r/BCpolitics

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This follows revelations that the candidate, Joachim Agou, promoted violence against protesters and suggested Pakistani immigrants make London a "shithole."

I find the fact that this person held such a high position in the party demonstrates at the very least terrible judgement by the party and is important information for voters.

Here's the transcript of the Apollo Chung audio:

Transcript of Released Audio

I don’t walk away from money. We have the leader in our hands. I’m not walking away. Minimum, I want half a million dollars for me.

I can’t do it—this—like, I can’t do it now as a punisher, right? I can’t do it with Chris Delaney there, right? We need to basically force all of them to make a fundraiser for us, and so we can steal everything.
Like, whenever we win something, we just go in there and just punish it, take shit. What do we give a shit? It’s ours to take, you know what I mean, because we’re the winners, right? That’s the objective, right? To monetize this whole thing.

It’s about basically, like, going into their—going into their place and just stealing shit nonstop. Like, I used to do this all the time with the leader, you know, and that’s why I keep looking at it and going, like, how do I monetize it, how do I monetize it, right?

And I don’t want people to interfere with it.
The only differences from the Conservatives and the NDP is: the Conservatives, they—I don’t know what the f*** is wrong with the—with the underlings. Their weird fucking white people are, like, crazy, you know what I mean, like—[skip in audio; inaudible] (care for these?)—like, like, what’s the most important thing is to get government.

That’s all I keep telling everybody: once you get government, who cares? I don’t care about, like, saving the province and all that shit. Like, saving the province is only secondary to what the main prize is.
The main prize right now is to get government. Once we get government, you can do what the fuck you want.

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You have four years, and then do what the fuck you want. Four years, you know, because if you don’t do it right the first year, then try again next year, and the next year doesn’t work, then try again in the third year and fourth—uh—fourth year, and just, just do it whenever [inaudible], and that’s it.

So that’s all we have to do, you know what I mean?
Look, you know, if you start off with saying stupid shit or believing stupid shit, right, then it’s, it’s weird, it’s weird, right?

Like, I know he, like—I know he’s misogynistic. That I know for sure. That I know. Like, really misogynistic—not the funny type of misogynistic, but the real type of misogynistic.

So, like, one time— that shouldn’t be in politics—one time, if I remember, he told me that, then I’m just like, what the fuck is this shit.

Hello fellow reddit users,
Brian Andrews here and I am running for Kamloops City Councillor in the municipal election.

Now that the first day of municipal voting as begun I want to do an Ask Me Anything.

By trade I am an electrician with twenty years in the industry. These days I work off the

tools as a Labour Organizer for IBEW Local 993. Every day I get to advocate for

workers, negotiate between different groups, and help strengthen unions across our

community. I also proudly serve as Second Vice President of the Kamloops and District

Labour Council.

The most important skill I have learned as a Labour Organizer, is how to sit at the table

with people who see things differently and still build relationships and find common

ground. Through this experience I have also trained and have experience in how to run

and participate in council meetings.

I am running for city councillor because the working people of Kamloops, whether

employees or small business owners, do not have a strong enough voice at the council

table. The people who build this city, care for it, and keep it moving deserve someone there who understands their lives.

That is why I am running under the title ‘A Working Voice, for a Working Kamloops’.

Most of my family & friends aren't planning on suffering with NDP any longer, and there are quite a few conservative parties this year to split their votes, so my friends & family are planning on voting green this year. I was curious on people's thoughts, as I'm quite new to voting, and I'm curious if this is what any others are planning this year, as I don't want to throw away my vote. I feel that the social medias I use are extremely biased, so I am looking for genuine opinions. Please leave me any helpful advice (stay kind please), as I will be reading all of the comments!

I’d really like to know what the BC Conservatives plan to do with rent control if they win.

Last election, John Rustad was pretty open about where he wanted to go. He said he wouldn’t remove rent control right away because the rental market was too tight, but once vacancy rates improved, he wanted to look at getting rid of it.

That should be a massive red flag for renters in Metro Vancouver.

A lot of people are only able to stay in their homes because annual increases are capped. If those protections disappear, plenty of landlords would have every incentive to push long-term tenants toward current market rents.

