The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 21, 2025


No property rights! Richmond sounds alarm on Insane Court case!


Episode Stats

Length

14 minutes

Words per Minute

174.85635

Word Count

2,536

Sentence Count

127

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

In this episode, we talk about the ruling from BC Supreme Court regarding Aboriginal title to Crown land in the city of Richmond, BC, and the implications for property ownership. We also discuss the Cowichan Band and the Musqueam First Nation's legal challenge to the ruling and the City of Richmond's response to it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. We have an absolutely crazy story coming out of British
00:00:06.300 Columbia over the past two days that should be concerning to every single property owner in
00:00:11.780 Canada because if it can happen in Richmond, BC, it can absolutely happen where you live.
00:00:18.780 So we had this court ruling about a month and a half ago or so called Cowichan Tribes vs. Canada
00:00:25.520 where the judge found that the Cowichan Ban Council effectively has aboriginal title over most of
00:00:33.920 the city of Richmond despite the fact that it is mostly fee simple land also known as private
00:00:40.460 property. Now technically the ruling was just about crown land. The problem with those saying
00:00:46.880 this doesn't actually affect your private property it's just talking about crown land is that the
00:00:52.240 crown is who designated portions of the land as fee simple. It started off as crown land and then
00:00:59.780 they allowed it to become private property but because the crown never legitimately owned it
00:01:05.300 that means that you don't actually own your own home. Now no I don't think the Cowichan Tribe is
00:01:11.820 going to steal your home from you but what this could end up possibly doing is allowing for bands
00:01:18.660 like the Cowichan Band to basically take some of your property taxes as revenue to them. And what
00:01:25.960 makes us extra ridiculous is that there's another lawsuit I believe from the Musqueam First Nation
00:01:32.340 suing the Cowichan First Nation for claiming it's their land because they also think it's their land.
00:01:38.040 Make it make sense. But we need to read this letter here and then I also want to talk about some other
00:01:43.000 things related to BC politics because things have been crazy here ever since I got to Victoria yesterday
00:01:49.700 and you guys need to hear about it. But we will first start off with this screenshot of the letter
00:01:55.320 that the city of Richmond has been putting out to homeowners. It was posted by Jim McMurtry who is now
00:02:00.980 actually the first 1BC candidate that we have announced. He will be running in the riding of Delta
00:02:07.120 South. So if you like 1BC who I work for and Jim McMurtry, check out the website for 1BC in the
00:02:14.140 description below. Just 1BC.ca. Check it out. I'll also have it pinned at the top of the comments.
00:02:21.260 So Jim here says, when will they come for your house? City of Richmond is telling homeowners that
00:02:26.820 the status and validity of their ownership is in doubt because a Vancouver Island ban said their
00:02:32.080 great-grandparents once fished there. And that is not an exaggeration at all.
00:02:37.120 This is actually what this gets into. So we will just read the letter. This is not a troll. This
00:02:43.140 was something that the city itself put out. Remember, pretty much every city government
00:02:48.260 in British Columbia is going to be pretty woke. So this is what a woke liberal government, or at least
00:02:55.920 tolerant of woke ideas type government, put out to its own homeowners because suddenly this all became
00:03:02.220 very real and we can no longer afford to be culturally sensitive because now we're talking
00:03:08.120 about homeownership. It says here, notice to registered owner. Please take note that recent
00:03:14.960 BC Supreme Court decision of Kalachan Tribes versus Canada 2025 BCSC 1490 made some very important
00:03:23.020 decisions which could negatively affect the title to your property. A briefing note prepared by the
00:03:28.100 City of Richmond staff is attached for your reference. If you look at the draft map attached to the briefing,
00:03:33.240 your property is located within the claimed area outlined in green. For those whose property is in
00:03:38.840 this area outlined in black, the court has declared Aboriginal title to your property, which may
00:03:43.720 compromise the status and validity of your ownership. This was mandated without any prior notice to the
00:03:49.560 landowners. The entire area outlined in green is claimed on appeal by the Kalachan First Nations.
00:03:55.380 Given the serious implications of the court decision and the pending appeal, this city is hosting an
00:04:00.040 information session to be held on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 at 7pm at Richmond City Hall. We hope that
00:04:07.400 you can intend to learn more about this important situation. Now, I actually really like that this is
00:04:13.400 happening in Richmond BC, not because I have any dislike of the people of Richmond. In fact, I very much like
00:04:20.280 the people of Richmond BC because it is a disproportionately Asian Canadian city. And the thing is, what I love most
00:04:28.520 about Asian Canadians is that they do not care about woke nonsense, for the most part. Yeah, you'll get some
