The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 24, 2024


John Rustad demolishes dishonest CBC host in awful interview


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Wyatt Claypool is back in Calgary talking about the BC election and John Rustad's interview with the CBC News reporter who asked him questions about the election, and why he thinks the Tories are the most diverse party in BC.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, it's Wyatt Claypool here, back in Calgary after helping out in the BC provincial election for the Conservatives.
00:00:07.740 An election that we still don't know the winner of, because we have 49,000 mail-in ballots and provisional ballots left to count.
00:00:15.700 The good news is that there are two very tight ridings that the NDP are only barely leading in,
00:00:21.520 and the mail-in ballots look like they will be leaning towards the Conservatives.
00:00:25.300 So the Conservatives could either get a minority government or a majority government.
00:00:30.240 Yes, the NDP might still be able to hold their one-seat lead, but you never know.
00:00:35.140 In politics, absolutely anything can happen, and I guess there at least is some entertainment value in that.
00:00:41.500 But since I'm back in the nicer studio in Calgary and no longer sitting on that horrible black leather couch,
00:00:48.080 I want to talk a little bit more about BC politics.
00:00:50.660 And this interview with Conservative Party leader John Rustad is too hauntingly funny to watch.
00:00:58.200 This is hilarious.
00:00:59.600 John Rustad demolishes the CBC News interviewer.
00:01:02.940 I don't even know who this is.
00:01:04.060 I should honestly check who this is.
00:01:06.180 But this was just an awful interview.
00:01:09.060 This was just a knives-out interview from a legacy media journalist trying to score points
00:01:14.440 so that everyone in the fashionable, like, I guess, legacy media circles will give him a pat on the back.
00:01:20.660 This is a guy, I just got off the phone with someone today who said that the guy interviewing John Rustad here
00:01:25.120 truly sees himself as, like, Canadian 60 Minutes.
00:01:29.480 No, he's neutral, but he's hard-hitting.
00:01:32.040 Watch some of these answers, these questions and answers,
00:01:34.840 And tell me if this feels like a fair interview or this guy's just a partisan hack trying to get one over on John Rustad.
00:01:42.760 But John Rustad just fought in an entire provincial election campaign,
00:01:46.180 and he's probably at his sharpest right now and does not take any sort of nonsense from this terrible CBC interviewer.
00:01:54.020 I can't find his name, but I feel like it's not really worth knowing his name.
00:01:59.580 Three of four seats in Richmond.
00:02:01.240 What does that tell you?
00:02:02.040 Well, Richmond, you know, with both Richmond and Surrey,
00:02:05.640 really, when you look at what the Conservative vote representative represented,
00:02:10.340 it was pretty much, you know, rural BC, but also a lot of ethnic minorities,
00:02:15.380 whether it's Chinese Canadians or Indo-Canadians.
00:02:18.760 And so a lot of those groups came together and said, you know, they had enough,
00:02:23.020 whether it was the drugs and crime problems, whether it was SOGI that's going to our schools,
00:02:26.980 there's a lot of things that were driving people that wanted to see change.
00:02:29.880 Before we get to the CBC News host saying one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in my life,
00:02:35.020 I do want to just comment on what John Rustad just said there,
00:02:37.840 because it is quite funny that the Conservatives are truly the diverse party in British Columbia.
00:02:43.260 And I'm not just talking about, you know, ethnic diversity,
00:02:46.100 that we have a lot of South Asian and Indo-Canadian supporters.
00:02:50.140 Yeah, like we have a lot of Chinese and South Asian supporters.
00:02:52.840 But we actually have geographical diversity.
00:02:56.180 I saw this post someone made the other day saying that the rest of BC wants Vancouver to get its crap together,
00:03:02.140 which is kind of true.
00:03:03.440 The Conservatives only got one Vancouver riding unless things shake out with these mail-in ballots a little bit differently,
00:03:08.660 and we pick up Lingara.
