The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - NDP Hate Canadians - BC need to Drop DRIPA

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I have to show you a clip from the British Columbia legislature last

00:00:06.440 week that I think fully encapsulates just how stupid Canadian politics can get. I assume the

00:00:12.940 vast majority of you watching this video right now are Canadian citizens. But a member of the

00:00:19.460 BCNDP government would disagree. She thinks that you are an uninvited guest and the only legitimate

00:00:26.180 Canadians are First Nations Canadians. The really funny thing is the person saying this isn't even

00:00:32.040 First Nations. So they're like standing up and like martyring themselves saying that I shouldn't even 1.00

00:00:37.020 be here, but I'm going to stay and I'll hold on to all my property, but I'm going to condemn myself

00:00:41.420 because that's what we do in hyper-progressive provinces like British Columbia. Although I

00:00:47.160 disagree with that, I actually don't think British Columbia is that left-wing and progressive. I think

00:00:52.140 it's more so that the progressives have organized very well in BC politics and have been able to

00:00:57.340 control the province for well over a decade now. You could easily get a very conservative government

00:01:02.240 in BC, but that leads me to the other thing about this clip I'm out to show you. The BC conservatives

00:01:07.860 are being so manipulative in opposing what she is saying. Should you oppose what this woman is saying?

00:01:13.700 Yes, it's absolutely bat crap crazy. At the same time, they're like disagreeing with it. At the same

00:01:20.060 time, they actually 100% agree with her. If you look at the words and actions of BC conservative

00:01:26.020 MLAs, they're playing kind of like an inside outside game in the BC conservative party run by

00:01:31.460 the absolutely cowardly John Rustad. A BC NDP person or some radical left-wing activist will say

00:01:39.060 something insane. They'll say, those particular words are insane. And then they will basically do

00:01:46.360 the same insane stuff, but with more conservative red meat rhetoric. No Canadians, we're not settlers, 0.73

00:01:53.820 we're Canadians, we're British Columbians. Also, we're very in favor of DRIPA, and we think every

00:01:58.920 single project should be subject to First Nations ban veto. Good job, John. Anyways, before I get into 0.90

00:02:06.000 the video, guys, if you like my show, please drop a like on the video, subscribe if you're not yet a

00:02:10.860 subscriber, and then leave a comment on what you think on this. It's going to be a big ball of yarn.

00:02:16.380 I'm going to kind of untangle in front of you guys here. So comment on whatever aspect you think is

00:02:21.560 particularly interesting to you. But here's the statement, which was first posted by the BC

00:02:27.680 independent MLA, Dallas Brody.

00:02:30.320 A few weeks ago, in estimates, I heard the member for Columbia River, Revelstoke,

00:02:35.840 expressed discomfort with the terms settler, uninvited guest, and colonizer. That prompted me

00:02:44.540 to deeply reflect on where these terms come from, and why they matter. Even if we didn't personally

00:02:52.320 cause colonization, we live in a country shaped by it. That's why many non-Indigenous people, 1.00

00:02:59.640 including myself, use the term settler. Nobody does. You mean leftists do that.

00:03:07.500 Leftists use those terms. Sorry the video is a little bit quiet. This is as loud as I can get

00:03:12.100 the clip. But one, I have to say, please don't wear colors, like, don't wear shades of this type of

00:03:18.720 purple. It's terrible. Anyways, also, I hate the way she's presenting this already. It's kind of this

00:03:24.980 performative, quizzical, sixth-grade girl doing a book presentation. Some people out there don't

00:03:32.000 like the word settler. Well, let's explore that. It's like, no, let's not explore that. Your point's

00:03:36.800 dumb.

