He's been an activist and he still is an activist.
00:01:06.160He is the protester in the Premier's office.
00:01:09.020The man would be more comfortable at a Columbia University occupation by all the Palestinian crazies than he would be at a business meeting.
00:01:33.620But before I do that, I just quickly want to plug the fact that in Abbotsford South here, we are holding a fundraiser on September 10th, 7 p.m.
00:01:44.160I have tickets available in the description below.
00:01:47.220I'll be at that event if you guys want to come by and say hi.
00:01:50.180We need to do as much fundraising as possible to ensure that we can beat the BC NDP.
00:01:54.960If you can't show up to it, you can still donate to the BC Conservatives for Abbotsford South.
00:02:01.620We're going to try and take as much money as we can and distribute cash to the ridings that need it that we can oust NDP incumbents in.
00:02:09.660Again, everything's going very well in Abbotsford South, but we basically are just the distribution point for funds for the entire Fraser Valley.
00:02:16.900So if you want to come and say hi, show up to the Abbotsford South fundraiser.
00:02:21.120You don't have to be in the riding to show up and hang out and whatnot.
00:02:58.000A home is like $1.3 million on average in British Columbia.
00:03:03.320And you're going to look at me and say John Rustad is a big risk because I don't know.
00:03:08.440I guess he was in favor of tolls at one point.
00:03:11.640Something that's not even that bad of an idea when you're trying to bring in money into the provincial coffers without just raising income taxes.
00:03:20.520But yeah, this is just pathetic and weak.
00:03:22.560But let's get to the video right here.
00:03:23.880It's even worse when they try and make this sort of personal appeal where they have the average Joe sitting there and telling you that John Rustad is just not a good guy.
00:03:34.620John Rustad came from the B.C. Liberal Party and of course now B.C. United Party.
00:03:39.460You know, these were times when people had to pay a toll to come in from Surrey, to come to Vancouver.
00:04:01.280What an indignity that you had to pay a toll to get on some faster roads.
00:04:06.460OK, I don't really see what the point here is when, again, people can't afford their rent, groceries and taxes have never been higher.
00:04:14.940And you're going to, like, you know, look down your nose at John Rustad when he was a liberal MLA being in favor of tolls comes from the old B.C. Liberal elite.
00:04:24.760So I'm assuming it will be a very developer focused.
00:04:27.840We'll get these luxury one bedroom condos everywhere made to sell to investors and offer families to live.
00:04:41.520I don't know who this is meant to appeal to.
00:04:43.920That last guy saying, well, John Rustad, I think he's going to be very developers focused.
00:04:49.140This is just really socialists talking that you're scared of the fact that John Rustad might make it easier for developers to build buildings.
00:05:00.180David Eby's approach of not building anything hasn't been working.
00:05:04.000So maybe we should try and cut taxes and make it easier for developers to actually build things.
00:05:09.540Environmental regulations are actually the secret biggest issue right now with building permits in British Columbia.
00:05:16.460It takes an average of three years to get a building permit approved because of just all the hoops and gyrations you have to jump through.
00:05:23.540All of the extra taxes on you building anything, all the idle time waiting for inspectors to look over your foundations and whatnot and all of the environmental checks that make it take forever to build something.
00:05:36.840And now the NDP, they want to put it in place like rent controls and all these other supply controls to make it so that a small group of people who are having a hard time getting a home can get that home while everyone else has to suffer even more.
00:05:51.620Every time you put price controls into place, it benefits a select few and hurts everybody else.
00:05:57.420But that's the NDP solution to everything.
00:06:00.000How about we sacrifice three people to benefit one person and then hope that one person keeps voting for us to keep us in power?
00:06:08.580And just I don't think this is actually going to help them at all.
00:06:11.660I don't see where the attack line is here.
00:06:15.120That's actually going to make a middle class person who's struggling say, you know, driving home late at night on election day.
00:06:21.920You know, I could just go home, pop on a movie, but, you know, dang it, John Rusted's a career politician, so I'm going to pull over and vote for David Eby.
00:07:28.320It tends to skew more to downtown office workers who are more likely to vote NDP than Conservative.
00:07:34.200And even in these polls, the Conservatives are still winning.
00:07:37.360I actually just want to pull this up on screen.
00:07:39.120Sheree Attiste even ballparked this race, and he currently has, with the new polls taken into account, the Conservatives winning a majority by a couple of seats.
00:07:47.300I think that can expand a little bit more into the future.
00:07:50.620But the thing is that the Conservatives are going to probably have a massively bigger turnout than the NDP, even if we are to believe the polling numbers.
00:07:58.900And it's not that you shouldn't believe the polling numbers.
00:08:00.900It's just that they can be sometimes a little bit flawed.
00:08:02.880There's a lot of low propensity voters that are going to come out for the Conservatives.
00:08:07.220I just yesterday was talking to a restaurant owner who says that their father has never voted in his entire life, but he's going to vote in this election because he hates David Eby.
00:08:17.480Because David Eby is so bad, he is willing to vote even though he doesn't really believe voting usually works.
00:08:25.440There's a lot of people who work, you know, trades jobs, who work sort of jobs where at the end of the day they're too tired to vote, they don't care.
00:08:59.780And election campaigns very much are about narratives.
00:09:03.820In 2015, Stephen Harper lost because frankly, he had a bad narrative.
00:09:11.740Even though Stephen Harper is miles better of a prime minister than Justin Trudeau, his narrative was a vote for me because Justin Trudeau isn't good.
00:09:34.120We're going to have more momentum in the economy because we're going to make investments from the governmental level, which doesn't work.
00:09:39.040But to the average voter roll, that sounds better than Stephen Harper there sort of saying, well, you know, we've been accomplishing good work and you should vote for us because Justin Trudeau is just not ready.
00:09:50.100In this election in 2024 in British Columbia, the change narrative is on the side of the conservatives that we can stop doing things as business as usual in B.C.
00:10:01.200We can stop with these far left woke policies and get back to letting you live your life and getting the government to leave you alone, to stop handing out safe supply drugs, to stop taxing you so much, to actually arrest criminals, all of this other stuff.
00:10:16.260But that is more compelling than let's just keep the money flowing into these failed programs because, you know, it would be rude not to, which is effectively what David Eby is saying.
00:10:28.800Anyways, well, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:10:31.820I'll have more B.C. election updates as I'm going here.
00:10:34.700Obviously, I'm working for the B.C. conservatives trying to make sure we get rid of the NDP here.
00:10:39.400So, again, if you're anywhere close to Abbotsford, think about coming to the fundraiser on September 10th.
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00:10:52.360You can, you know, grab some Greek food or whatever, all that stuff.
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