00:03:10.080 But, you know, like, it is true that the thing is that the base of the BCNDP is very white,
00:03:17.340 has a lot of arts degrees, do not own property, tend to rent,
00:03:20.980 and they are very reliant on legacy media for their news.
00:03:24.560 But if you go outside of Vancouver, Conservative Party supporters are all kinds of people,
00:03:29.220 suburban, you know, tradespeople, business owners,
00:03:33.000 people who are living on lower incomes, upper income levels, everywhere.
00:03:37.320 Rural, you know, semi-rural, the Fraser Valley, farmers, you know, electricians, tradespeople,
00:03:43.920 everybody could be a Conservative,
00:03:45.620 where the NDP are actually a very narrow band of a type of voter,
00:03:50.020 and they just happen to have very good numbers in the right ridings to keep themselves whole.
00:03:55.360 Yes, they have slightly won the popular vote,
00:03:57.860 but that only really tells you that they have a lot of money,
00:04:00.400 so their turnout operation is much better funded than the BC Conservatives,
00:04:04.280 who, just based on election rules, were having to run their campaigns with, like, five bucks and a ham sandwich,
00:04:09.580 and they beat some of these incumbents who were maxing out their spending,
00:04:12.960 and some of these Conservatives who beat them were spending, like, a third of what they did.
00:04:16.500 It was crazy.
00:04:17.520 But here is the CBC host now trying to make a fool of himself in record time.
00:04:23.100 So, you, I mean, drugs and crime and SOGI are two ways to scare people, basically.
00:04:32.000 Well, I wouldn't say that, necessarily.
00:04:34.600 But parents are very concerned about their kids.
00:04:36.860 They're concerned about their own safety.
00:04:38.920 Sure, but is there anything to, but does, I don't want to get into it,
00:04:42.120 because we do every time, but really, is there anything to fear from SOGI?
00:04:46.020 Really?
00:04:47.020 Well, you know, when your six-year-old boy, his grandson, comes home and is sitting at the dinner table and saying,
00:04:53.080 you know, Grandpa, is it okay that I'm a boy?
00:04:55.160 At six years old, should they really be asking those questions?
00:04:57.440 Why not? Why wouldn't they ask a question?
00:04:58.700 Why not? Why not? Why should they?
00:05:01.960 This is leftist nihilism.
00:05:04.800 And throughout this entire interview, you will notice that this host is just full of nihilistic views on politics,
00:05:11.800 just cognitive dissonance all the way through.
00:05:14.340 When I say nihilism, he's just like, who cares?
00:05:17.320 And later on, he'll go on and say, well, it might be bad now, but this has always been a problem,
00:05:22.040 even though it's obviously way worse now.
00:05:23.800 He's just basically throwing his hands up in the air.
00:05:25.580 Who cares?
00:05:26.360 Because this guy truly just wants the NDP to have its toys in the sandbox and not the conservatives.
00:05:33.440 It doesn't matter if the conservatives might be right on the issues, know what they're talking about,
00:05:37.180 and they can make things better.
00:05:38.680 Well, shouldn't kids be talking about what gender they are at six years old?
00:05:42.800 No, they shouldn't. No, they shouldn't.
00:05:45.060 And this is a prime example of why South Asians in Surrey voted for the conservatives. 0.94
00:05:50.360 Yes, the NDP might have cleared more than half the ridings still,
00:05:53.360 but the problem is, again, that all the poll projections showed that the conservatives
00:05:57.260 shouldn't have had a chance at any of these Surrey ridings, at least outside of the South,
00:06:01.540 and they were clobbering them in the North.
00:06:03.700 They smashed the NDP education minister because her own community,
00:06:09.220 because she was a South Asian candidate herself, doesn't like SOGI.
00:06:12.580 And the thing is that they can tell you that they don't like it,
00:06:14.500 and I think that John Rustad has a great answer here,
00:06:16.780 when he basically pushes back on the idea that, well, who should care?
00:06:19.880 Well, the parents are telling you they care.
