The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - November 20, 2025


Radical NDP vote against bill banning DEI programs in BC Universities!

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foreign student housing subsidies
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Wyatt Claypool
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John Rustad Tara Armstrong Jordan Keeley Eleanor Sturko Amelia Boltby Dallas Brody Simon Fraser University Angelo Isidoro Rhianne Gasper Bruce Bandman Jass Johal Moneyball Jobs Tons
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In this episode, Wyatt Claypool talks about a bill that was introduced in the BC legislature today that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion practices in BC post-secondary institutions. Unfortunately, the bill was shot down by the New Democrats, who are in fact in favor of racism under the guise of social justice.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I have to bring you some news from where I work at the BC legislature today because it was too interesting to not talk about.
00:00:10.600 So today the party I work for, 1BC, put forward a policy banning DEI practices, that is diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, in BC post-secondary institutions. If they end up using DEI, which is in effect racism and sexism in terms of hiring people, then they would have all of their public money taken away from them.
00:00:35.060 We proposed this bill, and of course, the NDP ended up shooting it down because the NDP are in fact in favor of racism under the guise of social justice.
00:00:48.340 So I want to show you guys this clip of our MLA, Tara Armstrong, introducing the bill, and then I want to talk about just the dynamics of the BC legislature and just how radical the government is in this province.
00:01:01.840 But before I get into it, guys, I just want to remind you that if you live in the province of British Columbia, consider joining the 1BC party if you're already a part of it or you like what we're doing.
00:01:13.220 Also think about donating. If you donate $100, you actually get 75% of your money back in your taxes, and then on the next $300 up to $400, you get 50% of it back.
00:01:25.740 So technically, if you actually donate, I believe $400, you really only end up paying about $175 to do that. Or what would it be? Yeah, $175 in order to give us $400.
00:01:36.900 So think about it, see what we're doing, and see if you like it enough that you would want to jump on board.
00:01:42.700 I actually hear there's a new poll coming out that's going to put the 1BC party around 7 to 9 points in the polls.
00:01:49.420 So we are moving onward and upward these days, but I won't badger you guys too much about all the details.
00:01:55.360 Let's get into the bill that was presented today. Here is 1BC House Leader Tara Armstrong introducing the bill.
00:02:02.180 Men, get to the back of the line. Whites, Asians, and Jews need not apply. That's exactly what Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, is. 1.00
00:02:15.580 It's the idea that jobs should be awarded on the basis of race or sex, not merit or qualifications.
00:02:23.680 That discrimination against certain groups is a good thing. 1.00
00:02:26.720 And it has completely consumed our universities. Our bill will rip it from its roots. 0.52
00:02:35.200 Here in BC, Simon Fraser University openly posted for 15 Black-only faculty positions.
00:02:44.560 The Aristotle Foundation found that 98% of 500 academic job postings across Canada contained DEI-based discrimination.
00:02:54.680 At UBC, two-thirds of job postings required candidates to show their commitment to left-wing politics in the name of DEI.
00:03:06.080 Jobs should go to the most qualified candidate, regardless of sex or race.
00:03:12.720 You want your plane flown by the best pilot and your scalpel wielded by the best surgeon.
00:03:19.480 You care about their skills, not their skin colour.
00:03:22.540 Our bill bans race-based hiring, identity quotas, and ideological litmus tests at our tax-funded universities.
00:03:34.060 Any public institution that refuses to comply loses its funding.
00:03:40.160 Every Canadian should be judged by their merits, not their sex or their skin colour.
00:03:46.200 Now, of course, the NDP couldn't get on board with this rock-solid logic that we should actually prioritize merit instead of race and sex.
00:04:03.400 And so the bill ended up being shot down 50 nay to 41 yay, of course, that being no versus yes.
00:04:12.740 And if you actually know the makeup of the BC legislature, you'll know that obviously the NDP put up the speaker.
00:04:19.980 So the NDP have 46 people who end up voting yes or no on these bills, but 50 people voted against.
00:04:27.640 So the two green MLAs also voted against this bill.
