NDP Hate Canadians - BC need to Drop DRIPA
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Summary
A member of the BC NDP government thinks that First Nations people are an "uninvited guest" in Canada and that only legitimate Canadians are First Nations Canadians. She also says that she's a "Colonizer" and a "Settler" and that she should leave Canada because she's guilty of being a "colonizer." What's the difference between being a settler and a colonizer?
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I have to show you a clip from the British Columbia legislature last
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week that I think fully encapsulates just how stupid Canadian politics can get. I assume the
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vast majority of you watching this video right now are Canadian citizens. But a member of the
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BCNDP government would disagree. She thinks that you are an uninvited guest and the only legitimate
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Canadians are First Nations Canadians. The really funny thing is the person saying this isn't even
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First Nations. So they're like standing up and like martyring themselves saying that I shouldn't even
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be here, but I'm going to stay and I'll hold on to all my property, but I'm going to condemn myself
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because that's what we do in hyper-progressive provinces like British Columbia. Although I
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disagree with that, I actually don't think British Columbia is that left-wing and progressive. I think
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it's more so that the progressives have organized very well in BC politics and have been able to
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control the province for well over a decade now. You could easily get a very conservative government
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in BC, but that leads me to the other thing about this clip I'm out to show you. The BC conservatives
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are being so manipulative in opposing what she is saying. Should you oppose what this woman is saying?
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Yes, it's absolutely bat crap crazy. At the same time, they're like disagreeing with it. At the same
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time, they actually 100% agree with her. If you look at the words and actions of BC conservative
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MLAs, they're playing kind of like an inside outside game in the BC conservative party run by
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the absolutely cowardly John Rustad. A BC NDP person or some radical left-wing activist will say
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something insane. They'll say, those particular words are insane. And then they will basically do
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the same insane stuff, but with more conservative red meat rhetoric. No Canadians, we're not settlers,
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we're Canadians, we're British Columbians. Also, we're very in favor of DRIPA, and we think every
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single project should be subject to First Nations ban veto. Good job, John. Anyways, before I get into
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the video, guys, if you like my show, please drop a like on the video, subscribe if you're not yet a
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subscriber, and then leave a comment on what you think on this. It's going to be a big ball of yarn.
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I'm going to kind of untangle in front of you guys here. So comment on whatever aspect you think is
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particularly interesting to you. But here's the statement, which was first posted by the BC
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A few weeks ago, in estimates, I heard the member for Columbia River, Revelstoke,
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expressed discomfort with the terms settler, uninvited guest, and colonizer. That prompted me
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to deeply reflect on where these terms come from, and why they matter. Even if we didn't personally
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cause colonization, we live in a country shaped by it. That's why many non-Indigenous people,
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including myself, use the term settler. Nobody does. You mean leftists do that.
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Leftists use those terms. Sorry the video is a little bit quiet. This is as loud as I can get
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the clip. But one, I have to say, please don't wear colors, like, don't wear shades of this type of
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purple. It's terrible. Anyways, also, I hate the way she's presenting this already. It's kind of this
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performative, quizzical, sixth-grade girl doing a book presentation. Some people out there don't
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like the word settler. Well, let's explore that. It's like, no, let's not explore that. Your point's
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Uninvited guest, or for white folks who self-describe as colonizer. It reminds us that we are here
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because of a colonial system that still impacts Indigenous communities today. Through historically
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underfunded services, title rights, over-colesing, boil water advisories, the legacy of residential
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schools. It goes on like this, but she's just wrong. I think we can just say that she's deeply wrong
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about British Columbia and Canada. And also, if she feels guilty of being a colonizer,
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about being a settler, about being an uninvited guest, she can leave. Go move somewhere else. Go
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back to wherever your particular ancestors came from. I think Canada should be an open society
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where people who want to be Canadian are allowed to show up and be Canadian. That's why our current
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immigration system sucks, because we get a bunch of people who could care less about Canada showing
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up for a job because there's money, and then they're either going to leave eventually, or they're just
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going to stick around here and try and turn their patch of Canada into wherever home was. We see
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that all over the place with literal street fights by people from Eritrea or whatever going on. It's
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ridiculous. Who the heck allowed this to go on? You don't get to bring tribal fights from home to this
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country. But that's not what we're talking about today. This was insane. This was absolutely insane.