00:06:21.760 Well, that's a question I think that the electorate looks at and says,
00:06:25.480 you know, they don't find that acceptable.
00:06:26.980 When you look at also, quite frankly, the pornography that is in our schools.
00:06:30.480 There is no pornography involved in the SOGI program.
00:06:33.680 There is no pornography in the SOGI program,
00:06:35.840 and I don't want to go through this again because we go through it every time.
00:06:39.040 But let's...
00:06:39.480 It's almost like he's wrong every single time, and John has to correct you.
00:06:44.760 And what he's going to do here is this stupid bait and switch.
00:06:47.540 We're going to see it in real time.
00:06:49.080 The idea, oh, it's not happening.
00:06:51.180 Oh, well, it's not part of the curriculum.
00:06:53.100 Well, it's in libraries, but you don't have to...
00:06:55.140 So it's in libraries, and it's a mandated book that public schools must have.
00:06:59.220 These gender identity books, I forget what the actual names of them are.
00:07:03.880 But you shouldn't even...
00:07:04.640 Adults shouldn't look at these books.
00:07:06.540 You would think an adult was creepy for looking at this stuff,
00:07:10.260 and 10-year-olds can read it?
00:07:11.920 No, that's obviously insane.
00:07:14.020 That's why a lot of these socially conservative groups did not vote for the NDP,
00:07:19.280 or maybe only voted for them out of ignorance,
00:07:21.300 because there was a lot of BC NDP candidates in Surrey going around saying,
00:07:25.420 oh, of course I'm against SOGI, and they're going to now vote in favor of it again.
00:07:29.680 I could see actually some BC NDP candidates, some MLAs in Surrey, crossing the floor,
00:07:36.620 because if now the Conservatives force them to vote yay or nay on SOGI,
00:07:40.580 they're going to look like complete morons and liars in front of their communities
00:07:46.040 who they've reassured, oh, yeah, I think SOGI's gone too far,
00:07:49.340 and I'm going to do something about it.
00:07:50.620 Let's also talk about the crime and drug factor, too,
00:07:53.480 because you're in Richmond warning them against what you are calling drug dens.
00:07:58.080 There are no supervised consumption sites in Richmond.
00:08:01.600 So, first of all, let's actually show the books that are being made available in our schools on your...
00:08:07.440 Perfect thing John Rustad's doing, he's not letting this weasel, frankly,
00:08:11.440 try and sideskirt the issue, oh, we talk about it every time, and you're wrong.
00:08:14.880 He's just trying to project, hey, John's wrong, but let's move on to the next topic,
00:08:18.100 John's holding him in place and slowly beating him to death with the facts.
00:08:22.580 ...your television show, and let's see what kind of ratings you get with that.
00:08:25.560 That are being made available in our schools.
00:08:26.980 That are being made on your television show.
00:08:28.800 Let's show, let's actually show the books that are being made available in our schools
00:08:32.420 on your television show, and let's see what kind of ratings you get with that.
00:08:35.940 That are being made available in our schools.
00:08:37.380 That are being made available in our schools.
00:08:38.800 They're not part of a curriculum.
00:08:40.060 They came from the SOGI initiative, which is not a curriculum.
00:08:43.400 It is a philosophy that has been brought in schools.
00:08:45.940 But when it comes to, you know, what's going on in Richmond, there was there is housing units that are being put in where drug consumption is being allowed.
00:08:54.920 There was safe injection sites which were proposed to come into Richmond that we said, no, we will not allow that to happen.
00:09:01.160 Drug consumption takes place in every neighborhood in this province.
00:09:03.720 And another pivot from this guy just pivoting constantly.
00:09:08.420 John said, yes, there might be no safe injection site in Richmond, but there are a lot of these subsidized housing units for people who are addicts.
00:09:15.940 Who are allowed to smoke crack and use, inject drugs in these areas.
00:09:20.340 And it's creating a crime problem in these communities.
00:09:22.900 Well, no, no drug dens.
