The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 13, 2024


Pierre Poilievre slams David Eby for big flip-flop


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12 minutes

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2,373

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126

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Summary

It s been a wild 24 hours in BC politics, and I m here to break it down for you guys. Yesterday, BC Premier David Eby suddenly declared that he might get rid of the provincial carbon tax if the federal government does it first. This is a really big tell that Eby and the BC NDP know that their re-election chances are slipping away.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 It's been an unpredictably wild last 24 hours in British Columbia provincial politics,
00:00:06.200 and I am here to break it down for you guys here today. I'm Wyatt Claypool, and before I get into
00:00:11.600 the topics today, I just want to ask you guys to subscribe to the channel, like this video,
00:00:16.320 and make sure we have as much reach as possible. More people need information on what's going on
00:00:21.140 in this election, and very few people cover provincial issues like this. So, getting into it.
00:00:27.120 Yesterday, BC Premier David Eby suddenly declared that he might get rid of the provincial carbon tax
00:00:35.180 if the federal government does it first. This is a really big tell that Eby and the BC NDP know that
00:00:44.020 their re-election chances are slipping away. The BC Conservatives and John Rustad definitely have
00:00:49.920 momentum, and Eby would not be doing this unless he was seeing internal polling that was confirming
00:00:55.900 some of the public polling showing the Conservatives starting to edge ahead. Not only edge ahead,
00:01:01.460 but I guarantee you, and this is what I've seen both from talking to people at the doors as a BC
00:01:06.620 Conservative campaigner, as well as studying other polls, the enthusiasm gap between NDP supporters
00:01:13.160 and BC Conservative supporters is wide. And so Eby needs to try and differentiate himself
00:01:19.520 from the hyper-progressive NDP brand that he has constructed. He is an activist through and
00:01:25.980 through, but now he's going to try and emulate Wab Kanu, and more recently Jagmeet Singh, in going
00:01:31.880 against the carbon tax for working class type reasons. Even though they do not actually care
00:01:37.420 about working class people, they just know that their position on the carbon tax has become extremely
00:01:43.280 unpopular. This is all quite funny, knowing that it was just a few months ago that Premier David Eby
00:01:50.340 attacked federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev for asking him politely, mind you, sent him
00:01:56.840 a written letter asking him to get on board with the Axe the Tax Movement. Wab Kanu, the Manitoba NDP
00:02:04.380 premier, jumped on board. He was happy to embrace Pierre Polyev's position against the federal carbon tax,
00:02:10.520 but David Eby literally said that Pierre Polyev and his Conservative Party campaign is like a baloney
00:02:16.820 factory. I want to bring up the exact quote here, but Pierre Polyev slammed David Eby just this morning
00:02:22.680 for this obvious flip-flop. Here's what David Eby said. I want to see what date it was. Yeah, this was
00:02:30.200 March 15th, 2024. This year, this is what David Eby said. This is a quote from Eby. He says,
00:02:36.700 I don't live in the pure Polyev campaign office and baloney factory. I live in BC. I am the premier
00:02:43.740 and decisions have consequences. The fact we face is that if we follow Mr. Polyev's suggestion,
00:02:50.200 there would be less money returned to British Columbians after April 1st than there would be
00:02:54.480 if the federal government administered this increase directly. What is, what was he even talking
00:02:59.940 about? BC actually just takes in all of its carbon tax revenues and puts it into general revenues. It
00:03:07.740 doesn't go towards any green initiatives. It doesn't go towards rebates. It is purely just a tax so that
00:03:14.000 the government can spend more on whatever it wants. But he was pretending that if the provincial government
00:03:20.800 got rid of its carbon tax, then the BC residents would be hemorrhaging money because it would go
00:03:25.880 towards the federal government and not to the BC government. As if the BC government is spending it
00:03:31.100 on anything useful for the residents of British Columbia. It is one of the most unaffordable
00:03:35.700 provinces to live in in the country. And I don't see anyone fearing the loss of the provincial carbon tax.
00:03:43.880 In fact, if Eby got rid of the provincial carbon tax right now, even though I don't like the federal
