The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 19, 2024


Pierre Poilievre is going after BC Premier David Eby over his insane drug policy

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David Eby Pierre Poilievre Justin Trudeau Doug Ford Erin O'Toole Pierre Pauly John Rustad
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British Columbia Premier David Eby has become a target for Conservative Party Leader Pyra Poly Polyven and his supporters in order to force him to back down on some of his most radical policies, like the carbon tax, carbon taxes, and the decriminalization of drugs.

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00:00:00.000 Because British Columbia Premier David Eby is so vulnerable right now, as well as is rightfully
00:00:06.260 viewed as one of the main champions of some of the most radical left-wing policy currently
00:00:10.600 ruining Canada, federal Conservative Party leader Pyra Polyev seems to be making an example out of
00:00:16.740 David Eby, because even though federal party leaders don't usually comment on what individual
00:00:22.020 premiers are doing unless they also happen to be the prime minister at the time, Pyra Polyev is
00:00:26.880 focusing a lot of fire on David Eby, because one, I don't think he actually views Justin Trudeau as a
00:00:32.220 real competition anymore on the national level. He's like 12 to 20 points ahead of the Liberals,
00:00:37.460 so why bother talking about Justin Trudeau all day long? And also because I think that Pyra Polyev
00:00:43.760 wants to kind of shatter David Eby in British Columbia in order to kind of put to rest all of
00:00:50.720 the sort of trendy, in vogue, radical left-wing policies by going after the main champion of
00:00:56.480 them. And this is things like the carbon tax, decriminalization, defunding of the police,
00:01:01.760 just lax policing laws. So he's going to go after David Eby, force David Eby to harden his resolve
00:01:08.380 on these radical policies, and have David Eby basically destroy himself before the next BC
00:01:13.920 provincial election. All other premiers, NDP, Liberal, Conservative, Quasi-Conservative like Doug Ford,
00:01:20.500 have all gotten behind Pyra Polyev on many issues. They're not acting ideologically,
00:01:25.740 they just realize that there is a strong consensus on a lot of these issues like pausing the carbon
00:01:30.740 tax or scrapping it all together, getting rid of decriminalization, parental rights. So everyone's
00:01:35.360 lining up behind Pyra Polyev, especially knowing that he's probably going to be the next prime
00:01:40.160 minister of Canada. So why end up slapping at him? And now, Pyra Polyev is going after the one 0.99
00:01:45.900 premier trying to resist him, and effectively standing against common sense just to spite
00:01:52.080 conservatives, standing up for the most radical policies that even he, a couple of years ago,
00:01:57.660 had acknowledged were not working. David Eby flirted with getting rid of decriminalization,
00:02:01.540 but because conservatives had basically also said that they want to see drug decriminalization end,
00:02:07.540 now David Eby is like doubling and tripling down on it, purely out of spite. David Eby is a very
00:02:12.540 childish person. And previously, when Polyev just simply asked him, hey, join the Axe tax movement,
00:02:18.300 get rid of your provincial carbon tax. David Eby called the Axe tax movement his baloney factory
00:02:24.380 campaign and effectively insulted everyone who was going to be voting conservative in BC, saying they
00:02:30.860 were unserious, and that he actually does a serious job as the premier of British Columbia,
00:02:35.880 a job he is terrible at. And so that ended up hurting David Eby a lot in the polls.
00:02:41.900 And now, Pure Polyev is coming back for seconds and saying, hey, David Eby, have you ever thought
00:02:47.460 of not decriminalizing drugs and not giving out safe supply drugs and, you know, not almost
00:02:53.460 intentionally poisoning your people through negligence? And now David Eby and his health minister are
00:02:59.440 doubling down on their drug decriminalization policy, saying it's actually saving tons of lives,
00:03:04.300 it's a great program, you're not giving it a chance, and no, just because the federal health
00:03:08.740 minister is coming to our province to discuss our crazy policies does not mean that there's any sort
00:03:13.380 of issues with them or any way. So yeah, David Eby is shooting himself in the foot. Pure Polyev just 1.00
00:03:18.860 keeps asking David Eby, would you like to shoot yourself in the foot? Would you like to allow John
00:03:22.880 Rustad to win the next BC provincial election? And David Eby is like, of course I would, and just
00:03:27.600 shoots himself again in the foot. It's such stupid politics. Pure Polyev yesterday had posted quite a 1.00
00:03:33.780 bit about David Eby's policies. And he's tying Justin Trudeau to David Eby because Justin Trudeau
00:03:39.940 is not a very popular figure, and David Eby is not a very popular figure. And by packaging them
00:03:44.620 together, I think that Pure Polyev is effectively guaranteeing he might win up to 50% of the vote in
00:03:51.140 British Columbia. But in this tweet, Pure Polyev said, Trudeau and the Liberals and Eby NDP finally
00:03:57.000 forced to face the chaos and destruction their own actions have caused. We've warned of the crime and
00:04:01.740 chaos caused by the radical NDP liberal policies for years, ban hard drugs, treat addicts, stop the
00:04:06.680 crime, common sense. And in the aftermath of Pure Polyev highlighting the report that the
00:04:13.340 decriminalization policies were failing and it was creating crazy amounts of chaos in British
00:04:17.520 Columbia, David Eby is now hardening his resolve on why decriminalization is actually fantastic,
00:04:24.320 even though British Columbia has become the drug overdose and death capital of Canada. They can say
