The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Pierre Poilievre slams David Eby for big flip-flop

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

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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 1.00

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 0.94

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 0.73

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 0.99

00:04:22.940 right move. But in the current political situation that David Eby is in, in his reelection effort, 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.99

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

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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,

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 13, 2024

Pierre Poilievre slams David Eby for big flip-flop

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