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And the fact that the BC NDP let her stand up and say this is just political malpractice. I'm just
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putting on my BC NDP hat right now. I couldn't stand them. I'm conservative. In fact, I'm conservative
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to the point where I don't put up with the fake conservatism of the BC conservatives. Most of their
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MLAs are good, but the BC conservatives are being led by woke scolds, basically. Most of them could do good
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stuff if they weren't under the thumb of John Rustad, Alia Warbus, Eleanor Sturko, Amelia Boltby,
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and people like that, Peter Milibar, Scott McInnes. If those people were gone, Gavin Dew, you might
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actually be able to get a conservative party. But that's beside the point. Let's pretend that I'm
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BC NDP at this point. You won the last election off of the backs of a lot of liberal voters, a lot of
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older liberal voters who, while they are not conservative, are not going to put up with stuff like this.
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Again, this is the elbows up crowd. Why would you get up and basically say, you know, you guys are
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scum, right? You know, you're a colonizer and an undivided guest, right? Like, oh my goodness,
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divest yourself of your base as fast as possible. I welcome it. But if I was running the BC NDP,
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goodness, I would put this lady on an ice float and push her out to sea. Because this is an extremely
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easy way of losing your moderate middle voters, because every single party has to basically be able
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keep its middle intact. Middle voters don't mean non-ideological voters. It means a voter who,
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if you get a little bit too crazy with the rhetoric, they're going to get turned off
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pretty quickly. Even if it's not something that's guiding your actual policy, they'll get really
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kind of like, I'm not a colonizer and I don't want to vote for your party. But anyways, now I want to
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get to some of the responses to this. Because I found the way the conservatives have been reacting to
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this to be endlessly annoying. First, let's check out this thing that the conservatives just posted
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yesterday. This post pretending like they are against this rhetoric. So the BC Conservative Party
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says, there are no settlers or uninvited guests. There are just British Columbians. This province belongs
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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.
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And it has, there are no settlers quote from him. There are only British Columbians. John Rustad,
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what a powerful statement. Didn't he kick out Dallas Brody, the lady who he was in fact copying
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the post of because she was the first one to post that clip of that NDP MLA, condemn what she said
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and call it out for how crazy it was. He literally copied her to the point where they actually took my
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clip of it because I work for Tara Armstrong and I had ended up clipping that video and gave it to
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Dallas because she wanted it clipped. They literally posted my clipping of the video after
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Dallas had already sounded off about it. So the BC Conservatives were not planning on talking about that
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until Dallas Brody talked about it. But John kicked her out of the party for calling out the nonsense
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of the Graves hoax at the Kamloops residential school. There are not 215 dead bodies there.
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Even John has acknowledged that post kicking her out. And now he's going to tell us that we need to
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stop the culture wars and cancel culture and we need to stand up for British Columbians.
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His entire party is in favor of special rights depending on your ethnicity. One of them the
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other day stood up to champion, I'm not even kidding, a $32 million taxpayer funded museum for South Asian
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Canadians. And yes, I don't want that. I don't want a South Asian Canadian museum. I don't want a
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Chinese Canadian museum. I don't want a British Canadian museum, an Irish Canadian museum. You
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could have it, but it shouldn't be funded by taxpayers if it's not just general history. If
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it's not just regional history or BC cultural history. If it's one specific group where we're
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going to skip through history to grab this person and we'll skip this few years and oh, there's someone
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from this group. That's not a real history museum that taxpayers should be funding. It's a interest group
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museum. And this is also stuff the BC conservatives are saying. So they're opposed to the idea that BCers,
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British Columbians are settlers. That's divisive. But we're still in favor of DRIPA, which is basically
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the BC government's legislated version of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People.
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DRIPA basically allows ban councils to stop projects all day long. It gives a lot of other special benefits
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to people who are First Nations. It does make them a higher level of British Columbian. And this is
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something that a BC conservative MLA said, the house leader, in fact, at Alia Warbus.