00:04:30.440 all they want about this is trying to keep people from dying. But the problem is when you lower the
00:04:35.160 barrier to entry and you incentivize the behavior of using drugs by basically saying it's much safer
00:04:41.060 than it is in other provinces because we will revive you on the streets, we will have safe supply
00:04:46.360 services and all that, you can't be surprised that people start using hard drugs. And to rational
00:04:51.080 people, that sounds insane. It doesn't matter what safety net there is, I'm not using fentanyl.
00:04:54.900 But people react to incentives. And although you and I wouldn't do it, a lot of people would.
00:05:00.500 David Eby knows this. This is why he even thought of getting rid of decriminalization because it was
00:05:05.860 creating so many new addicts. And now he is not willing to do it simply because Pure Polyev is now
00:05:11.780 against it. And Pure Polyev in this Czech News interview, I will link in the description below,
00:05:17.260 then sort of solidified his point and made a very concise call at David Eby. This is going to be a
00:05:23.560 campaign ad in British Columbia during the provincial election. Pure Polyev going after 1.00
00:05:28.480 David Eby and then all of David Eby's refusals to do the right thing. I'm calling on Justin Trudeau
00:05:35.800 and NDP Premier Eby to end the decriminalization and the tax subsidized drugs and immediately put all
00:05:44.400 our resources into recovery and treatment that will bring our loved ones home drug free. It's mayhem
00:05:52.200 after nine years of Trudeau and the NDP. We have, you know, people lying face first on the pavement
00:06:01.320 overdosing in all across Vancouver Island and the lower mainland. We have children in our schools
00:06:10.240 getting their hands on tax payer funded hydromorphone drugs. And we have a massive crime spree
00:06:18.320 that Trudeau and the NDP have unleashed. Enough is enough.
00:06:24.200 Who could disagree with that? That is the most reasonable common sense ask of Trudeau and David
00:06:30.660 Eby. Trudeau has kind of been helping a lot of these pilot safe supply programs around the country.
00:06:35.480 But in reality, actually, technically, mostly is David Eby's fault in British Columbia. Also,
00:06:40.440 Doug Ford's allowing this in Toronto. So although he's a conservative, he's not acting very conservative.
00:06:45.560 But yeah, David Eby, because he's five years old, is now going to say, well, Pure Polyev's 0.99
00:06:51.340 baloney factory is just spitting out a bunch of stupid rhetoric about drugs and he's making the 0.99
00:06:57.400 topic sound so easy to solve or whatever. He's going to do all this stuff and he's not going to 1.00
00:07:02.340 get rid of this policy, which is going to make it the mainstay of his reelection bid. Everyone is
00:07:07.700 going to know that David Eby refused to get rid of carbon tax, refused to get rid of decriminalization,
00:07:12.380 refused to get rid of safe supply, and they're going to vote for the BC Conservatives. Why do you think
00:07:17.060 so many pollsters are showing the polling shifting towards the BC Conservatives, a party that basically
00:07:22.360 didn't exist a year and a half ago, is now within four to six points of the BC NDP, depending on what
00:07:28.460 pollster you look at. Yes, other ones show the BC NDP still further ahead, but it's usually like Leger or
00:07:33.780 Research Co, who tend to have more of an urban bias for who they poll. It's not going to look like a
00:07:40.160 five, six, seven point lead for the NDP when the election gets closer and voters start getting
00:07:44.760 serious about who they're going to vote for. The BC United have to go away and bridge Columbia.
00:07:49.160 They're not helping things. They're just NDP light. If you're not for the NDP, you're for the
00:07:53.920 Conservatives. There's no one saying, well, I want some decriminalization. I want some safe supply.
00:07:58.100 I want some carbon tax. So the United represent nobody's real positions. And I think when BC Conservatives
00:08:04.520 or when BC residents have to seriously stare down the barrel of another four years of safe supply,
00:08:11.700 decriminalization, carbon taxes, defunding of the police like David Eby's tried to do,
00:08:16.900 they're going to go vote Conservative. So I urge you all, if you're in British Columbia,
00:08:20.820 vote Conservative. Tell your friends to get rid of safe supply by voting for the Conservatives,
00:08:25.140 because that's going to be the only way. It's great to see Pierre Pauly of actually girding up
00:08:30.120 upstart Conservative parties like the BC Conservatives. I hope he does this elsewhere.
00:08:34.940 And so when he is the Prime Minister of Canada, there is a complete blue wall across the country
00:08:39.720 of real Conservatives, so that even if we wanted to do constitutional amendments, we could do it.
00:08:45.000 If we wanted to get things done that need two thirds of the provinces in agreement,
00:08:49.220 we can get it done. Anyways, that should be it from me today, guys. If you want to donate to my
00:08:55.860 legal fund, it's in the description below. It's the Give, Send, Go link. We have a billionaire
00:08:59.740 Chinese developer suing us for defamation at the National Telegraph here. Defamation,
00:09:04.980 he cannot prove, and after two years has provided no evidence. We mentioned him in an article about
00:09:09.860 Aaron O'Toole and merely mentioned a Globe and Mail article about him. We effectively said nothing
00:09:15.500 new about him that wasn't already in the Globe and Mail article, and yet he was trying to sue us
00:09:19.420 for defamation for citing a source that had been published a year and a half before we had written
00:09:24.340 our article, our article that was only viewed by like 9,700 people. It's so pathetic, and it's cost 0.92
00:09:30.380 me $29,000 just defending myself. Anyways, that should be it for me today, you guys. Vote British 0.97
00:09:37.420 Columbia Conservatives.