This is actually quite an excellent little overview. Even though I have a pretty deep understanding of what's been going on given that I live in BC and I'm a bit of a political junkie, you've managed to render down all of the important points into a easy to follow narrative. I'm going to have to check out your channel. An interesting question you raised towards the end, could a party that hasn't elected any members since the 70s actually form government? In BC, it's certainly possible. A political party called Social Credit came out of nowhere to run the government for four decades nearly unbroken before collapsing in the late 80s and vanishing into thin air. Nobody under 30 has ever heard of it. BC politics is kind of like Quebec politics in that we can have incredibly volatile changes of opinion at a moment's notice. I mean, even at the federal level, left wing BC is trending above 50% support for the federal Conservatives.
My goal was to make a shorter video that explains what's going on without being too long for the average persons attention span. I didn't actually know that much about the SoCred movement, but maybe that's another video idea for me! And looking online, you are 100% right about that . Thanks for watching 😃
Since the NDP formed, its pretty much the only stable party in BC besides the Greens, who are an extremely small minority. The center left is very consistent here, but the center right and far right recycle every couple of decades after they're leadership becomes incompetent and they run their parties into the ground. The BCC are just repackaged BCL, which itself was just made up of old SoCreds before that.
I am personally worried about the lack of a centrist party as I fear that this could over time cause a super widening of ideologies/policies between the NDP's and Conservatives. (similar but not as extreme as the two party system in the states) I hope that we can either see the renewal of the BC Liberals or even a formation of a new centrist party.
I can guarantee there will be a new BC Liberal Party. Once Mike Bernier and Dan Davies win their bids as independents, it will bring a real swing into the legislative assembly.
@felixsoheili1154 Why do you believe they will win their independent bids? And do you think this new party will be more like the federal conservatives or liberals?
@DylanEDU, specifically those two are Conservatives federally who are running in a district where the NDP are irrelevant (less then 10% of the vote typically). They both are beloved in their district and I can personally attest to Mike Bernier (I was on his leadership bid team) that he is the perfect balance and is a household name in places like Dawson Creek. As for Dan Davies again he is the exact same, plus he supports youth parliament and he invited me to his legislative office for coffee and fiscal conservative policy discussion.
Quite informative and a good overview, only suggestion I would make is you seem to pause at random intervals between some words or sentences, which can make listening a bit rough, those pauses can be fixed in post or go away as you get more comfortable to presenting. Anyway promising stuff.
I would’ve loved to see Count Dankula do a Mad Lads video of the 2024 BC Election, the thought of seeing his next video pop up titled “The Election Where Everything Went Wrong” would’ve been a video I would’ve immediately grabbed my beer & popcorn to watch Dank explain the absolute shitshow of the 2020-2024 period & how it turned the Election into a Democratic Dumpster Fire.
A generally good overview, but to claim that decriminalization LED to a spike in overdoses and addictions in BC is factually incorrect. The increase in toxic drug deaths in BC is a decade-long trend that well preceded the recent decriminalization pilot project. The rate of overdose we're seeing in BC is entirely due to the increased toxicity in the illegal drug trade. The death rate is actually down a bit in 2024 but the project was cancelled largely due to politicization of the issue and a concerted fearmongering campaign on the part of both BC United and Pierre Poilievre. Perhaps the issue may have been more visible to the public due to decreased stigma around public drug use, but it DID NOT result in increased addiction, overdose or deaths and is just a convenient scapegoat for a more complex problem. The backtracking of the pilot on the part of the NDP was not based on data or science but just public backlash and the desire to win re-election.
The NDP didn’t even really backtrack on decrim. They were told that police would still be able to use public intoxication laws to control public use of drugs but police in most cases refused to apply the law
Another problem for the NDP is the SOGI programme is becoming none too popular with parents, many of whom are rank and file NDP members. take care rwmccoy
oh wow i actually didn’t know any of this, and i thought our quebec provincial politics were messy lol. i just don’t understand how BC United was able to die that hard?