00:03:37.900 Uninvited guest, or for white folks who self-describe as colonizer. It reminds us that we are here

00:03:45.500 because of a colonial system that still impacts Indigenous communities today. Through historically

00:03:52.800 underfunded services, title rights, over-colesing, boil water advisories, the legacy of residential

00:04:01.220 schools. It goes on like this, but she's just wrong. I think we can just say that she's deeply wrong

00:04:07.780 about British Columbia and Canada. And also, if she feels guilty of being a colonizer,

00:04:14.240 about being a settler, about being an uninvited guest, she can leave. Go move somewhere else. Go 0.88

00:04:20.480 back to wherever your particular ancestors came from. I think Canada should be an open society

00:04:27.300 where people who want to be Canadian are allowed to show up and be Canadian. That's why our current

00:04:31.640 immigration system sucks, because we get a bunch of people who could care less about Canada showing 1.00

00:04:36.120 up for a job because there's money, and then they're either going to leave eventually, or they're just

00:04:40.720 going to stick around here and try and turn their patch of Canada into wherever home was. We see 0.92

00:04:46.440 that all over the place with literal street fights by people from Eritrea or whatever going on. It's

00:04:51.700 ridiculous. Who the heck allowed this to go on? You don't get to bring tribal fights from home to this 0.90

00:04:57.300 country. But that's not what we're talking about today. This was insane. This was absolutely insane.

00:05:03.040 And the fact that the BC NDP let her stand up and say this is just political malpractice. I'm just

00:05:09.920 putting on my BC NDP hat right now. I couldn't stand them. I'm conservative. In fact, I'm conservative

00:05:15.840 to the point where I don't put up with the fake conservatism of the BC conservatives. Most of their

00:05:21.140 MLAs are good, but the BC conservatives are being led by woke scolds, basically. Most of them could do good

00:05:27.560 stuff if they weren't under the thumb of John Rustad, Alia Warbus, Eleanor Sturko, Amelia Boltby,

00:05:34.160 and people like that, Peter Milibar, Scott McInnes. If those people were gone, Gavin Dew, you might

00:05:39.460 actually be able to get a conservative party. But that's beside the point. Let's pretend that I'm

00:05:44.280 BC NDP at this point. You won the last election off of the backs of a lot of liberal voters, a lot of

00:05:51.520 older liberal voters who, while they are not conservative, are not going to put up with stuff like this.

00:05:57.180 Again, this is the elbows up crowd. Why would you get up and basically say, you know, you guys are

00:06:03.060 scum, right? You know, you're a colonizer and an undivided guest, right? Like, oh my goodness,

00:06:08.220 divest yourself of your base as fast as possible. I welcome it. But if I was running the BC NDP,

00:06:14.940 goodness, I would put this lady on an ice float and push her out to sea. Because this is an extremely 0.97

00:06:19.940 easy way of losing your moderate middle voters, because every single party has to basically be able

00:06:25.840 keep its middle intact. Middle voters don't mean non-ideological voters. It means a voter who,

00:06:32.040 if you get a little bit too crazy with the rhetoric, they're going to get turned off

00:06:36.100 pretty quickly. Even if it's not something that's guiding your actual policy, they'll get really

00:06:40.900 kind of like, I'm not a colonizer and I don't want to vote for your party. But anyways, now I want to

00:06:47.200 get to some of the responses to this. Because I found the way the conservatives have been reacting to

00:06:53.040 this to be endlessly annoying. First, let's check out this thing that the conservatives just posted

00:06:58.980 yesterday. This post pretending like they are against this rhetoric. So the BC Conservative Party

00:07:06.060 says, there are no settlers or uninvited guests. There are just British Columbians. This province belongs

00:07:12.460 to all of us. Let's build it together. And it's John Rustad's op-ed that it links to at the Vancouver Sun.

00:07:17.600 And it has, there are no settlers quote from him. There are only British Columbians. John Rustad,

00:07:22.680 what a powerful statement. Didn't he kick out Dallas Brody, the lady who he was in fact copying

00:07:31.280 the post of because she was the first one to post that clip of that NDP MLA, condemn what she said 0.87

00:07:36.280 and call it out for how crazy it was. He literally copied her to the point where they actually took my 0.56

00:07:41.260 clip of it because I work for Tara Armstrong and I had ended up clipping that video and gave it to

00:07:46.420 Dallas because she wanted it clipped. They literally posted my clipping of the video after

00:07:50.580 Dallas had already sounded off about it. So the BC Conservatives were not planning on talking about that

00:07:55.480 until Dallas Brody talked about it. But John kicked her out of the party for calling out the nonsense 0.88

00:08:00.700 of the Graves hoax at the Kamloops residential school. There are not 215 dead bodies there.

