The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 19, 2024


Premier Eby whines at BC Conservatives for opposing mandates

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school safety protests affordable housing in BC
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David Eby Tamara Leach Brian Breguet Abbotsford South Sharon Hartwell Benjamin Dichter Tucker Carlson B.C. United Horgan Chris
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BC NDP Premier David Eby wants to know if the Freedom Convoy's candidates are "Radical" because they oppose "mandating gender education" and other radical ideas, and then whines about it. Also, why would you ever bring up health care if you re running for the BC NDP?

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00:00:00.000 With the British Columbia provincial election going to take place on October 19th of this year, BC NDP Premier David Eby has a lot of problems on his hands.
00:00:11.560 The first of which is that nobody thinks his government is doing a particularly good job on any major issue.
00:00:17.860 You know, housing, health care, taxes, affordability, all of this stuff the NDP government is severely in the negatives.
00:00:26.800 Another problem David Eby has is that he has no charisma.
00:00:30.220 So he can't even muscle through the policy problems his government has by at least being able to project confidence.
00:00:36.640 The man slouches like he is a human question mark and he only comes off like an activist whiner whenever he is confronting a serious issue.
00:00:46.120 And now this is exactly his approach to fighting back against the provincial conservatives, just whining at them.
00:00:54.040 He posted this just earlier today going after the conservatives for supposedly having radical candidates who say crazy stuff like mandates are bad.
00:01:04.100 But David Eby posted this today saying, let me ask you, do we really want these candidates in charge of our health care or deciding what our kids learn?
00:01:14.440 Well, yes, because they oppose kids being taught gender theory or having mandates in place to let kids go to school.
00:01:22.840 I think they're perfectly fine, British Columbians, with having BC conservatives in charge.
00:01:27.720 Also, the way he phrases this makes it seem like he's condemning his own NDP candidates.
00:01:32.200 David Eby goes on to say, for me, that's a hard no.
00:01:35.700 So my team and I are focused on what truly matters, affordable housing, reliable health care and easing the pressure on our on your family budget.
00:01:44.380 And now before I get into the video where David Eby immediately has a very strange look on his face, why would you ever bring up health care if you're the BC NDP?
00:01:54.900 This is what drives me up the wall with the federal liberals and now the provincial NDP.
00:01:59.400 I'm a conservative all the way.
00:02:00.640 I'm helping the BC conservatives win this provincial election.
00:02:03.860 But what drives me up a wall is when unpopular lefty governments keep bringing up issues that everyone thinks they suck at because they do.
00:02:13.460 That's what happens all the time with the federal liberals.
00:02:16.420 They keep bringing up housing and immigration. 0.98
00:02:18.380 Everyone thinks they suck at those.
00:02:19.820 Don't bring it up.
00:02:20.780 With David Eby, I would say stick to talking about like the environment because that's the only issue, that there is a decent amount of BC residents that like agree with you.
00:02:30.800 There is a lot of granola, more environmentalist voters that the NDP can appeal to.
00:02:35.540 But don't bring up health care.
00:02:37.120 The Mission Memorial ER has closed three times in two and a half weeks.
00:02:41.820 And that's just one ER.
00:02:43.640 Emergency rooms all over British Columbia keep closing because they don't have the staff.
00:02:47.600 And then they come out and start trying to brag that, you know, that we actually hired more nurses and doctors in this past quarter than Alberta did.
00:02:54.600 But cool, Alberta also has more doctors and nurses per capita than you guys.
00:02:59.820 And that's pretty sad considering that Alberta, the province I typically live in, is not very good on health care.
00:03:06.860 We do not allocate our health care dollars particularly well.
00:03:11.120 We have way too much administration, not enough frontline workers, and we're still doing better than British Columbia.
00:03:16.340 But here's David Eby now going to whine at some conservative candidates because they exercise their free speech rights on X and post things that they think.
00:03:26.340 This is literally the post he's about to criticize.
00:03:28.940 Tamara Leach from the Freedom Convoy posted something.
00:03:31.760 And one of the conservative candidates, Sharon Hartwell, posted,
00:03:35.720 Thank you, Tamara and Chris.
00:03:37.120 You continue to be an inspiration, which is entirely uncontroversial.
00:03:42.440 But here's David Eby.
00:03:43.820 Hey, everybody.
00:03:44.240 You know, I've been asked a lot what I think about these conservative candidates who are peddling conspiracy theories and hate in our province.
00:03:54.820 Just a couple of days ago.
00:03:56.280 Name the hater of the conspiracy theory and name the candidate that is currently running for the conservatives doing such a thing.
00:04:03.300 It's not like that's not actually a thing.
00:04:06.260 Every party eventually has to get rid of a candidate or two.
00:04:08.900 And now they're trying to, like, focus in on this as a big vulnerability for the conservatives because as a new party that hasn't been able to vet people, they had to get rid of, like, two candidates.