00:04:35.160 woke politicians from specific from those specific communities in Canada as well. But you're not going
00:04:40.600 to get a lot of Chinese or Korean or Japanese Canadians willing to put up with this, which is why it may be the
00:04:47.720 perfect place to push back on this court ruling. Whereas if you did this in Victoria, they would probably just
00:04:54.200 go along with it in Victoria, they almost already act in the city like they don't even own their own
00:04:59.480 property. But what this basically is attempting to do is say that whatever you purchased, you didn't
00:05:06.680 actually purchase because truly 150 years ago, 100 years ago, this may have been potentially a Kalachan
00:05:16.600 fishing village. Now, the Musqueam dispute that. They say it could have also been there. So it's just
00:05:22.760 horseshoes at this point. We don't know who owns anything. And this is also not how government should
00:05:28.360 be run. Now, I was going to go through and show you what people like the BC Attorney General Nikki
00:05:34.920 Sharma had said about this, or even the Premier David Eby had said about this. But they truly didn't say
00:05:41.320 anything on social media. Now, they've talked to the media when they've been hounded by this. I was just in
00:05:47.560 the legislature today. And they had multiple MLAs, including our one BC leader Dallas Brody asking
00:05:53.480 them questions on why they seem to be throwing the case. And they're not really messaging on this
00:05:58.920 issue because they're not doing a very good job on it. They've effectively let the Kalachan win
00:06:04.200 because they're not actually arguing in court for the legal extinguishment of Aboriginal title.
00:06:10.200 Because if you don't argue for extinguishment, you're basically saying that
00:06:14.120 any vague ownership that someone had at any time back in history can now apply today. Even
00:06:21.000 though there's no real legal records to prove that somebody was in use of an area that they
00:06:25.720 could actually claim to have ownership, it doesn't matter. If someone told a story that they were once
00:06:30.680 in an area, that is now equally valid to you who live in your house currently. Someone may have
00:06:38.520 no, you wanted to use this as a fishing village back in the day, is now basically of equal value to the
00:06:45.400 fact that you and your family live on that property and you like to play soccer with your
00:06:50.200 six-year-old kid in the backyard. It's absolutely ridiculous. This is not how law should work. It is the
00:06:57.320 undermining of Canada to just have horseshoe law like this where, you know, things don't really matter
00:07:02.600 all that much. What really matters is social justice before, you know, actual justice that
00:07:08.440 you own the things that you own and that we're not going to go back to the fossil record to determine
00:07:13.080 who really, really owns it. It's foolish. But now I need to talk about some other things that happened
00:07:19.160 today because BC politics is a complete clown show right now and yet another person has left the BC
00:07:27.320 Conservative Caucus. Now, if this was the only person to leave the BC Conservative Caucus, I'd
00:07:32.360 actually be congratulating John Rustad because they were one of the worst MLAs in the entire caucus
00:07:37.400 and they're not conservative at all. But this person's not leaving out of a principled reason,
00:07:42.680 they're just leaving because they actually were always a secret liberal that John Rustad insisted on
00:07:47.720 being a candidate and because even John wasn't being liberal enough for her, she's on her way out.
00:07:52.760 Quote, Rob Shaw here says, new Penticton Summerlands MLA Amelia Boltby is quitting the BC Conservative Caucus,
00:08:00.600 says John Rustad is handing next election to BC NDP, and quote, his failed leadership needs to end,
00:08:07.160 unquote, says he's resorting to intimidation to keep caucus from voting against him, calls on him to resign.
00:08:15.400 Now, I can agree with a Boltby that Rustad should resign. At the same time, Boltby should have
00:08:22.360 never been in caucus in the first place. She should have never been allowed to run for the Conservatives.
00:08:27.720 She, in fact, started attacking one BC for holding an event in Penticton, her riding, because we're
00:08:35.320 racist and phobic of some sort. She's a woke scold who the party simply ran because she was friends with
00:08:42.520 their former chief of staff. It's so stupid the kind of decisions that the BC Conservatives make and why
00:08:49.720 they make them. I, I now need to go to the next part of this, where John Rustad responded to Boltby
00:08:56.120 leaving in, honestly, it's kind of a funny response. Like, if, if he just became like some sort of roast
00:09:02.920 comedian like this, maybe I'd like John better. Uh, I love because Boltby attacked John for having a
00:09:09.480 problem with women, which is just stupid. He doesn't have a problem with women. He's just a bad leader.
00:09:15.960 And it just so happens that out of the five people who have left, four of them are women. Dallas Brody
00:09:21.240 and Tara Armstrong of the one BC party would never make that argument because it's stupid. But Boltby's
00:09:26.920 a woke scold, so she always makes a woke scold argument. But I love how John in this press conference
00:09:32.440 surrounds himself with four female MLAs because he's actually so pathetic. He has to try and respond
