The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 04, 2024


Liberals blame BC NDP over failed drug policy the Liberals supported

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David Eby Justin Trudeau Andrew Coins Yara Sachs Speaker
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There's a political war brewing on the left side of Canadian politics right now between Justin Trudeau's federal Liberal government and the BC NDP government under David Eby. The Liberals don't want to be associated with the BC government, because they think that an association with David and his radical drug policies would make the federal Liberals even worse off.

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00:00:00.000 There's a political war brewing on the left side of Canadian politics right now between Justin Trudeau's federal liberal government and the British Columbia NDP government under the leadership of David Eby.
00:00:11.600 I predicted this a few videos ago that despite the fact that the liberals have an awful brand, like nobody likes them, their approval ratings are horrible, Justin Trudeau's personal approval rating is horrible, they still don't want to be associated with David Eby.
00:00:24.760 They think that an association with David Eby and his radical drug policies would make the federal liberals even worse off.
00:00:32.440 The funny thing is that they kind of already own a lot of the blame for the crazy drug policies that David Eby has introduced in British Columbia because they were the ones who gave the waivers for decriminalization, for safe supply and all these other policies.
00:00:46.720 And this is what has resulted in clips like this where our mental health and addictions minister, Yara Sachs, from the liberal government is now trying to basically act all offended that the conservatives are blaming the federal liberals in part for the drug issues because it's actually all the B.C. government's fault.
00:01:04.660 They asked us.
00:01:05.360 We were completely hands off, not realizing that that's kind of the problem.
00:01:09.140 Take a look at this.
00:01:09.940 Mother, and as a member of this government, the tragedies that are happening across this country and the lives lost are completely devastating.
00:01:17.800 It's shameful that the opposition continues to politicize this.
00:01:22.180 In B.C. asked the federal government to work with them on a three-year pilot program.
00:01:29.120 They have come to us and asked for an amendment to that proposal.
00:01:32.760 We are working through it with them because, Mr. Speaker, we have to get this right.
00:01:36.680 We are here to save lives.
00:01:38.160 We need to get it right with law enforcement.
00:01:40.480 We need to get it right with our public health services because our focus here is to save lives so that people don't die alone.
00:01:47.500 They have no plan.
00:01:49.660 So people don't die alone.
00:01:51.900 Really, I think that sums up the federal liberal provincial NDP's approach to drug policy.
00:01:58.500 We're not stopping people from dying.
00:02:00.580 We just want them to have a few social workers around them while they die because we're giving them free drugs and giving them safe injection sites and all this stuff and not actually trying to force people off of drugs.
00:02:11.240 What she's doing right here is pretending like it wasn't us.
00:02:14.760 It was David Eby who manipulated us into starting this pilot program, and now we're having to help fix it for them.
00:02:20.860 You guys should have seen this proposal on paper as the dumbest thing humanly possible, that we're going to decriminalize drugs in British Columbia.
00:02:29.560 We're going to start offering government-supplied safe drugs to people. 0.99
00:02:33.640 That's insane.
00:02:35.120 And the liberals went along with it, and now they're trying to act like, oh, the conservatives are politicizing this. 0.99
00:02:41.500 Yeah, because you guys are killing people.
00:02:43.920 Because you guys, on the mission in life to basically just make it so that drugs are safer, you've actually gotten more people killed. 0.59
00:02:53.420 At some point, this kind of does need to be politicized because people need to know the left-wing approach to drugs is horrible.
00:03:01.880 It gets people killed.
00:03:02.900 The basic math that they're doing is that they've made drugs safer because somebody might need to OD eight times before they die from an overdose because of all the safety nets that they've put in place in British Columbia.
00:03:15.940 And that somehow means that the streets of British Columbia are safer, despite the fact that they've actually made so many incentives for certain people to get on drugs thinking that it's way safer because the government keeps literally marketing it as the government will give you safe supply drugs.