00:04:32.200 This is, again, on first reading.
00:04:33.520 Usually you're supposed to let things go through first reading, but the NDP are dedicated to never letting a 1BC bill go through first reading.
00:04:41.060 But there were two other people who ended up voting against this bill.
00:04:46.000 And you actually can see them in the video at the back of the room behind Tara Armstrong, that being Eleanor Sturko on the left there and Amelia Boltby on the right.
00:04:57.400 Now, why I'm bringing this up is that it's a deep indictment of the current BC Conservative Party.
00:05:04.320 Those two MLAs are, in fact, independents, but they used to be BC Conservatives.
00:05:09.140 They weren't thrown out of the BC Conservatives or didn't choose to leave for ideological reasons.
00:05:16.020 It was more personality reasons.
00:05:18.360 There are a lot more people like them inside the BC Conservative Party.
00:05:22.580 But once they left the party or were removed, they start voting like their NDP MLAs on many votes.
00:05:29.560 There are a lot more people who would vote exactly like them if they could.
00:05:33.860 But because Rustad is now trying to pretend he's still somewhat conservative, they're at least trying to vote on 1BC bills in favor of them on the first reading.
00:05:44.280 Because originally they started looking really bad when Dallas Brody and Armstrong were initially putting forward bills and they were voting them down as well,
00:05:52.700 including a bill to ban land acknowledgements in publicly funded institutions.
00:05:57.540 Because, of course, you shouldn't be doing land acknowledgements at public meetings, in classrooms, in public schools, because it's political.
00:06:06.540 And political things should not be in our public institutions outside of those parties who are, you know, pushing for the specific ideological positions.
00:06:16.160 The neutral actors in our public institutions should not be able to do political sloganeering on the taxpayer dime.
00:06:24.380 But that's another issue for another day.
00:06:26.000 I want to give you guys, to one, I want to shout out one really good independent MLA who ended up putting forward a bill as well today.
00:06:35.300 And that was Peace River North MLA, Jordan Keeley, who put up his own bill to basically do a straight line repeal of DRIPA, the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
00:06:46.540 1BC has actually put forward another bill previously that effectively did the same thing, but the more the merrier.
00:06:52.820 Jordan's was also shot down.
00:06:54.380 So the NDP pretending like they just have a problem with 1BC and that's why they vote against our stuff?
00:06:59.100 No.
00:06:59.860 Jordan made the most sympathetic case possible for why DRIPA needs to be ended in order so that we can actually, you know, develop economically in British Columbia and to get rid of all the racial discrimination between Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
00:07:12.900 And they still killed it because, and the truth is, they don't care about the tone, they don't care about the delivery of your policies, they just hate your policies for ideological reasons.
00:07:25.020 They don't think that Dallas is too brazen or Tara is too mean or something like that.
00:07:30.400 Jordan tried to be as nice as humanly possible in saying that DRIPA is bad and they still wouldn't let that bill go forward.
00:07:36.940 But now I just want to jump over to something that our leader, 1BC leader Dallas Brody did today, and that was calling out the BC NDP for funding foreign student housing in British Columbia right now. 0.63
00:07:51.360 This is absolutely ridiculous.
00:07:53.020 Dallas, I'm going to show you a little bit of the exchange and then I want to commentate on it a bit here.
00:07:57.700 But here was the question today.
00:07:59.680 What if I told you that the government has a foreign welfare program where they take money from citizens and give it to non-taxpaying guests?
00:08:09.500 The BC government is spending $2 billion on university student housing, but half of this money, nearly a billion dollars, is given away to foreign student housing.
00:08:21.940 Students who don't even call Canada home. 0.56
00:08:25.380 This government is prioritizing and spending money on guests instead of our own citizens.
00:08:30.920 Will the minister act immediately to cut this $1 billion foreign student subsidy and give this money back to British Columbians?
00:08:39.880 Now I'm going to go forward a little bit because the minister ends up just saying, oh, it's the first time I've ever answered a question.
00:08:45.340 So that's very nice.
00:08:46.160 So I'm just going to get to her actual answering.