@corsacs3879 haha I've managed to get some content out of BC as well. BC Uniteds fall was interesting because of how quickly it happened. Overall the question is whether BCU is gone forever, or just this election. Thanks again for watching 😃
Decrim didn’t “lead to a spike in overdoses” The rate at which overdoses were increasing (starting around 2018 when fentanyl got going)had been slowing in BC, only rising 7% last year compared to Alberta’s 21% rise. It is now decreasing in both provinces likely due to a multitude of measures.
It will nonetheless be quite narrow, and may even be a situation where the NDP will be a seat short of a majority, and need the support of an elected Green politician to pass legislation.
Its will be the greatest comeback for a conservative party in Canada history because they are the original conservative party of the province. I don't consider the Conservative Party of Canada they are not the original conservative party in federal government because the conservatives broke up and created a new party three times since the founding of this nation.
Let's go NDP, I can't believe that BC, probably the most sensible and practical province, would vote for a climate change denying premier. Absolutely bonkers given that the province is increasingly on fire or flooded every year
@@DylanEDU I actually believe the BC NDP have designed a solution to the housing crisis and will be an example to the country. They have made revolutionary regulatory changes that will fundamentally change how people make money off of land. Right now the value proposition with BC city land, but also much of Canada, is to own it. Not really do anything with it but own it and hold it. Rent it out, try and acquire enough to sell it as a chunk to a developer but basically own and hold. BCs new laws say any property within this or that distance of a train station, or this or that distance from a bus stop must allow buildings of specific sizes (4-8 storeys)… They then removed all municipal bylaws restricting second homes, carriage homes, and suites. They then took away municipal rights to use restrictive bylaws like setbacks to make it impractical to build these tall buildings or second homes. They then went a step further and removed the multi years long process of stakeholder and community input, meaning any project which meets the criteria is automatically approved. Now if all this AND the federal governments removal of GST on housing projects wasn’t enough to incentivize, wasn’t a big enough carrot to get something built, they added the biggest stick one could imagine. They also changed the way taxes will be applied to any of these newly rezoned properties. If you own one of these properties but do not live there yourself you are now no longer taxed at the rate that your property is currently being used for. Your taxes will now be assessed as if that property was being used for its most valuable possible use. So if black rock owns a single family home or an empty lot, but it could be a condo, they now will pay taxes as if they owned and operated a condo on the property… This changes the value proposition for land across BC. It increases taxes on those who are wasting the usefulness of the land and lowers taxes on home owners. Now speculators beat interest will be served by selling and developing asap. This should actually lower home prices, one realtor/developer expert I follow suggests this could freeze BC housing prices for a decade once it gets rolling. From experts I’ve been following this should be an unprecedented amount of building that Canada hasn’t seen since WW2. If so, obviously it will change BC cities forever. Some good some bad but it will address the economy. It will address the fact that housing costs are destroying us. And it will provide a ton of jobs
@@DylanEDUmeanwhile the conservatives are promising to undo a lot of the zoning changes and short term rental changes the NDP made. A study just came out showing ending short term rentals has dropped rental housing prices in BC
DOWN WITH THE CONSERVATIVES. Half their caucus is a bunch of ruthless pension pickers who deregulated education under the B.C. LIBS and destroyed cities like Surrey and Vancouver. Surrey schools are desperate for funding THANKS TO HALF those conservative MLA’s. If it wasn’t for the B.C. NDP We in Surrey would still have the terrible RCMP and not our own police force and a mayor left unclenched. EBY’s Housing policies influenced many states in the US to move towards Transit Oriented Development and thanks to EBY TransLink has full control over housing and THEIR land and property to develop rental housing. What have the conservatives done for the working class besides cut taxes that actually support us?! No thanks we’re not going to draconian ages where we have climate change deniers running our govt. John Rustad is in for himself and cares less about our British Columbian kids. EBY is young and has very young children so understands what’s the current scope on education, work and the expenses kids face these days.
