The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 20, 2024


Poilievre slams David Eby's NDP for ＂wacko＂ drug policy

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David E.B. Bonnie Henry Pierre Poilievre David Eby Abigail Steinberg Justin Trudeau Hayley Midler Phoenix Beck McGreevy Abby Hutchinson Nancy Henderson Kate Jongblood Bruce Bandman Anthony Koch John Rustad Andre Munro Adam Zivo Sarah Tau Abbotsford Volunteer Wyatt
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Dr. Bonnie Henry has a plan to sell illicit drugs in drug stores, gas stations, grocery stores and everywhere else in British Columbia. Is it a good idea or a bad one? And what will the federal Conservative Party have to say about it?

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00:00:00.000 To put it mildly, things have not been going well for British Columbia Premier David Eby and his BC NDP party.
00:00:08.240 Not only are the Conservatives now tied with them in the polls, with the Conservatives having far more momentum than the NDP,
00:00:14.660 the NDP only have 44% of voters considering voting for them, where the Conservatives have 51%,
00:00:20.740 and they still have a significant chunk undecided on whether or not they will consider voting for the Conservatives.
00:00:26.480 And now the NDP has all of these terrible news stories coming out to get them.
00:00:31.900 They have all the stories from Alberta of BC Safe Supply drugs making it out into the streets of Calgary and Edmonton and other major cities in Alberta.
00:00:40.320 There's other cities even further out from Alberta in the east where BC Safe Supply drugs are being sold by drug dealers
00:00:47.720 because they're totally safe, guys, but drug dealers don't see them as any different than the stuff that they already sell.
00:00:54.160 Yes, are they safer because it might have less fentanyl in it?
00:00:58.120 Sure, but when we're using the word safe between street meth and like, I guess, like pure uncut government meth,
00:01:05.760 I'm not going to put the, I think it really like waters down the term safe to apply it to the situation.
00:01:11.640 And now there's this absolutely crazy story from Bonnie Henry herself, Dr. Bonnie Henry, the chief medical officer of British Columbia,
00:01:21.900 just coming out and just slapping down a proposal on the table saying, how about, you know, just a little bit of an idea.
00:01:28.320 We sell illicit drugs.
00:01:30.320 We sell safe supply drugs in drug stores, gas stations, grocery stores, everywhere.
00:01:34.720 You can get them without prescription and all this stuff.
00:01:38.120 Absolutely pants on head, hair on fire crazy.
00:01:42.040 At the same time, you actually can't say that her idea is that crazy if you live in the NDP's world
00:01:49.160 because they think decriminalization saves lives.
00:01:51.640 They think safe supply saves people's lives.
00:01:53.720 Safe injection sites save people's lives.
00:01:56.040 So why would expanding safe supply be bad?
00:01:59.220 Well, we're going to answer that question a little bit here.
00:02:01.300 But now I want to get over to the response that federal Conservative Party leader, Pierre Polyev, had to this crazy situation.
00:02:09.280 I like Pierre Polyev getting involved right now because if he wants to be an effective prime minister for the whole country, he needs David Eby gone.
00:02:16.920 David Eby is going to hold up his plans to axe the carbon tax across the country.
00:02:21.120 His drug policies are going to be a nightmare for the federal Conservative government to deal with.
00:02:25.560 So it's far better to have John Rustad and the Conservatives running British Columbia before Polyev moves on to smashing Justin Trudeau and throwing him out of office.
00:02:34.920 But before I get into what Polyev said, I just want to remind you guys, if you live in B.C., make sure to donate to the B.C. Conservatives.
00:02:42.160 You actually are only allowed to donate a maximum of $1,400, where I know most people aren't going to do that.
00:02:47.500 But that means that the party cannot really rely on big donors because big donors can't be that big.
00:02:52.280 So make sure you donate $100 because you get 75% back on your taxes.
00:02:56.620 They need every dollar they can get in order to print literature, run ads, all that other stuff.
00:03:01.240 I'm going to send in the link to Bruce Bandman's donation link below or just the general link.
00:03:08.760 I'm going to be going out to Abbotsford actually today to go out and help the B.C. Conservatives try and win this election.
00:03:14.800 It's very winnable.
00:03:15.740 And I'm there to try and swing some of these ridings in the Metro Vancouver sort of donut around there.