00:03:31.600 If you're addicted, obviously, a lot of people started doing drugs.
00:03:36.480 So, yes, the numerator of how many times you need to do drugs before you actually OD and die has gone up.
00:03:44.140 The thing is the denominator of the amount of people on drugs at risk of ODing has significantly gone up, too.
00:03:51.180 So, we've basically traded a rational approach to illicit drugs, which was arrest drug dealers, don't let people use drugs openly, and push people onto rehabilitation pathways.
00:04:02.800 And we've replaced that with let's make meth safe again.
00:04:06.220 And I don't think that meth has ever been safe.
00:04:08.480 That's just a little bit of a crazy opinion I have as a conservative individual, a right-wing conservative who thinks that maybe people shouldn't be injecting smack between their toes.
00:04:18.220 But we have now this situation in British Columbia right now that despite everyone on the east side of Vancouver and really just the entirety of the province at this point can see drug addicts all over the streets unable to even function anymore, people will still say to themselves, and these are hyper-progressives, the people who will still vote for David Eby in the provincial election despite all of his failures, they'll be like, well, at least we're not unsafe now.
00:04:44.100 Well, what? We are 100% unsafe.
00:04:47.720 But anyways, with what the liberals are doing here, this is why Trudeau has been so silent since David Eby requested the change to his recriminalization policy because David Eby is pretending he's moderating by saying, don't use fentanyl in the parks, do it on the sidewalk.
00:05:04.720 That's effectively what the change he wants to make.
00:05:06.460 You can't use it on a children's playground, and you can't use it in, like, certain public parks anymore, despite the fact that he doesn't care if people encamp in public parks.
00:05:14.820 So the idea he's actually going to enforce this new policy is ridiculous.
00:05:18.280 But Trudeau has not actually been acknowledging that David Eby has been asking for this amendment to the decriminalization waiver that they gave them because Trudeau doesn't even want to acknowledge that he has any ownership over this problem.
00:05:29.620 But like Yara said, she's really trying to split the baby here. 1.00
00:05:33.860 She's trying to say that while the conservatives don't care about saving lives and we're in favor of saving lives, also this is all David Eby's fault.
00:05:40.420 It's his pilot program.
00:05:41.660 We just gave him permission, which you still gave him permission.
00:05:45.160 That's like if a province asked you to basically decriminalize murder and you did it and you said – and then when people say, why did you do that?
00:05:52.120 You're like, well, they wanted to do a two-year The Purge pilot program and just let people kill whoever they wanted and see if it made society better.
00:06:00.080 We're actually trying to save lives here.
00:06:02.040 And you seem to be a bit of a bigot when it comes to murder and other sort of violence and drug use and whatnot.
00:06:10.020 Whatever. 0.94
00:06:10.480 This is your brain on left-wing politics.
00:06:12.960 It does pickle the brain over time when you think that an intricate enough policy, a nuanced, wonkish enough policy will eventually mean that we have flying cars and there is no scarcity anymore in the economy and everyone's a trillionaire.
00:06:27.420 No.
00:06:28.200 Simple policy works the best because simple policy is hard to screw up.
00:06:32.980 You always have left-wing pundits on television, the Andrew Coins and Chantal Hubertes of the world, act like you're being simplistic.
00:06:39.800 But simplicity is great because people can't screw up simplicity for the most part.
00:06:45.940 I know there's always going to be an outlier.
00:06:47.340 But when you have these drug policies with all these different regulations and sort of little sub points about, oh, you can use meth now but not over here and you can't be carrying this much on you and you can't be using the public park.
00:06:59.980 But you can, like, you know, put, like, we have Narcan kits all over the streets in case you do OD in the park because we really aren't even enforcing those rules.
00:07:09.580 Eventually, you're going to have a system that just doesn't work at all because it's contradictory.
00:07:13.540 It's just a web of contradictions in policy that don't actually get at solving the problem.
00:07:18.760 They just end up trying to make the problem better rather than trying to solve it.
00:07:23.160 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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