Politicians need to address our birth rates crisis. BC needs to stop taking in so many immigrants per year. Because no one can afford to have kids anymore Our birth rates are already down to a catastrophically low 1.05 births/woman. That’s lower than Japan and almost as low as China’s birth rates Such low birth rates are disastrous over the long term. And we can’t simply replace our naturally declining population with immigrants. That will completely alter the country’s culture, identity and ethnic makeup
No offense, but I fail to see how altering the ethnic makeup of a location, and therefore supposedly inherently altering the culture of a place, should be painted as if it's always a generally problematic thing, especially if you're not likely also suggesting it was a mistake for us white folks to have come here in the first place. Kinda self-defeating, from a truly essentialist standpoint, to think this way, since to be consistent with this stance is to technically also suggest I should go back to Scotland, despite never having even been there. Is Richmond really in a worse off condition than the rest of Greater Vancouver for now being majority Chinese? I certainly don't think so, having lodged there on the regs. Besides, folks like me are a bit too preoccupied with a global Climate Crisis and general unaffordability (even without the avocvado toasts and pumpkin spiced lattes) to find childbearing all that worth it. No harm in having other people groups be invited in to cover the difference, if we're staying capitalist, and if there's little to no meaningful proof that our comunities are made less safe just with their presence. People are people, man. We may indeed have our differences between general groups, but it's not like that makes us separate species, or morally tied to our identities, or whatever. 🤷♂
BC has had a habit of punishing parties (by shifting almost entirely to new or opposing parties) when we are unsatisfied. Then giving those parties majority governments, which gives them great power to act. This has led to new parties coming in and eventually being considered much more unpopular than the last, as they use their newfound power in unpopular/controversial ways. Here's to hoping the Conservatives buck that trend (if they win).
I will vote conservative as he is more common sense, I am sick Of Bc NDP ignore hospital crisis, high crime rate, drug trade , free hard drug, ignore mental issue with drug addicted, no treatment, increase cost of living , less incentive on business and restrict business case in BC. Makes higher climate rate, more drug addicted , lower wages and less investors in bc with higher living cost . No one is worst than current BC government. We need to make to change .
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This video taught me that Ryan Reynolds is Canadian.
This is my favorite comment so far haha
@vancityreynolds is from Vancouver?
@@nuxkamina Do you think everyone on Earth follows Ryan Reynolds on Instagram?
This was informative! Thank you for this.
@rivetingraps8005 no problem, hope you enjoyed the video 😀
This is actually quite an excellent little overview. Even though I have a pretty deep understanding of what's been going on given that I live in BC and I'm a bit of a political junkie, you've managed to render down all of the important points into a easy to follow narrative. I'm going to have to check out your channel.
An interesting question you raised towards the end, could a party that hasn't elected any members since the 70s actually form government? In BC, it's certainly possible. A political party called Social Credit came out of nowhere to run the government for four decades nearly unbroken before collapsing in the late 80s and vanishing into thin air. Nobody under 30 has ever heard of it. BC politics is kind of like Quebec politics in that we can have incredibly volatile changes of opinion at a moment's notice. I mean, even at the federal level, left wing BC is trending above 50% support for the federal Conservatives.
My goal was to make a shorter video that explains what's going on without being too long for the average persons attention span.
I didn't actually know that much about the SoCred movement, but maybe that's another video idea for me! And looking online, you are 100% right about that .
Thanks for watching 😃
Since the NDP formed, its pretty much the only stable party in BC besides the Greens, who are an extremely small minority. The center left is very consistent here, but the center right and far right recycle every couple of decades after they're leadership becomes incompetent and they run their parties into the ground. The BCC are just repackaged BCL, which itself was just made up of old SoCreds before that.