00:08:47.940 But it's unfortunate that the question has to be riddled in such rhetoric about the diversity of our province and of our post-secondary institutions that truly makes our province so great.
00:08:59.540 How does this have to do with diversity at all?
00:09:06.100 It's saying that a foreign student, whether they come from Switzerland, India, Russia, Iran, Tunisia, you shouldn't have to pay for their housing.
00:09:16.020 Now, she does try and throw an excuse across the plate and hope that you buy it.
00:09:20.800 But it's contradictory when you actually think it through for like five seconds.
00:09:26.080 On this side of the house, we know that the diversity of our post-secondary sector is what truly contributes to the growth, the innovation, and what is going to lead BC to being the engine of Canada.
00:09:38.300 And if we want to talk about student housing, I'm happy to do that because we have invested, our government has invested over $2 billion in creating student housing for students across our province.
00:09:51.900 So they have access to accessible, affordable student housing that is safe for all students.
00:09:57.480 We will continue to invest in students.
00:09:59.360 We will continue to invest in our post-secondary sector.
00:10:01.760 And we will not back down for ensuring that all British Columbians have access to relevant, accessible, affordable post-secondary education whenever they want to access.
00:10:10.940 Except it's actually removing access by subsidizing foreign students to have housing so they can go to university in British Columbia.
00:10:21.080 Now, in the supplemental, Dallas poses the same question to the minister.
00:10:26.120 And then she punts by saying, well, you know that our university system needs to be subsidized by foreign students. 0.94
00:10:31.700 Well, so we need these students to subsidize the university's budgets by paying higher tuition costs, but then we subsidize them back in return on their housing.
00:10:43.320 Why don't we just put the billion dollars into the universities? 0.98
00:10:48.060 In fact, really, how does this help grow the economy at all when we're educating people who are then going to take the gains made from education back mostly to their home country? 0.96
00:10:58.060 It doesn't make any sense.
00:11:00.000 Obviously, we could just find a way to make it easier for the universities to actually fund themselves.
00:11:05.020 Maybe that requires slightly higher domestic tuitions because they are legitimately low.
00:11:09.160 And I say this as somebody who ended up paying for my own master's degree, which is a much higher cost than a normal bachelor degree.
00:11:15.960 And it's possible.
00:11:17.280 Maybe that's a little bit of it.
00:11:18.480 But mainly, we could just end up using the money we waste on other things like foreign student housing or in other areas of government like, hey, for DEI.
00:11:26.100 And spend that making sure that the universities are solvent without having to sometimes fill up more than half the classroom with students that are not just not from British Columbia, not from Canada.
00:11:38.920 But that would be far too much common sense.
00:11:42.360 And if they actually agreed with that, they'd probably be part of the 1BC party.
00:11:45.180 So, you know, what can you say?
00:11:48.800 Anyways, I just want to make this a bit of a shorter video giving you guys an insight.
00:11:52.820 Actually, no, no, no.
00:11:54.040 Why am I?
00:11:54.620 What am I saying?
00:11:55.240 I need to talk about something that's really funny.
00:11:57.520 Because, of course, as I talk about 1BC, you end up getting a lot of people who end up saying, well, why are you even doing this?
00:12:04.300 Why not just support the BC Conservatives as the best chance of getting rid of the NDP?
00:12:11.280 No.
00:12:12.220 In no way.
00:12:14.440 Yesterday, the BC Conservatives had a caucus meeting, and things got pretty tense.
00:12:19.700 Because, obviously, nobody really likes John Rustad.
00:12:23.220 But John Rustad has dictatorial powers and doesn't actually have to go unless he wants to go. 0.95
00:12:28.420 And the party is being run by a bunch of cowards who are not going to do anything to actually force him out. 0.95
00:12:34.360 Although, technically, they can't get rid of him. 0.97
00:12:36.420 There are mechanisms they could use to get rid of him anyways.
00:12:39.820 But people like Angelo Isidoro, the executive director of the BC Conservative Party, would rather just sit around silently, still cashing his checks to be the executive director.