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There needs to be a recognition that it be afforded the time it takes to have the alignment with DRIPA
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and that Indigenous leaders are going to be on side with any changes to legislation that's going to
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affect them. That's very clear. She said this, and it's not just her. I will pull up other examples.
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You could say maybe she is just a radical who got into the party, but this is not actually
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representative of what the party believes. Well, this happened just a couple of days ago. In the midst
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of John's op-ed, Peter Milibar, one of their guys from Kamloops, a conservative MLA, Peter Milibar,
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says, I sincerely wonder what the three BC NDP caucus members, who are all strong Indigenous
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leaders, think about having to toe the voting line that EB demands. I spoke to this in my Bill 15
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debate. If EB truly thinks he has the support of his caucus, allow a free vote on Bill 15 and 14.
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My goodness. So he's making a racial argument that shouldn't the three BC NDP Indigenous MLAs
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not like Bill 14 and 15, because it's trampling all over First Nations land title. One, guys,
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Bill 14 and 15 are bad bills. But they're, frankly, even those bills, as much as they suck,
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are technically better than the status quo. Now, I work with the three independent MLAs,
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and between the intolerable status quo and these crappy bills, they were just not going to vote.
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The NDP can pass them anyways, so why even get involved? So, but the conservatives,
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people like Peter Milibar, were getting up and basically saying these bills suck because they
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don't enforce environmental regulations hard enough. They don't give enough veto power to
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Indigenous bands. What? Is this a conservative party? So this is what I hate. When the BC conservatives
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get up and they say, we don't like this MLA's rhetoric about everyone being uninvited guests.
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That's gross. Everyone's a British Columbian. And then they're in favor of DRIPA,
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and then they argue against Bill 14 and 15, because they don't have enough. They're not
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like blocking projects enough. They don't allow Indigenous band councils that only represent like
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a few hundred people to be able to block pipelines and mines and forestry projects.
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Here's another BC conservative MLA, Scott McInnes. Here is him arguing against 14 and 15.
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Do you live in small town BC? What was the last time the premier spent any significant time in your
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community? Here in rural British Columbia, where it's already hard enough to get infrastructure
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projects moved to the front of the line, Bill 15 will most certainly make it that much harder.
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That's literally not even true. I don't like Bill 15. That is a ridiculously asinine position on
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Bill 15. He'll even contradict himself in the next few seconds here because he doesn't know what he's
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doing. Bill 15 essentially allows the government to handpick projects for infrastructure that it
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deems as provincially significant. No oversight, no discussion, no accountability.
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So he, and this is why people like Scott McInnes, and I have tapes of him in the legislature getting
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up and saying, First Nation bands don't like this because it doesn't allow them to have veto power.
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It doesn't allow them to have endless consultations. It doesn't have enough environmental
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oversights. Sorry, does the bill slow down infrastructure projects or does it speed them up?
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Because my problem with the bill was the first, was the second part. It handpicks projects the
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province likes, and I don't think that's right. You should have to fast track all projects in a region,
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which we are trying to get done in an amendment as the three independent MLAs. Jordan Keeley, Dallas
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Brody and Tara Armstrong are going to try and put forward amendments that universalize the bill to just
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be mass deregulation. And that's it. The EB in his cabinet don't get to pick that project and that
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project, but not the other ones. So he's saying that the bill is going to make it harder to build,
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but it actually lets the government fast track projects it likes. Okay, well, what's the,
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what's your point here, Scott? This is not what good governance is. Bill 15
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has completely sidelined local governments. It has completely sidelined the voice of First Nations.
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The Premier needs to listen to British Columbians. The opposition to Bill 15 is significant. I'm
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urging the Premier to reconsider and pull Bill 15 off the table. The problem is that he and the
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Conservatives are not opposing Bill 15 from the right. They are opposing Bill 15 from the left.
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They are literally joining with the BC Greens to make arguments I only thought the BC Greens would make,
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basically saying these bills should be even like the project process needs to even be more hamstrung
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by consultations. I don't like 1415 because they're arbitrary. 14 only applies to renewable
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projects, fast tracking those. That's why we're going to try and amend it, that it has to apply to
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all types of energy projects and resource projects. And that again, they can't pick winners and losers.