I am personally worried about the lack of a centrist party as I fear that this could over time cause a super widening of ideologies/policies between the NDP's and Conservatives. (similar but not as extreme as the two party system in the states) I hope that we can either see the renewal of the BC Liberals or even a formation of a new centrist party.
I can guarantee there will be a new BC Liberal Party.
Once Mike Bernier and Dan Davies win their bids as independents, it will bring a real swing into the legislative assembly.
@@felixsoheili1154 The Liberal party is way far left bro.
@felixsoheili1154 Why do you believe they will win their independent bids? And do you think this new party will be more like the federal conservatives or liberals?
@lizpaperdeco do you believe this new party would be more like the federal conservatives or liberals?
@DylanEDU, specifically those two are Conservatives federally who are running in a district where the NDP are irrelevant (less then 10% of the vote typically).
They both are beloved in their district and I can personally attest to Mike Bernier (I was on his leadership bid team) that he is the perfect balance and is a household name in places like Dawson Creek.
As for Dan Davies again he is the exact same, plus he supports youth parliament and he invited me to his legislative office for coffee and fiscal conservative policy discussion.
i loved this vid !! i can see all the effort you put into it. kudos to you 🙏
John Rustad is the definition of success is the greatest revenge . Great vid
@@sjappiyah4071 That is 100% true. Thanks for watching the video!
To answer your question, yes. There's far stranger things that have happened in Canadian politics.
Awesome video, thanks!
@@jasondamodred thanks for watching!
As a Brazilian, this feels so much like home, thank you
Quite informative and a good overview, only suggestion I would make is you seem to pause at random intervals between some words or sentences, which can make listening a bit rough, those pauses can be fixed in post or go away as you get more comfortable to presenting. Anyway promising stuff.
@greganator111 thanks for the constructive criticism!
Great video!
Thanks for watching!
Nice to see a non biased look at what’s going on in BC,
@noahkettel5028 thanks for watching and I appreciate being viewed as non biased!
I would’ve loved to see Count Dankula do a Mad Lads video of the 2024 BC Election, the thought of seeing his next video pop up titled “The Election Where Everything Went Wrong” would’ve been a video I would’ve immediately grabbed my beer & popcorn to watch Dank explain the absolute shitshow of the 2020-2024 period & how it turned the Election into a Democratic Dumpster Fire.
Great video thank you!
@@dislikebutton8789 thanks for watching the video 😃
A generally good overview, but to claim that decriminalization LED to a spike in overdoses and addictions in BC is factually incorrect. The increase in toxic drug deaths in BC is a decade-long trend that well preceded the recent decriminalization pilot project. The rate of overdose we're seeing in BC is entirely due to the increased toxicity in the illegal drug trade.
The death rate is actually down a bit in 2024 but the project was cancelled largely due to politicization of the issue and a concerted fearmongering campaign on the part of both BC United and Pierre Poilievre. Perhaps the issue may have been more visible to the public due to decreased stigma around public drug use, but it DID NOT result in increased addiction, overdose or deaths and is just a convenient scapegoat for a more complex problem. The backtracking of the pilot on the part of the NDP was not based on data or science but just public backlash and the desire to win re-election.
The NDP didn’t even really backtrack on decrim. They were told that police would still be able to use public intoxication laws to control public use of drugs but police in most cases refused to apply the law
By the way I like your choice of music and I like that you have it turned down in your disciples
@@CX-ru1ql thanks!
Man I live in BC and I wasn’t aware that BC united used to be the liberals, I thought they were some newer right leaning populist party.
Well done thank you
@@CX-ru1ql thanks for watching!
it is a good summary.
@@softde appreciate the positive comment!
Something as important as Digital Currency being supported by P.P. should become front & centre so as to make it as clear to voters as "Axe the Tax"!
That's federal politics, doesn't have any effect on the BC election
@@matthewsmith908 Clear as day that some don't pay much attention in Grade 10 social studies
On behalf of the entire UK, congratulations to the BC Conservatives of realising the dream of Zero Seats.