00:04:17.620 This is not going to be a winning message in the provincial election when, again, people think that your government is failing on multiple fronts.
00:04:25.320 For example, a conservative candidate sent out a tweet calling the leaders of the anti-vax convoy inspiring as they face a criminal trial for their actions.
00:04:39.060 This is a weird point.
00:04:42.840 Doesn't David Eby know that two of the main people who are leading the freedom convoy in Ottawa were vaccinated?
00:04:51.000 Tamara Leach is vaccinated.
00:04:53.260 Benjamin Dictor, who was the one who went on Tucker Carlson's show and was the main messenger for, like, you know, person doing messaging for the freedom convoy, also vaccinated.
00:05:01.420 They were against vaccine mandates, and apparently your government is now against vaccine mandates, too, since you just lifted the mandates on nurses and doctors because you could detect that particular issue was going to lose you a lot of votes.
00:05:16.680 And it probably still is because it was a little bit too, like, you know, too little too late to suddenly say we're going to bring back the nurses and doctors. 0.97
00:05:24.600 You know, you could have done it at the beginning by not getting rid of them, but this is why this is such a stupid point. 0.95
00:05:32.040 Nobody, they weren't even anti-vax at all. 0.99
00:05:34.640 It was anti-mandate.
00:05:36.020 It was against forcing people to do something that was entirely unnecessary just because the government said so.
00:05:42.860 You know, are these the kind of people that we want in the province making decisions about our health care system?
00:05:48.340 It'd be better than you.
00:05:50.320 About what our kids learn in school?
00:05:52.380 You think they should learn about gender theory and our math and, like, reading scores have been going down year after year.
00:06:00.360 So do you think your people are doing a good job?
00:06:03.200 Like, the problem with everything David Eby's saying here is that I, in two seconds, can just throw it back in his face.
00:06:08.640 Our reading comprehension rates have gone down.
00:06:11.520 Our math literacy rates have gone down.
00:06:13.900 Everything is getting worse.
00:06:15.320 And now he's going to, like, try and act like, really, you want these people to be in charge of health care and education in British Columbia schools and our hospitals?
00:06:27.020 Yes.
00:06:27.800 I actually would prefer it.
00:06:29.600 And even then, it's a little sketchy whenever they say these people are the convoy leaders and half the time they're not actually people who did anything particularly useful on the ground during the convoy.
00:06:39.900 Like, the actual convoy leaders were, like, the people who were doing all of the on-the-ground organizing in terms of the road captains directing around trucks getting people food.
00:06:48.880 A lot of the other people were just in hotel rooms doing, like, news conferences or whatever.
00:06:53.500 Yeah.
00:06:53.940 But that's a bit of an aside here.
00:06:56.900 I'll let David Eby finish up here whining at the conservatives.
00:07:00.520 This isn't an abstract question.
00:07:03.000 We have protests happening at our schools where people are banging on the windows and intimidating kids and teachers.
00:07:09.620 And conservatives voted against a law that would restrict that and apparently are calling these kinds of protests inspiring.
00:07:15.880 We've got to keep our kids safe.
00:07:17.700 We've got to make sure that they're able to learn independent of conspiracy political theories.
00:07:22.720 We've got to make sure that our province grows and prospers by welcoming everybody.
00:07:28.260 Also, apparently not keeping kids safe from having drugs not everywhere in our streets.
00:07:34.100 You know, having people shooting up meth between their toes outside of a school.
00:07:38.740 That's totally fine in David Eby's mind.
00:07:42.200 But what the real danger is, is a mom may be getting a bit overzealous and banging on the window because she doesn't like actual books with just full-on pornographic images being shown in them. 1.00
00:07:53.880 That's what David Eby is concerned about, is a parental protest getting a little bit antsy.
00:08:00.420 The protesters are getting a little bit fired up.
00:08:02.560 But not the actual just mass street violence we have all over the place in B.C.
00:08:07.820 Where he's kindly coming out and asking if drug users would please stop using illicit substances on our soccer fields.
00:08:17.160 That's David Eby's approach to actual school safety.
00:08:20.100 He's saying, can you guys just do your illicit drugs on the sidewalk and not on the school playground?
00:08:26.760 That's actually how he handles these things.
00:08:29.500 That's what he did.
00:08:30.380 He passed a law or order in council basically asking people nicely to stop doing these things.
00:08:36.140 It's never going to be enforced because he doesn't enforce the current camping laws that are supposed to prevent people from just hanging out in public parks with tents and, you know, other like, like other sort of makeshift shelters.
00:08:49.280 And we're going to stay focused as the B.C.
00:08:50.960 NDP on what matters to people.
00:08:52.520 Housing affordability, supporting people with the cost of daily life, making sure that our health care system is strengthened so you get the care you need when you need it.