00:03:22.300 Anyways, here is what Polyev was responding to.
00:03:25.380 He first posts a screenshot of a headline from the National Post, an article written by Adam Zeevo that reads,
00:03:31.800 And so Polyev then responds, and I think this is a very incisive response.
00:03:46.600 He says,
00:03:47.000 The only reason that B.C.'s radical NDP didn't go ahead with the wacko idea to legalize and sell hard drugs everywhere is fear they'll lose the election.
00:03:56.820 If E.B. and Trudeau win, there will be tax-funded narcotics everywhere for everyone.
00:04:02.220 I will close the drug dens, ban the drugs, fire the radicals, treat addicts, and bring our loved ones home drug-free.
00:04:08.900 Very good comment.
00:04:10.060 It's not very long, but it gets to the heart of David E.B.'s strategy on this issue.
00:04:15.680 If David E.B. truly disagrees with Bonnie Henry, the woman who he could fire at any given time, he would have fired her a long time ago.
00:04:23.500 He was totally okay with her crazy recommendations on lockdowns, masking, vaccines in the past.
00:04:29.700 He's totally fine with all that.
00:04:31.180 He was totally fine with continuing the mandates under Bonnie Henry's recommendation to keep unvaccinated nurses and doctors from coming back to work. 0.94
00:04:40.420 It's the year 2024, and there are, I think, over 2,000 nurses and doctors not allowed to work in British Columbia still.
00:04:46.900 Absolutely insane.
00:04:47.960 You wonder why wait times are spiking all across the province.
00:04:51.880 At the same time, David E.B., and this will be a totally different video I'll make, David E.B. and the NDP are now trying to attack the Conservatives for, like, being bad on the issue of healthcare and supposedly cutting spending when they've never proposed anything close to cutting spending.
00:05:05.700 They're probably going to, in fact, increase spending.
00:05:07.720 The population has gone up so much, the B.C. healthcare system actually could use a few more dollars here and there.
00:05:13.620 But so when David E.B. feigns, like, shock and horror at what Bonnie Henry has just proposed of selling, you know, meth at a Safeway pharmacy, no, I don't actually see that as legitimate.
00:05:27.860 That's not legitimate shock, because every part of David E.B.'s drug policy points to doing something like that.
00:05:35.420 Like, he's trying to clean up his act a little bit going into this election.
00:05:38.660 He hasn't walked away from decriminalization, though.
00:05:40.920 He's not walked away from safe supply.
00:05:42.740 He's not walked away from safe injection sites.
00:05:44.640 He's fully on board.
00:05:46.020 The most he's doing to pretend he's moderating a little bit is passing new ordinances saying, guys, please don't use meth on a playground.
00:05:56.200 Please don't use heroin right next to the children's soccer game, which is nothing.
00:06:02.080 That's a nothing policy.
00:06:03.240 One, he's not going to enforce it because he doesn't enforce any of the illegal camping laws that are already on the books.
00:06:08.420 But David E.B.'s just trying to go around the ever so slightly around the edges of his current policy to pretend that he's somehow moderate and he's listening.
00:06:16.920 He is not. 0.99
00:06:17.740 If he actually disagreed with what Bonnie Henry said, he would have tossed her out on her butt. 0.98
00:06:23.640 She would not have a job because that is demonstrating that someone seems a little bit, at least in my opinion, mentally unbalanced, that they are going to tell you that, or at least you'd hope they're mentally unbalanced, that they're going to tell you that the way that we save more people is doing, is literally just selling hard drugs in grocery stores. 0.97
00:06:42.120 And as crazy as that sounds, again, based on the rest of the safe supply and decriminalization views that David E.B. has, why is that even a bad idea?
00:06:51.660 Like, I know it's crazy, but why does David E.B. think it's crazy?
00:06:54.980 Because in his mind and in his opinion, more safe supply makes more people safe.
00:07:00.000 And right now you can only get safe supply from specific government-controlled locations.
00:07:04.680 And so why shouldn't they be everywhere?
00:07:06.700 Because what happens if you're not close to a safe supply distributor?
00:07:10.320 You're on another part of the city and you can't get it.
00:07:12.900 It's like 15 blocks away.
00:07:14.700 Why wouldn't you buy it illegally?