00:08:06.620 Even John has acknowledged that post kicking her out. And now he's going to tell us that we need to

00:08:12.020 stop the culture wars and cancel culture and we need to stand up for British Columbians.

00:08:17.460 His entire party is in favor of special rights depending on your ethnicity. One of them the

00:08:24.900 other day stood up to champion, I'm not even kidding, a $32 million taxpayer funded museum for South Asian

00:08:33.880 Canadians. And yes, I don't want that. I don't want a South Asian Canadian museum. I don't want a 0.98

00:08:39.680 Chinese Canadian museum. I don't want a British Canadian museum, an Irish Canadian museum. You

00:08:44.080 could have it, but it shouldn't be funded by taxpayers if it's not just general history. If

00:08:48.840 it's not just regional history or BC cultural history. If it's one specific group where we're

00:08:55.420 going to skip through history to grab this person and we'll skip this few years and oh, there's someone

00:09:00.600 from this group. That's not a real history museum that taxpayers should be funding. It's a interest group

00:09:05.920 museum. And this is also stuff the BC conservatives are saying. So they're opposed to the idea that BCers,

00:09:13.080 British Columbians are settlers. That's divisive. But we're still in favor of DRIPA, which is basically

00:09:21.160 the BC government's legislated version of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People.

00:09:27.080 DRIPA basically allows ban councils to stop projects all day long. It gives a lot of other special benefits

00:09:32.000 to people who are First Nations. It does make them a higher level of British Columbian. And this is

00:09:39.000 something that a BC conservative MLA said, the house leader, in fact, at Alia Warbus.

00:09:43.920 There needs to be a recognition that it be afforded the time it takes to have the alignment with DRIPA

00:09:59.280 and that Indigenous leaders are going to be on side with any changes to legislation that's going to

00:10:07.960 affect them. That's very clear. She said this, and it's not just her. I will pull up other examples.

00:10:15.060 You could say maybe she is just a radical who got into the party, but this is not actually

00:10:19.900 representative of what the party believes. Well, this happened just a couple of days ago. In the midst

00:10:24.960 of John's op-ed, Peter Milibar, one of their guys from Kamloops, a conservative MLA, Peter Milibar,

00:10:32.480 says, I sincerely wonder what the three BC NDP caucus members, who are all strong Indigenous

00:10:38.460 leaders, think about having to toe the voting line that EB demands. I spoke to this in my Bill 15

00:10:44.320 debate. If EB truly thinks he has the support of his caucus, allow a free vote on Bill 15 and 14.

00:10:50.120 My goodness. So he's making a racial argument that shouldn't the three BC NDP Indigenous MLAs

00:10:57.140 not like Bill 14 and 15, because it's trampling all over First Nations land title. One, guys,

00:11:03.760 Bill 14 and 15 are bad bills. But they're, frankly, even those bills, as much as they suck,

00:11:10.520 are technically better than the status quo. Now, I work with the three independent MLAs,

00:11:15.480 and between the intolerable status quo and these crappy bills, they were just not going to vote.

00:11:20.340 The NDP can pass them anyways, so why even get involved? So, but the conservatives,

00:11:25.560 people like Peter Milibar, were getting up and basically saying these bills suck because they

00:11:31.340 don't enforce environmental regulations hard enough. They don't give enough veto power to

00:11:36.340 Indigenous bands. What? Is this a conservative party? So this is what I hate. When the BC conservatives 0.98

00:11:43.000 get up and they say, we don't like this MLA's rhetoric about everyone being uninvited guests.

00:11:48.200 That's gross. Everyone's a British Columbian. And then they're in favor of DRIPA,

00:11:53.680 and then they argue against Bill 14 and 15, because they don't have enough. They're not

00:12:00.160 like blocking projects enough. They don't allow Indigenous band councils that only represent like 0.99

00:12:05.400 a few hundred people to be able to block pipelines and mines and forestry projects.

00:12:10.320 Here's another BC conservative MLA, Scott McInnes. Here is him arguing against 14 and 15.

00:12:16.520 Do you live in small town BC? What was the last time the premier spent any significant time in your

00:12:22.120 community? Here in rural British Columbia, where it's already hard enough to get infrastructure

00:12:26.200 projects moved to the front of the line, Bill 15 will most certainly make it that much harder.