00:09:23.900 And now he's pivoting.
00:09:25.060 Again, the weasel himself is pivoting, saying, well, you know, people use drugs everywhere.
00:09:30.360 What a kind of nihilist are you to not be able to see the difference between people using drugs illegally in places that they shouldn't be using them.
00:09:39.800 And the government letting you use drugs in subsidized apartment buildings that just become drug sale centers.
00:09:47.080 That like we've heard in many of these like Canada's dying and Vancouver's dying documentaries, people who are trying to get clean.
00:09:53.580 And they are then like they're given apartment units in these housing, these housing like centers.
00:10:00.740 They get a they get a house or an apartment.
00:10:03.520 And like five minutes later, they get a knock on their door and their neighbor wants to sell them heroin.
00:10:07.680 And it's hard to stay off drugs when you're around people offering you drugs all the time.
00:10:13.540 Oh, my goodness.
00:10:15.280 This is this.
00:10:15.940 This is a prime.
00:10:17.020 This is an advertisement on why the CBC should be defunded.
00:10:20.580 In rich neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods all over this province, people are consuming drugs.
00:10:26.240 So talk to talk to the families that live in an area where one of these housing units have come in and ask them about what's happened with the drugs and the crime within their neighborhoods, particularly when it's close to a school or playground.
00:10:40.000 And take a look at these places.
00:10:41.300 So people should be afraid then is what you're saying.
00:10:43.120 People are afraid when you see the drugs and crime happening in the neighborhood.
00:10:46.460 Right.
00:10:47.100 You know, there's random.
00:10:48.160 What is that kind of thing?
00:10:49.320 So you're saying people should be afraid as if like Rustad's like wishing bad feelings on people and he's not describing the current state of things.
00:10:57.560 Random things going on.
00:10:58.700 You seem to think that it is OK for this to be happening everywhere in the province.
00:11:02.160 I do not believe that's true.
00:11:03.720 I and I don't believe it's I don't believe it's OK either.
00:11:06.800 But what I'm saying.
00:11:07.440 You're making excuses all over the place for it.
00:11:11.060 What?
00:11:12.040 What is this?
00:11:13.560 What is this?
00:11:14.260 This is the guy thinks he's 60 minutes, apparently.
00:11:16.780 What is this?
00:11:17.480 Just basically saying, well, the problem always has existed.
00:11:21.400 Ergo, we shouldn't even bother thinking of what's better.
00:11:25.180 I like the term better because I want things to be better.
00:11:28.340 This guy just thinks says, well, as long as one person's injecting drugs, that's basically like the East Hastings situation we have where it's turned into Shutter Island.
00:11:37.340 Saying is, you know, when people are looking at the the issues that they're dealing with on a day to day basis, blowing things out of proportion, taking single incidents that are terrible incidents and trying to turn those into the norm is not necessarily helpful.
00:11:53.260 The evidence shows that overall crime is down the evidence shows.
00:11:57.580 OK, I'm going to say I have my master's degree with a research paper specifically studying crime.
00:12:04.380 I hate this when people in the media say crimes down.
00:12:08.200 Crime is not down.
00:12:09.040 And John's about to actually add something I didn't even think of when I was initially listening to this and saying that the problem is that the police don't even log things as crimes anymore because they know that they're never going to get the charge because it's only often considered a crime once the charge is laid.
00:12:21.780 Right. And right now we have like we have record crime.
00:12:26.600 But if you take 24, 24 numbers and you line them up against 2023 numbers, oh, crime went down 4.5 percent.
00:12:33.700 OK, but for the past three or four years, it went up 5 percent, then 7 percent, then 10 percent.
00:12:38.880 Then it went down up by 2 percent and now came down by four.
00:12:41.880 But we're still way up from where we were 10 years ago.
00:12:45.020 That is the actual problem.
00:12:46.680 I hate this when people say crime went down 12 percent last year.
00:12:50.620 But it was but car thefts, the previous were up 40 percent.