00:07:16.000 Or maybe you can't get your fix or whatever.
00:07:18.280 You can't get your safe injection at a safe injection site.
00:07:21.540 Why shouldn't this be offered everywhere?
00:07:23.000 It keeps you far safer rather than having to travel between your house and the small island that gives you your drugs every day.
00:07:29.320 It should be everywhere.
00:07:30.700 Obviously, they shouldn't.
00:07:31.920 But in David E.B.'s mind, they should be.
00:07:34.240 But here's also, this is something that Anthony Koch posted the other day.
00:07:38.460 I just want to give him credit for having to actually, you know, subjected himself to reading significant portions of what Bonnie Henry was proposing.
00:07:46.360 I know you could say, well, why haven't you read it?
00:07:48.340 Guys, it's insane that you don't have to read it past the headlines of what it's proposing to do.
00:07:54.320 It does not require deep reading.
00:07:56.280 I always get that from, like, policy wonks who are really into the detailed policy.
00:08:00.500 And they'll, like, tell me, like, hey, why?
00:08:02.520 On page 85, it gets good.
00:08:04.700 If a policy gets good on page 85, it's a bad policy and you're reading into it way too much.
00:08:12.700 But this is the people who worked on this report.
00:08:15.020 It's a little hard to see.
00:08:16.280 I'll just sort of go down name by name.
00:08:18.900 So all these people who are working on this report just define who they are as individuals and, you know, where they were raised and stuff like that.
00:08:26.320 So we have Sarah Tau, white settler, residing on territory and raised in territory because I cannot read whatever native language this is.
00:08:36.200 Dr. Yonabeth Nava de Escalande, first generation Canadian settler of mixed Latin American, European, and YU ancestry.
00:08:47.040 Kate Jongblood, white occupier. 0.98
00:08:50.180 Andre Munro, white settler.
00:08:52.120 Abby Hutchinson, white settler.
00:08:54.000 What else do we have here?
00:08:55.140 Phoenix Beck McGreevy, white settler of mixed European ancestry.
00:08:59.720 Nancy Henderson, white settler of English, Irish, Scottish ancestry.
00:09:03.640 Hayley Midler, English, Scottish, and Irish heritage born.
00:09:06.760 At least I give Hayley, I give her some credit for not saying white settler or occupier.
00:09:12.800 Dr. Abigail Steinberg, white occupier of mixed European and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
00:09:19.940 Oh, my goodness.
00:09:21.200 Also, I put so much money down on this lady Steinberg here. 1.00
00:09:24.780 They're also hating Israel because if you're a self-hating white person in Canada who's upset from even being in the living here, you probably are also a Jewish person who thinks Hamas is right. 0.99
00:09:37.500 Like, it's just one of those things.
00:09:38.920 It's a one-to-one transfer from somebody who believes that one thing that's super woke and the other person who believes that other thing that's super woke.
00:09:45.980 But yeah, so David Eby is not having a good time.
00:09:49.860 Let's be very clear.
00:09:51.400 If he's re-elected, he can totally do Bonnie Henry's recommendation.
00:09:56.020 Yes, he says he's not going to do it now.
00:09:58.020 She's not fired.
00:09:58.960 If he wins re-election, he 100% pushes something like this because he's never held himself back in the past.
00:10:04.800 And the only factor we have to explain why he's saying no now is the election.
00:10:10.480 So if the election stops being a factor, let's not gamble on the idea that he's just going to walk away from this and say, I already said it's a bad idea.
00:10:20.800 I'm not bringing it back up.
00:10:22.400 He 100% will.
00:10:23.420 Or he'll at least do a small pilot project, just a small one.
00:10:26.920 Let's just do it a few London drugs. 0.98
00:10:28.320 And then let's just expand it a little bit and buy like five, six years time.
00:10:32.220 It's just absolutely everywhere.
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00:12:06.840 This is why I actually advocate for it.
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00:12:17.200 And in Canada, we have it so that you're artificially capped at caring about politics up to $1,700 federally and only $1,400 provincially.
00:12:26.160 And mark my words, the BC NDP is going to get crazy amounts of in-kind contributions from the unions, from the media and other activist organizations who are going to spend their own money on just promoting people to get out the vote.
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00:12:45.580 So, yeah, it's crazy.
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