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They have to say, we fast track all projects in this region. And that's how it works. They can't just
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say that one and not that one. But then the Conservatives are basically saying, no, no, no,
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we want everything to be slow forever because they're just opposing stuff blindly without actually
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thinking through what their argument is. Some other stuff we got going on here. Actually,
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know what? Let's talk about something positive. Know who's actually doing something positive? Well,
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not shockingly, it's Dallas Brody again, one of the independent MLAs. She is rolling out and I
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encourage you all to go and check it out if you're in British Columbia and sign the petition.
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It's dropdripa.ca to get rid of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People that is blocking
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all projects. It's a ridiculous piece of legislation that centralizes power in the hands of very few
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people who are incentivized to basically be obstinate because they can then sign a deal that may give them
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financial benefits to their local government. And these are oftentimes governments who are already
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getting tens of millions to over hundreds of millions of dollars in communities where there's
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only like, again, a few hundred people on some of these reserves. But here is Dallas Brody talking
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about it. Hi, Dallas Brody here. In 2019, David Eby, John Rustad and every other MLA in the legislature
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passed the most racist and radical law in British Columbia's history. It's called the Declaration on the
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Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, more commonly known as DRIPA. DRIPA entrenches the racial divisions
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between Indigenous and non-Indigenous British Columbians. How does it do that? Well, first,
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DRIPA transfers public and private lands to Indigenous bands who are not accountable to BC laws,
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to BC voters, or even to their own members. And she's absolutely right. There was a situation that
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happened on Haida Gwaii, which I've been told it was renamed. I actually, I'm not from BC, so I didn't
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remember that it was like Queen Charlotte Island or something like that before. I probably butchered
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that and I probably didn't even say the right name. But she is right. You can do whatever you want,
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even to other Indigenous people. There were some people who were not even associated in a nasty way,
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were family members related to somebody who was a drug dealer on Haida Gwaii. That person was punished,
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arrested or something. But then the ban council just decided, the community just decided, let's
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bulldoze the houses of people that were related to this person and drive them out. And guess what?
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The province hasn't done anything about it because they can't do anything about it. They're allowed
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to do it. It's their land. And the people who owned those homes, they're uninvited guests, even if
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they were Indigenous. They are uninvited guests because it's not their land. It's the ban council's land.
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British Columbia is a great example of why Soviet socialism doesn't work. Because all 200 ban
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councils basically act like Russian Soviets, where it doesn't matter if you're Indigenous or
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non-Indigenous. If you have a foreign, a logging project that you want started, if you want to open
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up a mine, the ban council can just say no. It's not like you're Indigenous so you can do it. No,
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no, no, ban council just says no and that's it. And so I think that that's why it's absolutely a good
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idea to be getting rid of DRIPA. Second, DRIPA gives veto powers to BC's 200 plus bans over
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government decisions, blocking approvals for resource development, infrastructure and other
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areas of our economy. Third, DRIPA dictates that all BC laws, all laws, be rewritten to conform with
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Indigenous laws, even though many of these laws are unwritten myths, cultural practices that are not
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compatible with a democratic rules-based society. DRIPA is the reason why Wet'suwet'en chiefs
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expelled law-abiding workers from the LNG Canada pipeline project. DRIPA is the reason why Haida
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leaders demolished the homes of citizens recently who had committed no crime. DRIPA is the reason why
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provincial parks are being closed to the non-Indigenous public. Every British Columbian should
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have the same rights and the same opportunities, including Indigenous British Columbians living in
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poverty on reserves without charter rights or the ability to own private property.