00:12:54.460 So it's gone down 12 percent.
00:12:56.180 But that's but that still doesn't mean that we're back to where it was when it was not that big of a deal.
00:13:01.620 It is obviously a big deal.
00:13:02.940 And you can turn everything into an anecdote.
00:13:05.800 This guy got his hand chopped off in Vancouver or whatever city by like an addict with a machete.
00:13:11.440 Oh, that's an anecdote.
00:13:12.580 And we can we can turn thousands of these instances that happen every single year, people being assaulted, attacked or having their businesses shut down because they're just surrounded.
00:13:20.620 By addicts and they can't have normal customers come and patronize them anymore.
00:13:24.380 Well, that's an anecdote.
00:13:25.680 Everything's technically an anecdote.
00:13:27.080 If we make it an anecdote.
00:13:28.640 Goodness.
00:13:30.180 That stranger attacks are down.
00:13:32.520 The you know, the evidence shows.
00:13:35.040 Steven, I would challenge you on that.
00:13:36.600 And the reason why I would challenge you on is this.
00:13:38.560 Talk to the police about it.
00:13:40.300 And the police will tell you the crime is down overall.
00:13:42.680 That stranger attacks are down.
00:13:43.640 The police will tell you that it's down because they can't lay charges because there's no point.
00:13:47.740 Charges are not going through.
00:13:48.880 So many, many crimes are going without charges being laid.
00:13:52.640 There's a reason why, for example, Save on Foods has hired 345 security guards around the province.
00:13:59.200 And it's not because it's not because they suddenly think that they need those jobs because they've got problems.
00:14:04.720 They've got crime.
00:14:05.500 They've got drugs coming. 0.64
00:14:06.880 They've got the things stuff being stolen out of the stores.
00:14:09.720 Right.
00:14:09.880 Their staff are not feeling safe.
00:14:11.220 This is what is going on our cruise.
00:14:12.840 Talk to the small businesses.
00:14:14.460 Could it be because people can't afford to eat?
00:14:16.860 What is just like a goblin sitting here interviewing Rostad? 0.98
00:14:22.920 Maybe it's because people can't afford to eat.
00:14:26.960 Maybe that's why they're stealing.
00:14:28.340 That's not why people steal.
00:14:29.520 This was actually the specific subject of my master's research paper.
00:14:33.100 Crime drives poverty more than poverty drives crime.
00:14:37.020 There are neighborhoods in Toronto right beside each other pretty much.
00:14:40.600 Same type of infrastructure in the area.
00:14:42.280 Same type of mix of suburban and urban living options.
00:14:45.700 The area with a higher median income can sometimes have a six to seven times higher crime rate than the other one, even because the place with high crime has high amounts of single-parent households and low bachelor achievement rate, bachelor degree achievement rates.
00:15:01.760 It doesn't mean you need a bachelor's degree to succeed.
00:15:03.780 Obviously, trade degrees are great, but usually when it's only like 18% of people are getting a bachelor degree compared to the average in Toronto, 44%, that's usually telling you that there's just not an interest in education in that area.
00:15:15.940 And that drives up crime.
00:15:17.380 When you have low social responsibility factors at play, you can go to the other places where there are very lower median incomes.
00:15:25.060 Those people are never going to commit a crime.
00:15:27.020 They have very strong families, and they have a strong value on education, and the idea that if you are determined and you are diligent that you can be successful.
00:15:34.960 That's what's going on here.
00:15:36.180 I hate this stupid talking boy.
00:15:38.200 People are committing crimes because we haven't cut them big enough checks.
00:15:41.320 Do you know that after the 2008 housing crisis in the United States, crime went down for the next three or four years?
00:15:47.900 Because it has nothing to do with poverty.
00:15:50.900 It has to do with people, whether or not they can actually stop themselves from committing crime.
00:15:55.320 In theory, we've all been getting wealthier than those who were around 50 years ago, 60 years ago, 100 years ago.