00:12:31.560 That's literally not even true. I don't like Bill 15. That is a ridiculously asinine position on

00:12:38.600 Bill 15. He'll even contradict himself in the next few seconds here because he doesn't know what he's

00:12:42.800 doing. Bill 15 essentially allows the government to handpick projects for infrastructure that it

00:12:48.640 deems as provincially significant. No oversight, no discussion, no accountability.

00:12:54.720 So he, and this is why people like Scott McInnes, and I have tapes of him in the legislature getting

00:13:00.080 up and saying, First Nation bands don't like this because it doesn't allow them to have veto power.

00:13:03.760 It doesn't allow them to have endless consultations. It doesn't have enough environmental

00:13:07.680 oversights. Sorry, does the bill slow down infrastructure projects or does it speed them up?

00:13:13.920 Because my problem with the bill was the first, was the second part. It handpicks projects the

00:13:19.280 province likes, and I don't think that's right. You should have to fast track all projects in a region,

00:13:24.320 which we are trying to get done in an amendment as the three independent MLAs. Jordan Keeley, Dallas

00:13:30.560 Brody and Tara Armstrong are going to try and put forward amendments that universalize the bill to just

00:13:35.440 be mass deregulation. And that's it. The EB in his cabinet don't get to pick that project and that

00:13:40.320 project, but not the other ones. So he's saying that the bill is going to make it harder to build,

00:13:45.680 but it actually lets the government fast track projects it likes. Okay, well, what's the,

00:13:49.840 what's your point here, Scott? This is not what good governance is. Bill 15

00:13:55.280 has completely sidelined local governments. It has completely sidelined the voice of First Nations.

00:14:00.720 The Premier needs to listen to British Columbians. The opposition to Bill 15 is significant. I'm

00:14:06.480 urging the Premier to reconsider and pull Bill 15 off the table. The problem is that he and the

00:14:12.400 Conservatives are not opposing Bill 15 from the right. They are opposing Bill 15 from the left.

00:14:18.480 They are literally joining with the BC Greens to make arguments I only thought the BC Greens would make,

00:14:24.640 basically saying these bills should be even like the project process needs to even be more hamstrung

00:14:30.960 by consultations. I don't like 1415 because they're arbitrary. 14 only applies to renewable

00:14:37.840 projects, fast tracking those. That's why we're going to try and amend it, that it has to apply to

00:14:41.680 all types of energy projects and resource projects. And that again, they can't pick winners and losers.

00:14:46.480 They have to say, we fast track all projects in this region. And that's how it works. They can't just

00:14:51.040 say that one and not that one. But then the Conservatives are basically saying, no, no, no,

00:14:55.200 we want everything to be slow forever because they're just opposing stuff blindly without actually

00:15:00.320 thinking through what their argument is. Some other stuff we got going on here. Actually,

00:15:05.520 know what? Let's talk about something positive. Know who's actually doing something positive? Well,

00:15:09.840 not shockingly, it's Dallas Brody again, one of the independent MLAs. She is rolling out and I

00:15:15.360 encourage you all to go and check it out if you're in British Columbia and sign the petition.

00:15:19.360 It's dropdripa.ca to get rid of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People that is blocking

00:15:25.520 all projects. It's a ridiculous piece of legislation that centralizes power in the hands of very few

00:15:31.440 people who are incentivized to basically be obstinate because they can then sign a deal that may give them

00:15:36.400 financial benefits to their local government. And these are oftentimes governments who are already

00:15:41.440 getting tens of millions to over hundreds of millions of dollars in communities where there's

00:15:47.040 only like, again, a few hundred people on some of these reserves. But here is Dallas Brody talking

00:15:51.840 about it. Hi, Dallas Brody here. In 2019, David Eby, John Rustad and every other MLA in the legislature

00:15:59.760 passed the most racist and radical law in British Columbia's history. It's called the Declaration on the

00:16:05.840 Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, more commonly known as DRIPA. DRIPA entrenches the racial divisions

00:16:12.960 between Indigenous and non-Indigenous British Columbians. How does it do that? Well, first, 0.93