00:09:39.480 to Amelia's criticism by like surrounding himself with women. Like, see, I don't have a problem with
00:09:43.000 women. But his actual response is funnier than just that. He then says here, after Lou, Dropshaw says,
00:09:50.600 new, after losing his fifth MLA, John Rustad refuses to resign. Instead, he accuses Amelia Boltby of not
00:09:57.560 being supportive of caucus positions, such as EDU changes due to Soji. Also says she supports Amas,
00:10:04.280 says he had heard complaints from people in her writing about her. And then it goes on to say,
00:10:09.640 Rusted says Boltby has had mental health issues in the past, says he is concerned about her current
00:10:14.600 well-being, faces questions on if he has a problem with female MLAs after four more have departed caucus.
00:10:21.720 Now that's really funny for multiple reasons. One, the mental health thing is kind of funny because
00:10:27.080 Boltby frankly probably made up a story about how people threw rocks at her house, like multiple
00:10:34.360 vehicles pulled up and several individuals threw rocks at her house after our one BC event had gone
00:10:40.120 on. I can tell you it didn't happen. The communications staff of the BC Conservative Party
00:10:47.800 have never been able to get her to send photos of the apparent damage from people hucking rocks at her
00:10:52.200 house at her car because she probably made it up. And so I like that John's effectively admitting
00:10:56.760 that when he and other conservative MLA said, Oh, that's so concerning. So attached your attacked
00:11:01.160 your house that they probably knew she was lying the entire time. She's like the Jesse Smollett of BC
00:11:06.600 politics. You know, a bunch of people ran over to her house and chucked rocks and then they threw a
00:11:11.080 noose over her head and splashed with bleach and said, This is one BC country ran off into the night.
00:11:15.240 But whatever, you know, that's its own thing. And then she says she supports Hamas.
00:11:23.720 That's not actually untrue. In fact, it's nice to know that John reads my feed because I was the
00:11:29.960 one who went after her for being insane and saying that Israel, what Israel was doing in Gaza, i.e.
00:11:36.600 fighting Hamas was the worst thing since the Holocaust. It's the worst human right, like,
00:11:41.800 the worst war crime since the Holocaust. Okay. Not only is Israel fighting Hamas and civilian
00:11:48.600 casualties have basically been been guaranteed from Hamas refusing to surrender, hiding behind
00:11:54.280 civilians and putting a lot of their artillery and rockets around hospitals and schools. But even if
00:12:00.200 that stuff wasn't true, and it absolutely is true, Israel is not trying to murder civilians.
00:12:05.240 If they wanted to, the casualties would be way higher than they are because they've been,
00:12:08.920 in fact, trying to be very meticulous in a very tough situation. Urban combat is almost impossible
00:12:14.280 not to take civilian casualties in. And they have kept the ratio very low compared to basically every
00:12:20.440 other conflict in human history. But even if they were attacking civilians, my goodness, even if they
00:12:27.960 were killing all those people deliberately, you don't know about other war crimes that have been
00:12:33.320 committed since World War II that far outscaled us, even if they were attempting to commit war crimes,
00:12:39.080 which, again, they are not. The Cambodian genocide, Rwanda, stuff that happened in the Korean War,
00:12:46.680 Vietnam War, Soviet-Afghanistan War. Like, I could keep going. Stuff in Libya, in the Middle East, Syria,
00:12:55.400 Yemen. What are we talking about? Iran? She doesn't know about other war crimes that have
00:13:02.360 happened in human history? The Iran-Iraq war? Do you not think there was war crimes all over the place?
00:13:09.160 She's just out of her mind. And so I'm not actually that shocked to see her move on.
00:13:14.840 And I'm going to have to give you guys more updates about what's happening in BC. So today,
00:13:18.840 we have John Rustad pretending that he cares about the implications of this Cowichan decision that's
00:13:23.960 undermining people's property rights. On the same day that his party is voting for something called
00:13:28.440 Bill 27, which is like the miscellaneous something act or whatever, which part of it allows for more
00:13:35.320 meetings involving indigenous people on a municipal level to be in camera, meaning that they're behind
00:13:41.400 closed doors and you don't get to know what's going on. They voted for that, or they're at least
00:13:45.240 saying they're voting for it last time I was watching the legislative live feed like five
00:13:49.320 minutes ago. It's all just so stupid. Anyways, well, if you're in British Columbia, consider voting for
00:13:57.080 and joining the 1BC party. We're still a few years away from an election, but obviously there needs to
00:14:02.440 be somebody standing up for common sense in this province. And the only way that we're actually going
00:14:07.080 to make sure that the common sense is represented, and even make the conservatives more normal,
00:14:12.760 if there is a party to their right forcing them to be more normal or ceding more support over to us so
00:14:18.920 at the very least there isn't a conservative option on the ballot. Anyways, so with all that being said,
00:14:25.160 thank you guys for watching. Like, share, and subscribe, and I'll talk to you guys all later.