00:03:50.320 carbon tax either, at least people would get part of their money back in a rebate. So if he got rid
00:03:55.780 of it now, people would get the rebate. And then in a year when Pierre Polyev is likely the prime
00:04:00.060 minister, people could just keep all of their money because the carbon tax will be gone coast to coast.
00:04:05.640 But I now I want to jump over to what Pierre Polyev said about all this, because in the context of how
00:04:11.760 popular Pierre Polyev is, this was a stupid move for David Eby to make. Like, it's a smart move in the
00:04:17.820 sense that the carbon tax is stupid and you shouldn't be in favor of it and getting rid of it is the
00:04:22.940 right move. But in the current political situation that David Eby is in, in his reelection effort,
00:04:30.300 this just makes him look weak. He looks like he doesn't believe in his positions and he's willing
00:04:35.260 to shift on them in a dime. Same thing with the crack pipe vending machines. Suddenly, all the crack
00:04:40.520 pipe and snorting kit vending machines right in front of ERs around BC that he absolutely knew were
00:04:46.520 there. It's not like the government doesn't know what's in its own hospitals. Suddenly, they're all under
00:04:52.280 review because the BC conservatives pointed them out. It became a viral issue of people who haven't
00:04:57.580 visited ERs in a while realizing how insane the BC NDP government is. But they're under review now. So
00:05:03.120 it's not it's not an issue. Oh, David Eby's rational enough to put the the crack pipe vending machines
00:05:08.700 under review as if they should have ever been approved at all. He literally funded a study trying
00:05:13.600 to figure out whether or not all public washrooms should be turned into consumption sites. They funded
00:05:18.940 that study to millions of dollars. But as soon as it was pointed out by Adam Zeevo at the National
00:05:23.720 Post, oh, it's ridiculous. We were never going to use that plan. It was just studying the issue.
00:05:29.680 Why do you need to study something that stupid? And as many have pointed out online, what the
00:05:35.860 government's going to do is just put all the stuff under review. And then right after the election,
00:05:39.820 if they win, they'll just bring it all back and say, actually, it was super good that we were
00:05:43.900 giving crack pipes out through vending machines. And anyways, I'll just move on in a second here,
00:05:49.340 but I have to quickly. Sorry about that. Anyways. And then I just want to quickly get into the exact
00:05:54.960 thing that Pierre Polyev said now. He said, baloney factory, that is how the NDP leader labeled my
00:06:02.140 tax tax demand six months ago. Who is full baloney now? And I think that is exactly the response most
00:06:09.140 BC residents are going to have to David Eby saying this. One, David Eby is not actually saying that
00:06:14.380 he's going to get rid of the carbon tax. He's putting a bunch of stipulations on it, which means
00:06:18.260 he's not actually going to do it. He's effectively waiting to see if Justin Trudeau recovers in the
00:06:23.400 polls or not. Because if Trudeau recovers enough that maybe he could win another minority, I heavily
00:06:28.360 doubt it. Then David Eby presumably would just keep his provincial carbon tax. So he's trying to stake a
00:06:34.600 new position while not actually staking a new position. He's not getting rid of the provincial
00:06:38.580 carbon tax. He's only getting rid of it if the rest of Canada does it first, which means he's
00:06:42.880 still in favor of the carbon tax. And this is something very, I think, important to note on
00:06:50.280 why it's bad for David Eby to be antagonizing the federal conservatives. As strange as it sounds,
00:06:58.820 for David Eby to be reelected, he actually needs some crossover voters from the federal conservatives.
00:07:04.440 I really don't think that's going to happen. That's why I already think that David Eby is dead in
00:07:08.320 the water. But look at this. This is the latest Ipsos poll that came out that put the conservatives
00:07:13.700 at 45%. There's a couple of recent polls that put them at 45%. But this is the specific regional
00:07:19.320 results for British Columbia. It's 54% federal conservatives, 23% liberal, 17% NDP, 4% green,
00:07:29.020 2% PPC. 54% is a higher rating than I've seen from other polls. But other polls put the federal
00:07:36.120 conservatives at 50%, 45%, 47%. Very good results for the federal conservatives. And so if the BC
00:07:43.960 conservatives can even perform anywhere in the ballpark of the federal conservatives, they
00:07:48.940 probably win this election. For David Eby to win, he needs a good 5% to 8% of federal conservatives to be
00:07:56.380 willing to vote for him instead of John Rustad. Now, that really doesn't make any sense, because if