Another problem for the NDP is the SOGI programme is becoming none too popular with parents, many of whom are rank and file NDP members.
take care
rwmccoy
oh wow i actually didn’t know any of this, and i thought our quebec provincial politics were messy lol. i just don’t understand how BC United was able to die that hard?
@corsacs3879 haha I've managed to get some content out of BC as well. BC Uniteds fall was interesting because of how quickly it happened. Overall the question is whether BCU is gone forever, or just this election.
Thanks again for watching 😃
Decrim didn’t “lead to a spike in overdoses”
The rate at which overdoses were increasing (starting around 2018 when fentanyl got going)had been slowing in BC, only rising 7% last year compared to Alberta’s 21% rise.
It is now decreasing in both provinces likely due to a multitude of measures.
BC NDP are still the favorite because its not about popular vote but seat count
It will nonetheless be quite narrow, and may even be a situation where the NDP will be a seat short of a majority, and need the support of an elected Green politician to pass legislation.
Its will be the greatest comeback for a conservative party in Canada history because they are the original conservative party of the province. I don't consider the Conservative Party of Canada they are not the original conservative party in federal government because the conservatives broke up and created a new party three times since the founding of this nation.
Let's go NDP, I can't believe that BC, probably the most sensible and practical province, would vote for a climate change denying premier. Absolutely bonkers given that the province is increasingly on fire or flooded every year
So collecting carbon tax gonna help save the planet? 🤣😂
Thanks for expressing your opinion! What are your thoughts on decriminalization and housing in BC (2 other keys issues in this election)?
@@DylanEDU I actually believe the BC NDP have designed a solution to the housing crisis and will be an example to the country. They have made revolutionary regulatory changes that will fundamentally change how people make money off of land.
Right now the value proposition with BC city land, but also much of Canada, is to own it. Not really do anything with it but own it and hold it. Rent it out, try and acquire enough to sell it as a chunk to a developer but basically own and hold.
BCs new laws say any property within this or that distance of a train station, or this or that distance from a bus stop must allow buildings of specific sizes (4-8 storeys)…
They then removed all municipal bylaws restricting second homes, carriage homes, and suites.
They then took away municipal rights to use restrictive bylaws like setbacks to make it impractical to build these tall buildings or second homes.
They then went a step further and removed the multi years long process of stakeholder and community input, meaning any project which meets the criteria is automatically approved.
Now if all this AND the federal governments removal of GST on housing projects wasn’t enough to incentivize, wasn’t a big enough carrot to get something built, they added the biggest stick one could imagine.
They also changed the way taxes will be applied to any of these newly rezoned properties. If you own one of these properties but do not live there yourself you are now no longer taxed at the rate that your property is currently being used for. Your taxes will now be assessed as if that property was being used for its most valuable possible use. So if black rock owns a single family home or an empty lot, but it could be a condo, they now will pay taxes as if they owned and operated a condo on the property…
This changes the value proposition for land across BC. It increases taxes on those who are wasting the usefulness of the land and lowers taxes on home owners. Now speculators beat interest will be served by selling and developing asap. This should actually lower home prices, one realtor/developer expert I follow suggests this could freeze BC housing prices for a decade once it gets rolling.
From experts I’ve been following this should be an unprecedented amount of building that Canada hasn’t seen since WW2.