00:16:02.020 Crime was very low in the 60s and the years before that.
00:16:06.560 Because, again, it has to do with whether or not you have the values not to commit crime and instead work.
00:16:11.040 And what we keep doing with all these programs where we give people more money almost as a bribe not to commit crime is we are incentivizing bad behavior all over the place.
00:16:20.800 But, my goodness, I almost need to – I'm going to screenshot this right as we're sitting here because this is such a dweeby-looking face from this guy.
00:16:28.440 Oh, my goodness.
00:16:31.480 Again, I keep saying this is truly one of the worst interviews I've ever seen in my life.
00:16:35.320 Talk to the small businesses where things are walking out of their stores on a regular basis and how difficult it is.
00:16:40.160 Look at how many businesses are closed down now.
00:16:42.560 People are not going downtown anymore because they're not feeling safe.
00:16:45.920 This is what is out there in our society today, and it should not be trivialized and become normal.
00:16:51.420 I'm not trivializing it at all.
00:16:53.640 I'm saying that you see the world in a very particular way.
00:16:58.120 It's a logical way, actually.
00:16:59.940 If you are so concerned with people not having enough money and that's why they're committing crime, which is the most infantilizing perspective on crime possible, they're committing crime because we didn't pay them off enough.
00:17:10.160 How about we lower their taxes? 0.58
00:17:11.980 How about we clear up regulations so it's easier to hire employees so that businesses have more money at the end of the day to pay people so that they can lower prices because they don't need – maybe we should crack down on crime so that Save on Foods can lower prices because they don't need two or three security guards per location.
00:17:29.220 That's an idea.
00:17:30.280 This is tens of thousands of dollars of extra measures that they need to be able to protect their product and their customers, and that's being added to the price of food.
00:17:39.500 Get rid of the carbon tax.
00:17:40.620 Get rid of tons of different taxes, and you'll actually make it more livable.
00:17:44.340 But you also need to crack down on crime.
00:17:46.380 But this guy would probably be someone who thinks that it's racist, that certain people are more disproportionately locked up than others.
00:17:52.880 In a way, that's a dangerous, awful place.
00:17:55.700 And I don't know that everybody sees it that way.
00:17:58.700 Everybody may not see it that way, but I can tell you something.
00:18:01.240 Were there tons of tent cities all over the house seven years ago?
00:18:03.920 No.
00:18:04.120 All over the city?
00:18:05.760 No.
00:18:05.980 I mean, the province?
00:18:06.760 No, there wasn't.
00:18:07.720 Those are popping up.
00:18:09.080 Was there people doing drugs all over the place?
00:18:11.400 No.
00:18:11.580 It was more limited and very serious.
00:18:13.020 Now there's drugs all over, for example.
00:18:14.620 There were 10 cities all over Vancouver 20 years ago when they built the Woodward's building.
00:18:19.280 There were 10 cities at Science World.
00:18:20.500 There were 10 cities in Victoria.
00:18:22.140 They were not all over the place.
00:18:23.600 Well, there have been 10 cities around for a very long time.
00:18:25.820 There have been, but not to the same level.
00:18:27.880 They proliferated all over the place.
00:18:28.920 You can even just see, and I want to become one of these body language experts who are like,
00:18:33.120 hmm, he wiggled his nose a little bit.
00:18:36.800 That must mean he committed a crime.
00:18:38.460 But even just the body language of the interviewer has been getting more and more closed in
00:18:42.820 and more awkward as the interview has gone on because he's uncomfortable, because John
00:18:46.740 Rustad is making him look like a fool and pushing back on him hard, and he's looking
00:18:50.580 more frustrated because he's used to conservative politicians or BC liberal politicians in the
00:18:56.360 past coming in and cowering in front of his questions, trying to be nice to the interview
00:19:00.420 host.
00:19:00.960 Don't be nice to people who are like this.
00:19:02.780 This guy is like a goblin.
00:19:05.100 He is trying, he is out to get John Rustad, and John's not playing into it.