00:12:49.500 But yesterday at their caucus meeting, as Jass Johal reports,
00:12:52.840 Quote, tensions boil over in the BC Conservative caucus Tuesday night, John Rustad faces sharp pushback over his leadership and the party's dismal fundraising.
00:13:02.820 So far, a paltry $110,000 raised this quarter.
00:13:07.480 He goes on to say, Rustad was asked to leave so caucus could speak freely.
00:13:11.960 He refused.
00:13:12.960 Party whip and loyalist Bruce Bandman backed him, lecturing anyone who challenged the leadership, or the challenge of the leader.
00:13:19.860 Now, I used to be Bruce Bandman's campaign manager back during the last provincial election. 0.90
00:13:25.820 It shouldn't be that surprising, based on who I am and who he is, that eventually he ended up firing me because of really stupid, false complaints about how I was too risky in terms of what I would post on social media. 0.73
00:13:38.120 If you follow me on social media, you would never actually conclude that. 0.99
00:13:40.760 But this is just so dumb that the MLAs couldn't even mount the courage to say, 0.99
00:13:46.500 we don't care if you're in the room, John. 1.00
00:13:48.060 We're going to raise our hands and say, we wish you would stop being leader.
00:13:51.520 And they're going bankrupt.
00:13:52.740 And these people still refuse to actually just tell him they think he needs to go.
00:13:57.260 They're like, John, would you please leave the room so we can silently vote on our own?
00:14:01.840 Bandman or Rhianne Gasper, someone like that, would just tell John who voted for him and against him anyways.
00:14:07.440 But they're like, I can't, it's like, I can't go to the bathroom while you're in the room.
00:14:11.980 Can you please leave so I can raise my hand and have an opinion?
00:14:15.440 It's like, come on, guys.
00:14:17.660 The BC Conservatives are so hobbled at this point because they wanted to be basically, it's a bunch of BC Liberals who knew the BC Liberal brand and the BC United brand was unpopular.
00:14:29.420 And so they joined the BC Conservative Party as basically a life raft for their political careers.
00:14:34.740 That includes people like Eleanor Sturko, who now sits as an Independent and is very likely to end up starting a new party with Amelia Boltby. 0.99
00:14:43.880 I'm not sure what they would call it.
00:14:45.440 Maybe they'll just join Center BC and become the MLA's for that.
00:14:48.780 But the party is full of people like Sturko and Boltby even still.
00:14:53.580 Tons and tons of people, if not almost the majority of the current remaining MLAs, are effectively more federal liberal than they are federal conservative.
00:15:02.280 And they're only part of a conservative party because it's easier to get re-elected that way than being a BC Liberal.
00:15:08.260 But now, of course, we have one BC because that all became too much of a headache and they're not going to improve.
00:15:15.480 And so that's why you need a new vehicle.
00:15:18.280 They are so broke these days, it's not even funny.
00:15:21.100 Yes, they get a per-vote subsidy, so it will eventually pull them out of bankruptcy.
00:15:24.540 But goodness, that's not exactly a great strategy, just relying on the taxpayers to subsidize you rather than actually having a robust donor base.
00:15:34.000 But again, hey, if you want to be part of the 1BC party, I fully invite you to check out the website linked in the description below and pinned at the top of the comments.
00:15:42.340 Donate if you can.
00:15:43.440 Again, up to $100, you get 75% of your money back.
00:15:46.580 After that, up to $400, you get 50% of it back.
00:15:49.960 And past $400, up to $1,400, you get 25% of it back.
00:15:54.560 Do whatever you can.
00:15:55.460 It really helps us out.
00:15:56.940 We are basically making sure to only spend money on things that actually matter.
00:16:01.360 It's like Moneyball.
00:16:02.700 We're just trying to get on base.
00:16:04.140 That's it.
00:16:04.860 No bonus checks for executive directors and whatnot. 0.98
00:16:08.720 No wasteful money to worthless contractors who suck at their jobs and communications.
00:16:13.100 Only spending money where it actually has an effect.
00:16:17.420 Anyways, with that all being said, thank you guys for watching and I'll see you all next time.