If so, obviously it will change BC cities forever. Some good some bad but it will address the economy. It will address the fact that housing costs are destroying us. And it will provide a ton of jobs
@@DylanEDUmeanwhile the conservatives are promising to undo a lot of the zoning changes and short term rental changes the NDP made. A study just came out showing ending short term rentals has dropped rental housing prices in BC
DOWN WITH THE CONSERVATIVES. Half their caucus is a bunch of ruthless pension pickers who deregulated education under the B.C. LIBS and destroyed cities like Surrey and Vancouver. Surrey schools are desperate for funding THANKS TO HALF those conservative MLA’s. If it wasn’t for the B.C. NDP We in Surrey would still have the terrible RCMP and not our own police force and a mayor left unclenched. EBY’s Housing policies influenced many states in the US to move towards Transit Oriented Development and thanks to EBY TransLink has full control over housing and THEIR land and property to develop rental housing. What have the conservatives done for the working class besides cut taxes that actually support us?! No thanks we’re not going to draconian ages where we have climate change deniers running our govt. John Rustad is in for himself and cares less about our British Columbian kids. EBY is young and has very young children so understands what’s the current scope on education, work and the expenses kids face these days.
Politicians need to address our birth rates crisis. BC needs to stop taking in so many immigrants per year. Because no one can afford to have kids anymore
Our birth rates are already down to a catastrophically low 1.05 births/woman. That’s lower than Japan and almost as low as China’s birth rates
Such low birth rates are disastrous over the long term. And we can’t simply replace our naturally declining population with immigrants. That will completely alter the country’s culture, identity and ethnic makeup
Nah we'll just import another gazillion jeets who go to work at tim hortans
No offense, but I fail to see how altering the ethnic makeup of a location, and therefore supposedly inherently altering the culture of a place, should be painted as if it's always a generally problematic thing, especially if you're not likely also suggesting it was a mistake for us white folks to have come here in the first place. Kinda self-defeating, from a truly essentialist standpoint, to think this way, since to be consistent with this stance is to technically also suggest I should go back to Scotland, despite never having even been there. Is Richmond really in a worse off condition than the rest of Greater Vancouver for now being majority Chinese? I certainly don't think so, having lodged there on the regs.
Besides, folks like me are a bit too preoccupied with a global Climate Crisis and general unaffordability (even without the avocvado toasts and pumpkin spiced lattes) to find childbearing all that worth it. No harm in having other people groups be invited in to cover the difference, if we're staying capitalist, and if there's little to no meaningful proof that our comunities are made less safe just with their presence. People are people, man. We may indeed have our differences between general groups, but it's not like that makes us separate species, or morally tied to our identities, or whatever. 🤷♂
*NDP gets a carismathic leader that can actually win
*They get cancer
BC has had a habit of punishing parties (by shifting almost entirely to new or opposing parties) when we are unsatisfied. Then giving those parties majority governments, which gives them great power to act. This has led to new parties coming in and eventually being considered much more unpopular than the last, as they use their newfound power in unpopular/controversial ways. Here's to hoping the Conservatives buck that trend (if they win).
Yeah, see the Social Credit movement as an example of that. Thanks for watching the video!
Good thing I live in Washington state!
Oh wait…
Are you a Communist Democrat who wants your country destroyed?
He really played himself 😂 wow.
Sadly BC Social Credit is still dead...
Sadly? lol
Not really. It lives on in many of the Conservative Party candidates. John Rustad would fit right in to the Social Credit party of old.
@@Sanchuniathon384 just because it was so odd...
Had to stop watching within first minute as you inaccurately described it as coalition government.
@@garrethikes it was effectively a coalition, but it was in technicality a confidence agreement yes
cheering for the conservatives to win in BC! good video also
@toggle2565 thanks for watching and I appreciate the positive feedback!
We are going to a Conservative fundraiser tomorrow night !
@@reinhardtkk cool!
I will vote conservative as he is more common sense, I am sick
Of Bc NDP ignore hospital crisis, high crime rate, drug trade , free hard drug, ignore mental issue with drug addicted, no treatment, increase cost of living , less incentive on business and restrict business case in BC. Makes higher climate rate, more drug addicted , lower wages and less investors in bc with higher living cost . No one is worst than current BC government. We need to make to change .
Conservatives are terminal cancer to British Columbia
BC Conservatives ❤