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?
00:00:00.000To put it mildly, things have not been going well for British Columbia Premier David Eby and his BC NDP party.
00:00:08.240Not only are the Conservatives now tied with them in the polls, with the Conservatives having far more momentum than the NDP,
00:00:14.660the NDP only have 44% of voters considering voting for them, where the Conservatives have 51%,
00:00:20.740and they still have a significant chunk undecided on whether or not they will consider voting for the Conservatives.
00:00:26.480And now the NDP has all of these terrible news stories coming out to get them.
00:00:31.900They 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.
00:00:40.320There's other cities even further out from Alberta in the east where BC Safe Supply drugs are being sold by drug dealers
00:00:47.720because they're totally safe, guys, but drug dealers don't see them as any different than the stuff that they already sell.
00:00:54.160Yes, are they safer because it might have less fentanyl in it?
00:00:58.120Sure, but when we're using the word safe between street meth and like, I guess, like pure uncut government meth,
00:01:05.760I'm not going to put the, I think it really like waters down the term safe to apply it to the situation.
00:01:11.640And now there's this absolutely crazy story from Bonnie Henry herself, Dr. Bonnie Henry, the chief medical officer of British Columbia,
00:01:21.900just coming out and just slapping down a proposal on the table saying, how about, you know, just a little bit of an idea.
00:01:53.720Safe injection sites save people's lives.
00:01:56.040So why would expanding safe supply be bad?
00:01:59.220Well, we're going to answer that question a little bit here.
00:02:01.300But now I want to get over to the response that federal Conservative Party leader, Pierre Polyev, had to this crazy situation.
00:02:09.280I 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.
00:02:16.920David Eby is going to hold up his plans to axe the carbon tax across the country.
00:02:21.120His drug policies are going to be a nightmare for the federal Conservative government to deal with.
00:02:25.560So 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.
00:02:34.920But 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.
00:02:42.160You actually are only allowed to donate a maximum of $1,400, where I know most people aren't going to do that.
00:02:47.500But that means that the party cannot really rely on big donors because big donors can't be that big.
00:02:52.280So make sure you donate $100 because you get 75% back on your taxes.
00:02:56.620They need every dollar they can get in order to print literature, run ads, all that other stuff.
00:03:01.240I'm going to send in the link to Bruce Bandman's donation link below or just the general link.
00:03:08.760I'm going to be going out to Abbotsford actually today to go out and help the B.C. Conservatives try and win this election.
00:03:47.000The 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.
00:03:56.820If E.B. and Trudeau win, there will be tax-funded narcotics everywhere for everyone.
00:04:02.220I will close the drug dens, ban the drugs, fire the radicals, treat addicts, and bring our loved ones home drug-free.
00:04:31.180He was totally fine with continuing the mandates under Bonnie Henry's recommendation to keep unvaccinated nurses and doctors from coming back to work.
00:04:40.420It's the year 2024, and there are, I think, over 2,000 nurses and doctors not allowed to work in British Columbia still.
00:04:47.960You wonder why wait times are spiking all across the province.
00:04:51.880At 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.
00:05:05.700They're probably going to, in fact, increase spending.
00:05:07.720The population has gone up so much, the B.C. healthcare system actually could use a few more dollars here and there.
00:05:13.620But 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.
00:05:27.860That's not legitimate shock, because every part of David E.B.'s drug policy points to doing something like that.
00:05:35.420Like, he's trying to clean up his act a little bit going into this election.
00:05:38.660He hasn't walked away from decriminalization, though.
00:05:40.920He's not walked away from safe supply.
00:05:42.740He's not walked away from safe injection sites.
00:06:03.240One, he's not going to enforce it because he doesn't enforce any of the illegal camping laws that are already on the books.
00:06:08.420But 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.
00:06:17.740If he actually disagreed with what Bonnie Henry said, he would have tossed her out on her butt.
00:06:23.640She 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.
00:06:42.120And 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?
00:06:51.660Like, I know it's crazy, but why does David E.B. think it's crazy?
00:06:54.980Because in his mind and in his opinion, more safe supply makes more people safe.
00:07:00.000And right now you can only get safe supply from specific government-controlled locations.
00:07:04.680And so why shouldn't they be everywhere?
00:07:06.700Because what happens if you're not close to a safe supply distributor?
00:07:10.320You're on another part of the city and you can't get it.
00:07:31.920But in David E.B.'s mind, they should be.
00:07:34.240But here's also, this is something that Anthony Koch posted the other day.
00:07:38.460I just want to give him credit for having to actually, you know, subjected himself to reading significant portions of what Bonnie Henry was proposing.
00:07:46.360I know you could say, well, why haven't you read it?
00:07:48.340Guys, it's insane that you don't have to read it past the headlines of what it's proposing to do.
00:08:16.280I'll just sort of go down name by name.
00:08:18.900So 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.
00:08:26.320So we have Sarah Tau, white settler, residing on territory and raised in territory because I cannot read whatever native language this is.
00:08:36.200Dr. Yonabeth Nava de Escalande, first generation Canadian settler of mixed Latin American, European, and YU ancestry.
00:09:21.200Also, I put so much money down on this lady Steinberg here.
00:09:24.780They'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.
00:09:38.920It'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.
00:09:45.980But yeah, so David Eby is not having a good time.
00:09:58.960If he wins re-election, he 100% pushes something like this because he's never held himself back in the past.
00:10:04.800And the only factor we have to explain why he's saying no now is the election.
00:10:10.480So 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.
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00:11:32.540And I'll try and get back to other people who live in your area who then I can reach out to and send some information.
00:11:39.220So that's kind of what I'm doing with that new list.
00:11:41.840But again, in BC, donate to the BC Conservatives.
00:11:44.820You cannot donate that much in BC politics, only $1,400, which means that you can't just get 500 big donors in a room and have them like peel off $4,000 checks like you can do in Alberta and Ontario.
00:11:56.780And it's mostly a fully funded campaign after that.
00:11:59.380No, you got to nickel and dime your way to the top because the most someone can donate is $1,400, which is even less than the federal amounts.
00:12:06.840This is why I actually advocate for it.
00:12:09.240And as much as saying get money out of politics is popular, in Canada, we need more money in politics because people care about things that they spend their money on.
00:12:17.200And 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.
00:12:26.160And 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.
00:12:39.960But they're going to go out and specifically identify orange and green voters to get out there.