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That's again, something that people don't know. Oftentimes it's not like, oh no, Indigenous
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people get to own private property on Indigenous land. No, no, the ban council does. Indigenous
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people don't own anything. That's the problem. This is actually why all these things are kind of
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racist to Indigenous people. It's basically treating them like they're incapable and they must have a
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government manage everything for them, whether it's the local ban council, the federal government or the
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provincial government. But now I want to move on to one other thing. So in the midst of all this,
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where are some of the woke MLAs? Where's Alia Warbus? She follows me, by the way. I think she does
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secretly like me, even though she attacks me quite a bit now. But where was, I'm just going to scroll
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through. Where's, where's her sharing John Rustad's op-ed? Where is that? She didn't share this one
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about Indigenous leaders saying 14 and 15 need to be, need to go because, you know, they're not pro-Indigenous
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enough. She'd do this. Where was she? We even called her out for being in favor of DRIPA. She said that we
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are wrong about what she said. But then when we followed up and asked her to then condemn DRIPA and say
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that she would want it repealed, nothing. Has John said that he wants DRIPA repealed? No. Has any MLA
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come forward since Warbus said that, well, the bill 14 and 15 are bad because they are not honoring
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DRIPA enough. They are not taking the time to fall in line with DRIPA. Not a single one of them has
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dared stand up and say anything different because she's basically the one who owns that issue now for
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the party. And although the BC Conservatives ran on repealing DRIPA, I guess they're just not going to do
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that anymore. And this is on multiple fronts. They're not in favor of cutting taxes, really.
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I don't even know a tax they even ran on cutting. They were like running on rebates, but rebates are
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not tax cuts. You have to do something to get the rebate. They don't really oppose SOGI 123 anymore.
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It's more so that they just think that age inappropriate books should be removed from
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libraries. And let's be clear, they're not age inappropriate. They are sexually inappropriate.
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Nobody at any age should be reading this garbage. And SOGI should not be taught in any classroom,
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no matter what age the kids are. I know it's not curriculum, but it's like basically an
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anti-bullying pedagogy or whatever you would call it. It's still basically allowing them to bring in
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more kind of like woke gender theory into the classroom to teach. It's bad. It's just overall
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a very foolish thing for them to have in any school. But now the Conservatives just say it's age
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inappropriate. So I guess if we only limit it to middle school and on, then it's okay. Or it has to,
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not under the under grade three. Tons of issues. They've just dropped. They just don't care
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much about getting resources developed. Now, apparently they have the same position as the NDP,
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that first environmental activist groups and band councils must be honored before we
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put any shovels into the ground to dig a new mine. But yeah, so they'll just keep opposing NDP rhetoric,
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but at the same time, they don't actually disagree with the direction of the NDP. And when they do,
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it's because the NDP is not being harsh enough when it comes to subjecting the BC economy to like
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putting it under the thumb of band councils who can just say no whenever. Anyways, all this stuff
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annoys me to no end. But I will be linking in the description below as well as pinned at the top of
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the comments to drop DRIPA petition. Make sure to sign it if you're in BC and you oppose DRIPA. I don't
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think that any government will succeed in making life better for British Columbians unless they're going to
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repeal DRIPA. That's why I just don't have any faith in the BC Conservatives right now. They won't
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get rid of all of the big problems. So what's the point of putting them into government? They will
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cut around the corners. They'll do better on drug policy, which is a massive failure of the BC NDP,
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a massive ideological failure where they don't even care that they're hurting people because
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what they're doing is ideologically correct. So the Conservatives are fine there, but you go to a
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bunch of other major areas of policy and they're, you know, I wish the NDP was more efficient is the
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argument. It's like, oh my goodness, how is this any different than like Andrew Wilkinson's BC Liberals or
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Christy Clark's BC Liberals? Kevin Falcon would actually like run circles around these guys when it
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comes to ideological conservatism. The man was literally more conservative than John Restead currently
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is. And the party has been taken over by about seven MLAs who can do and say whatever they want. And if
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someone in caucus currently says anything conservative, they will be attacked just like
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Eleanor Sturko and Alia Warbus. No, not her. It was Amelia Bowlby in this case. They attacked Heather
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Maas for inviting a Christian reform group to the legislature to talk on the issue of basically pro-life
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stuff, MAID, gender theory, SOGI 123. It was a reformed Christian organization that just advises on policy.
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And that was too far to those MLAs. And they attacked their own caucus member. Disgusting.
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Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys. Thank you for watching the video. Make sure to like
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