00:08:01.040 you're voting for pure Polyev, you probably agree with everything John Rustad has to say, because they
00:08:05.800 tend to overlap very heavily on policy. To vote for pure Polyev and David Eby would be an irrational
00:08:12.200 decision, because you're saying, I don't like the federal carbon tax, but I do like the provincial
00:08:16.660 carbon tax. Until 24 hours ago, apparently, now David Eby is trying to pretend that he is somewhat
00:08:22.600 aligned with pure Polyev. And if you vote for Polyev on a federal level, and Premier Eby is still in
00:08:28.860 office, well, then he will get rid of the provincial carbon tax in line with pure Polyev. He's trying to
00:08:34.360 thread that needle between people who, for some reason, don't want to vote Rustad, but will vote
00:08:38.920 Polyev on a federal level, and then might park their vote with Eby again, even though Eby's policies are
00:08:44.740 far more to the left of Justin Trudeau or Jagmeet Singh. His safe supply programs, his anti-police
00:08:53.740 stances, SOGI-123 in schools, the incredibly high taxes, are something that even Jagmeet Singh and
00:09:00.320 Justin Trudeau are not proposing publicly. And so I think this is an interesting gambit from Mr. Eby,
00:09:07.540 but I don't think it's going to work out. I actually made this meme yesterday, because it seems like
00:09:13.180 David Eby is pretty much pretending like he is a more conservative candidate than he is, and soon we
00:09:19.160 will be living in a world where David Eby will throw on a conservative hat just to signal that
00:09:24.780 maybe he's an okay person to vote for. But in response to all this, we have John Rustad here,
00:09:31.260 the BC conservative leader, saying,
00:09:33.360 Today, Premier David Eby has announced that he is running against his own policies and the record of
00:09:38.360 his NDP government. Eby's sudden about-face on the punishing BC NDP carbon tax is merely his
00:09:47.440 mealy-mouthed attempt to completely reverse on his failed policies. I should stop reading on this
00:09:52.820 show. I'm always bad when I read. But yeah, basically, he is just trying to flip-flop, pretend
00:09:56.840 that he doesn't support the things that he does support. And again, it just makes David Eby look weak.
00:10:02.860 David Eby looks like a man who's drowning and willing to do absolutely anything,
00:10:07.420 flailing about in the water, trying to save himself. I don't think it's going to work,
00:10:12.240 because one, it makes him look weak in front of his own progressive supporters,
00:10:16.260 who many of which might actually go and vote Green now, because at least the Greens are proud
00:10:20.580 about their carbon tax support. David Eby still supports the carbon tax, but he's kind of like
00:10:24.800 embarrassed about it at the same time. And if anything, this again ties his fortunes to Justin
00:10:31.200 Trudeau. He is basically saying that, yes, I support Justin Trudeau keeping the carbon tax,
00:10:37.020 because if he didn't, he'd get rid of his provincial carbon tax and then demand Trudeau
00:10:41.020 get rid of his federal one, because the provincial one is far more punishing than the federal carbon
00:10:46.240 tax, because at least, and it's weird I have to say this about Trudeau, at least Trudeau gives you
00:10:51.580 the rebate. It still doesn't cover the entire cost. Trudeau lies about that. But at least you get
00:10:56.560 something back. David Eby takes your money and then spends it on crack pipe vending machines,
00:11:01.460 spends it on free government meth. That's a terrible, he's not somehow more conservative
00:11:07.740 just because he's making this slight consideration that if the federal carbon tax goes away, he might
00:11:13.140 get rid of the provincial one. He's just frankly fooling around, pretending like he can shift on
00:11:20.540 policy through mere statements about what might happen in the future. But what's your policy now?
00:11:27.160 David Eby's policy now has not shifted, and that's his issue. Conservatives aren't going to come over
00:11:32.580 and vote for him just because of this, and now he's ticked off his progressive base that he relies
00:11:36.840 on very heavily. Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. If you live in BC, please donate to
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00:12:28.720 the top of the comments. Anyways, that's it for me today, guys. Sorry for being rambly. It's just a
00:12:34.340 lot of news and I have to, you know, go out and start door knocking again. My day is very chaotic.
00:12:39.080 I wake up in the morning, do campaign stuff, come back here, film a video, get up, go to campaign stuff,
00:12:44.420 go to an event in the night, and then, you know, try and fall asleep. Anyways, bye.