00:16:18.400 DRIPA transfers public and private lands to Indigenous bands who are not accountable to BC laws,

00:16:25.040 to BC voters, or even to their own members. And she's absolutely right. There was a situation that

00:16:31.760 happened on Haida Gwaii, which I've been told it was renamed. I actually, I'm not from BC, so I didn't

00:16:37.360 remember that it was like Queen Charlotte Island or something like that before. I probably butchered

00:16:41.760 that and I probably didn't even say the right name. But she is right. You can do whatever you want,

00:16:45.840 even to other Indigenous people. There were some people who were not even associated in a nasty way,

00:16:51.680 were family members related to somebody who was a drug dealer on Haida Gwaii. That person was punished,

00:16:57.280 arrested or something. But then the ban council just decided, the community just decided, let's

00:17:02.000 bulldoze the houses of people that were related to this person and drive them out. And guess what?

00:17:07.440 The province hasn't done anything about it because they can't do anything about it. They're allowed

00:17:11.440 to do it. It's their land. And the people who owned those homes, they're uninvited guests, even if

00:17:16.880 they were Indigenous. They are uninvited guests because it's not their land. It's the ban council's land. 1.00

00:17:21.120 British Columbia is a great example of why Soviet socialism doesn't work. Because all 200 ban 1.00

00:17:29.200 councils basically act like Russian Soviets, where it doesn't matter if you're Indigenous or

00:17:34.160 non-Indigenous. If you have a foreign, a logging project that you want started, if you want to open 0.82

00:17:38.640 up a mine, the ban council can just say no. It's not like you're Indigenous so you can do it. No, 1.00

00:17:43.440 no, no, ban council just says no and that's it. And so I think that that's why it's absolutely a good

00:17:48.240 idea to be getting rid of DRIPA. Second, DRIPA gives veto powers to BC's 200 plus bans over

00:17:55.920 government decisions, blocking approvals for resource development, infrastructure and other

00:18:01.120 areas of our economy. Third, DRIPA dictates that all BC laws, all laws, be rewritten to conform with

00:18:10.080 Indigenous laws, even though many of these laws are unwritten myths, cultural practices that are not

00:18:16.080 compatible with a democratic rules-based society. DRIPA is the reason why Wet'suwet'en chiefs 1.00

00:18:22.000 expelled law-abiding workers from the LNG Canada pipeline project. DRIPA is the reason why Haida 1.00

00:18:29.280 leaders demolished the homes of citizens recently who had committed no crime. DRIPA is the reason why

00:18:35.280 provincial parks are being closed to the non-Indigenous public. Every British Columbian should 0.96

00:18:40.000 have the same rights and the same opportunities, including Indigenous British Columbians living in

00:18:45.600 poverty on reserves without charter rights or the ability to own private property.

00:18:50.800 That's again, something that people don't know. Oftentimes it's not like, oh no, Indigenous

00:18:55.200 people get to own private property on Indigenous land. No, no, the ban council does. Indigenous 0.99

00:18:59.760 people don't own anything. That's the problem. This is actually why all these things are kind of

00:19:03.840 racist to Indigenous people. It's basically treating them like they're incapable and they must have a

00:19:08.480 government manage everything for them, whether it's the local ban council, the federal government or the

00:19:12.880 provincial government. But now I want to move on to one other thing. So in the midst of all this,

00:19:18.960 where are some of the woke MLAs? Where's Alia Warbus? She follows me, by the way. I think she does

00:19:25.600 secretly like me, even though she attacks me quite a bit now. But where was, I'm just going to scroll

00:19:31.040 through. Where's, where's her sharing John Rustad's op-ed? Where is that? She didn't share this one

00:19:37.120 about Indigenous leaders saying 14 and 15 need to be, need to go because, you know, they're not pro-Indigenous

00:19:42.560 enough. She'd do this. Where was she? We even called her out for being in favor of DRIPA. She said that we

00:19:48.960 are wrong about what she said. But then when we followed up and asked her to then condemn DRIPA and say

00:19:54.240 that she would want it repealed, nothing. Has John said that he wants DRIPA repealed? No. Has any MLA

00:20:01.280 come forward since Warbus said that, well, the bill 14 and 15 are bad because they are not honoring

00:20:08.400 DRIPA enough. They are not taking the time to fall in line with DRIPA. Not a single one of them has

00:20:13.120 dared stand up and say anything different because she's basically the one who owns that issue now for

00:20:17.280 the party. And although the BC Conservatives ran on repealing DRIPA, I guess they're just not going to do

00:20:22.160 that anymore. And this is on multiple fronts. They're not in favor of cutting taxes, really.