00:19:10.440 All over the communities.
00:19:11.800 I mean, you just drive down the highway, Highway 1, you'll see him here and there and everywhere
00:19:15.240 now.
00:19:15.560 Those were never there seven years ago.
00:19:17.420 I understand.
00:19:18.480 Let's talk about the election, and I do apologize for getting sidetracked there, but the...
00:19:25.400 Even John's smiling because he knows he got the guy, and now he wants to move on and talk
00:19:30.800 about the election, because this guy would love to keep hammering on John Rustad if he
00:19:35.080 thought he had a point.
00:19:36.320 He doesn't, and that's why he's just wanting to move on.
00:19:39.680 Let's talk, let's get back to the election after I tried to embarrass you and then was
00:19:44.060 embarrassed to myself.
00:19:46.240 When the...
00:19:47.520 You talked about in your speech about how you want to take on the NDP at the first
00:19:53.200 opportunity.
00:19:53.900 Would you like to see another election as soon as possible?
00:19:56.180 My hope is, come Saturday, that the Conservative Party will have the opportunity to form a
00:20:00.540 government.
00:20:00.700 Of course.
00:20:01.520 That's my hope.
00:20:02.260 And so we'll see what comes out of that.
00:20:04.100 Should we still be in the minority situation, we will be looking and working with other MLAs,
00:20:09.040 Green Party or others, to look at an opportunity to be able to govern in this province.
00:20:14.080 Should we end up in a situation where there's a minority government of the NDP that is in
00:20:19.620 power in British Columbia, if they're carrying forward with the policies that they are promising
00:20:24.360 to do, which have brought so much destruction and pain in this province, especially to our resource
00:20:28.960 sector in British Columbia.
00:20:30.820 And they'll know I cannot support that.
00:20:32.180 And I will try to bring their government down at the earliest possible opportunity.
00:20:35.180 Okay.
00:20:35.820 I think that's a good place to end it off there.
00:20:37.560 I know that really wasn't in the vein of how bad the interview was towards the end.
00:20:41.640 But it does set me up to talk about a little bit of the strategy of the BC Conservatives
00:20:45.900 in potentially negotiating how to run a minority government if they only have 46 seats.
00:20:50.580 I actually think there is an opportunity either for NDP floor cross or to come over to the
00:20:55.320 Conservatives, especially a South Asian MLA who cannot vote for SOGI and actually have
00:21:01.120 respect in their community.
00:21:03.180 Or I think there actually is an option.
00:21:05.940 Sorry, I keep banging on the table.
00:21:08.780 I'm actually a fairly tall person, which people sometimes don't expect in real life because
00:21:12.440 I look like I'm short.
00:21:13.740 I keep banging my legs against my table and it rumbles everything.
00:21:16.700 And then I have a tendency to also put my hand on the microphone.
00:21:19.800 So in the past, if you ever hear all this like thumping and crap, that's because I'm
00:21:23.260 like sitting here holding the microphone and like, you know, vibrating on the table.
00:21:27.580 But the thing with the Greens is I actually think there is an opportunity to work with
00:21:32.220 the Greens.
00:21:32.980 If you know who these Green MLAs that were elected are, these are old school Andrew Weaver
00:21:38.000 Greens.
00:21:38.780 Both of them are men who were not in the Green Party caucus this last election.
00:21:44.220 Either the old Green MLAs lost re-election like Sonia first to know or they moved on.
00:21:49.840 And these two guys are kind of like old school, more so 90s trade unionist type people.
00:21:55.720 Not trade unionists, more just union green guys.
00:21:58.600 So if we have certain community approaches to health care or whatever that lines up with
00:22:03.760 them, we might be able to make deals with the Greens depending on the piece of legislation
00:22:08.240 up.
00:22:08.540 And I think that that's classically the way that you actually do minority governments is
00:22:13.160 that you put up things for a vote and you see if you can get buy-in from the other parties.