00:09:01.200 And that's what we're going to be doing.
00:09:02.440 And for the Conservatives, they've obviously got other plans.
00:09:08.700 They obviously have other plans. 0.98
00:09:11.600 Why does everything suck? 0.96
00:09:12.940 Since you've been in charge, though, everything has been worse. 0.98
00:09:16.320 Yes, you've only been the Premier since 2022, but Horgan was the Premier since 2017.
00:09:21.480 And everything has gotten far, far worse than even when the Liberals were in charge.
00:09:25.740 Nobody should vote the Liberals back.
00:09:27.280 And far from it, B.C. 0.99
00:09:29.080 United is a pathetic party, the party that, you know, Liberals who changed their name. 0.97
00:09:33.060 The Conservatives are actually going to do some good stuff. 0.98
00:09:36.480 And E.B. is just here basically saying, well, you know that they once said that Tamir Leach was inspiring.
00:09:42.920 I don't care.
00:09:44.000 It doesn't bother me.
00:09:45.260 What?
00:09:45.960 And you have been performing terribly on all those issues.
00:09:48.960 Like, oh, we're going to try and make life more affordable in British Columbia.
00:09:54.300 When were you planning on starting to do that?
00:09:56.660 Because apparently you haven't done it yet.
00:09:58.680 Housing is crazy.
00:10:00.220 The BC NDP recently opened some new affordable housing units in Vancouver, I believe.
00:10:08.840 It might have been Victoria.
00:10:09.620 And they are actively more expensive than the normal market rates for rentable units.
00:10:16.800 They're like $2,700 a month.
00:10:19.920 And these were affordable apartment buildings because the NDP government is completely incompetent.
00:10:25.640 They give out contracts to just whoever.
00:10:28.180 They don't manage them properly.
00:10:29.700 They put a bunch of extra environmental inspection costs and crazy regulations on the construction projects
00:10:36.880 and then make them cost way too much to do.
00:10:39.520 And then even they eventually have to face the economic realities.
00:10:42.520 And they can't offer these units up for something reasonable like $1,200, $1,100 a month.
00:10:48.080 It's $2,700 a month because they don't know what they're doing.
00:10:51.620 But be scared that we had a conservative candidate say Tamir Leach was inspiring.
00:10:57.320 Be scared that sometimes conservatives say things that don't 100% line up with progressives.
00:11:04.240 They went after Brian Breguet who's a conservative candidate running in Vancouver Langara a couple months ago
00:11:09.400 because he criticized, rightfully so, them putting pride progress flags on fire engines in Victoria and Vancouver
00:11:17.440 which is costing tens of thousands of dollars, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars
00:11:22.220 when you consider all the different places that they did this around British Columbia
00:11:25.540 that they're wasting money at the same time people can't afford groceries.
00:11:29.060 And the BC NDP started getting so mad because, oh, are you saying you oppose pride?
00:11:35.180 I know, Brian, he is a social liberal.
00:11:37.580 And he is merely pointing out that you guys are wasting money hand over fist for useless symbolic virtue signaling
00:11:44.520 at the same time you're pretending that you care about affordability.
00:11:47.960 If you cared, you would stop with the nonsensical virtue signaling spending right away.
00:11:53.960 They don't because they consider that a higher priority than people being able to afford shelter in this province.
00:12:02.900 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:12:05.660 If you live in British Columbia, at least donate $100 to the BC Conservative Party.
00:12:11.000 I have a link in the description below.
00:12:12.960 To donate, you get 75% back of your money for donating up to $100.
00:12:17.540 So it only costs you $25 to donate $100 because the BC NDP are literally taxpayer funded.
00:12:24.400 They and the BC United get $1.56 for every single vote they got in 2020.
00:12:30.420 And they got 33% of their money back in every riding that they got more than 10% of the vote in.
00:12:36.460 That basically means every single riding.
00:12:39.100 The BC Conservatives also get that per vote subsidy.
00:12:41.640 But it's barely anything when you consider the fact that they would have gotten way less than 50,000 votes.
00:12:46.100 And then the BC NDP would have gotten more than a million.
00:12:49.560 It is a way of being able to stabilize unpopular incumbents by making the taxpayer fund them rather than actually requiring grassroots financial support.
00:12:59.260 So if you live in BC and you want to change the government, make sure you donate $100 just so we can actually fund campaigns.
00:13:05.220 Lawn signs cost around $9 to $12 each depending on who your vendor is.
00:13:09.880 A lot of this campaign stuff is expensive.
00:13:11.980 Make sure to lower the cost for us.
00:13:14.020 So Abbotsford South, it doesn't matter if you live in that riding or not.
00:13:17.480 Donate to that EDA and we will distribute money to other ridings in need that we consider winnable.
00:13:23.520 Anyways, that's it for me today, guys.
00:13:25.760 Have a good one.