00:20:26.320 I don't even know a tax they even ran on cutting. They were like running on rebates, but rebates are

00:20:31.200 not tax cuts. You have to do something to get the rebate. They don't really oppose SOGI 123 anymore.

00:20:37.520 It's more so that they just think that age inappropriate books should be removed from

00:20:41.360 libraries. And let's be clear, they're not age inappropriate. They are sexually inappropriate.

00:20:44.880 Nobody at any age should be reading this garbage. And SOGI should not be taught in any classroom,

00:20:49.360 no matter what age the kids are. I know it's not curriculum, but it's like basically an

00:20:53.840 anti-bullying pedagogy or whatever you would call it. It's still basically allowing them to bring in

00:21:01.680 more kind of like woke gender theory into the classroom to teach. It's bad. It's just overall

00:21:06.960 a very foolish thing for them to have in any school. But now the Conservatives just say it's age

00:21:11.760 inappropriate. So I guess if we only limit it to middle school and on, then it's okay. Or it has to,

00:21:16.640 not under the under grade three. Tons of issues. They've just dropped. They just don't care

00:21:22.480 much about getting resources developed. Now, apparently they have the same position as the NDP,

00:21:27.280 that first environmental activist groups and band councils must be honored before we

00:21:32.240 put any shovels into the ground to dig a new mine. But yeah, so they'll just keep opposing NDP rhetoric,

00:21:39.280 but at the same time, they don't actually disagree with the direction of the NDP. And when they do,

00:21:44.560 it's because the NDP is not being harsh enough when it comes to subjecting the BC economy to like

00:21:50.240 putting it under the thumb of band councils who can just say no whenever. Anyways, all this stuff

00:21:55.760 annoys me to no end. But I will be linking in the description below as well as pinned at the top of

00:22:00.800 the comments to drop DRIPA petition. Make sure to sign it if you're in BC and you oppose DRIPA. I don't

00:22:06.960 think that any government will succeed in making life better for British Columbians unless they're going to

00:22:12.000 repeal DRIPA. That's why I just don't have any faith in the BC Conservatives right now. They won't

00:22:16.480 get rid of all of the big problems. So what's the point of putting them into government? They will

00:22:21.040 cut around the corners. They'll do better on drug policy, which is a massive failure of the BC NDP,

00:22:26.000 a massive ideological failure where they don't even care that they're hurting people because

00:22:30.400 what they're doing is ideologically correct. So the Conservatives are fine there, but you go to a

00:22:34.960 bunch of other major areas of policy and they're, you know, I wish the NDP was more efficient is the

00:22:41.040 argument. It's like, oh my goodness, how is this any different than like Andrew Wilkinson's BC Liberals or

00:22:47.040 Christy Clark's BC Liberals? Kevin Falcon would actually like run circles around these guys when it

00:22:52.000 comes to ideological conservatism. The man was literally more conservative than John Restead currently

00:22:57.040 is. And the party has been taken over by about seven MLAs who can do and say whatever they want. And if

00:23:02.000 someone in caucus currently says anything conservative, they will be attacked just like

00:23:05.920 Eleanor Sturko and Alia Warbus. No, not her. It was Amelia Bowlby in this case. They attacked Heather

00:23:11.920 Maas for inviting a Christian reform group to the legislature to talk on the issue of basically pro-life

00:23:18.560 stuff, MAID, gender theory, SOGI 123. It was a reformed Christian organization that just advises on policy.

00:23:26.560 And that was too far to those MLAs. And they attacked their own caucus member. Disgusting.

00:23:32.480 Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys. Thank you for watching the video. Make sure to like

00:23:38.320 the video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, and I'll see you guys next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 24, 2025

NDP Hate Canadians - BC need to Drop DRIPA

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