00:22:17.400 And I'm just going to lay cards on the table of how I think the conservatives should do
00:22:21.160 this because it will be very obvious if they do it the way I suggest that what you do, you
00:22:25.900 just keep putting up vote after vote after vote on getting rid of SOGI, getting rid of 0.99
00:22:30.920 the provincial carbon tax, getting rid of safe supply, putting in place a new rehab program,
00:22:36.120 putting more police on the streets, keep putting out votes with this stuff and keep watching
00:22:41.280 either the Greens or the NDP, keep voting it down and looking like complete simpletons that
00:22:46.500 they don't understand what the voters of BC want because they can say, well, they want
00:22:51.320 us because they voted for us.
00:22:52.820 They voted for you guys because you have a strong party machine.
00:22:56.960 But if this was actually a fair race where the conservatives had as much taxpayer money as
00:23:01.100 the NDP had, the BC conservatives would have blown them out.
00:23:04.340 In fact, just because of some independents running specifically to trip up the conservatives,
00:23:09.820 the conservatives should have won about 49, 52 seats.
00:23:13.800 Like, you know, Vernon Lumbee, you have places like Richmond Stevenson, where there was just
00:23:19.200 incumbents running purely to mess over the conservatives.
00:23:22.360 Oceanside Ladysmith, that was another one.
00:23:24.200 Brett Fee should have easily had that.
00:23:25.960 But an independent basically ran as the real alternative to the NDP, knowing that they were never going
00:23:31.100 to win and then just trying to make sure that Brett Fee wouldn't win, maybe because he wants
00:23:35.500 to be the candidate next time.
00:23:36.680 I don't think so.
00:23:38.320 Regardless, but I think that that should be the conservative strategy going forward, going
00:23:42.460 out to the voters saying, we want to get rid of the carbon tax.
00:23:45.220 We want to do this and let the NDP justify to voters why they won't let tax relief happen,
00:23:52.400 why we can't lower income taxes, why we can't shift money from the administration side of
00:23:57.460 healthcare to the actual frontline side so we can have more nurses and doctors working. 0.96
00:24:01.820 Keep doing that and keep making them not look like complete fools by voting for the dumbest,
00:24:07.200 like voting against the most common sense pieces of legislation possible.
00:24:11.820 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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00:24:26.280 Sorry, I keep bumping the table.
00:24:28.160 I'm going to get better at that.
00:24:29.140 I maybe need a table that has more accommodation for my legs down here.
00:24:32.980 It's always a work in progress.
00:24:34.740 But anyways, so I'll be back with more videos.
00:24:37.520 I'm going to be able to put out way more diverse content now that I'm back in my normal studio
00:24:41.580 and I can like, you know, do whiteboard videos.
00:24:45.040 I can do stuff in regards to other elections going on around the country.
00:24:49.340 There's a lot of stuff going on with whether or not Justin Trudeau is going to actually
00:24:52.480 survive as the Liberal Party leader.
00:24:55.000 I think there's actually either a small chance he gets thrown out or at least he gets damaged
00:25:00.300 so much by the attempted ouster by certain members of his caucus that he ends up sinking
00:25:05.300 himself into the pits and he cannot come back in the 2025 election.
00:25:09.920 I actually have to give Justin Trudeau credit on something, oddly enough.
00:25:13.180 He actually is pursuing lowering temporary foreign workers and students even more.
00:25:17.020 Good on him.
00:25:18.900 Way too late.
00:25:19.920 This is not me giving him forgiveness because he's not asked for it and he's not actually
00:25:24.360 turning over a new leaf.
00:25:25.300 He's just trying to save himself.
00:25:27.020 But that demonstrates how much the conversation on mass immigration has changed in Canada that
00:25:33.440 even the Liberals are having to run as immigration restrictionists now.
00:25:37.780 Okay.
00:25:38.040 Anyway, so that's truly the end of this video, guys.
00:25:40.960 See you later.
00:25:42.220 Yeah.
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