Now we have a new Conservative leader, a new election, and a lot of talk about cutting taxes and red tape for housing.

But where is the clear promise to renters?

Do they still want rent control gone once they think the market can handle it?

Will they keep the current annual rent cap for the full term?

Because after what they proposed last time, silence on this is not reassuring.

Sources:

The Tyee — Rustad Would Scrap Zoning Reforms, Keep Rent Control
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/20/Rustad-Zoning-Reforms-Rent-Control/

BC NDP — Rustad's plan to raise rent caps could cost renters hundreds of dollars a month
https://www.bcndp.ca/releases/rustads-plan-raise-rent-caps-could-cost-renters-hundreds-dollars-month

Not what you want but what you expect to happen..

Im expecting a fairly tight NDP win by a few seats here and there

The Greens to not get more than 1-2 seat

Don’t expect OneBc or CentreBc to win anything

Hot Take : Lowan wont win her riding and neither will Brodie

I don’t usually share political posts, but I think this one is worth reading. It was shared as a post on FB.

My thoughts:

With an election underway, I think it’s really important that we look beyond the things that are making us angry right now and actually look at what has been done over the past several years.

I’m sharing this because it puts a lot of accomplishments in one place. That doesn’t mean I think every statement in this post should simply be accepted as fact. In fact, I would encourage everyone to fact-check this post — and every other political post you see — including the ones shared by friends and family and especially the ones that support the political views you already hold.

We all have a responsibility to check the information we’re being given before we use it to form an opinion or pass it along.
I’m not asking anyone to agree with this post. I’m just asking people to read it, check the claims, and consider the record for themselves.

The post:

Turned around the finances of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) and reduced average car insurance rates by roughly 20%.

Led a high-profile crackdown on money laundering within provincial casinos and the real estate sector.

Banned big money from provincial politics, closed illicit clubhouses tied to organized crime, and secured settlements against opioid manufacturers.

Partnered on the Canada-British Columbia Cooperative Prosperity Agreement and pushed local procurement rules for public infrastructure.

The BC NDP eliminated Medical Services Plan (MSP) monthly premiums, saving individuals and families up to $900+ a year.

The province introduced a new compensation model for physicians and expanded team-based care. 1,000,000+ residents have been connected to a family doctor or nurse practitioner since primary-care strategies launched.

The government opened more than a dozen UPCCs across the province to relieve pressure on hospital emergency rooms for non-life-threatening needs.

BC NDP added thousands of health care workers in long-term care and assisted living, alongside investments in public long-term care facilities. Increased public funding for MRI and CT machines to reduce diagnostic wait times.
Broke ground or planned new hospitals in communities such as Surrey, Duncan, Terrace, and Vancouver, and scheduled a new medical school at Simon Fraser University (SFU).
Implemented dozens of health-authority initiatives to boost operating room capacity and reduce backlogs.

Over 7,300 student housing beds have been completed on campuses across the province.
Since 2017, the British Columbia government has tracked growth and commitments across public housing, post-secondary student housing, K–12 public education capacity, and healthcare infrastructure as follows:

1. Housing (Overall Public Supply)
Delivered or Underway: Over 93,000 homes have been completed or are actively underway provincewide through government-funded housing initiatives, non-profit partnerships, and middle-income supply programs.

2. K–12 Public School Desks / Student Seats (Elementary & Secondary)
Completed / Built: Over 22,000 new student seats have been built and opened in elementary and secondary schools across B.C.
Total Approved / In Progress: Nearly 50,000 new student seats (and almost 40,000 seismically upgraded seats) have been approved or funded across 250 school capital projects.

3. Post-Secondary Student Spaces & Campus Beds
Completed On-Campus Beds: Over 7,300 post-secondary student beds have been built and opened.

Total Committed / In Progress: Over 10,700 student beds are either complete or actively under construction, moving toward a total provincial target of 12,000 campus beds.

4. Hospital Beds & Health Infrastructure
Completed Acute Care / Hospital Beds: Over 1,300 hospital beds have been brought online through major capital investments.

In Progress / Planned: Thousands of additional acute care beds are in development or under construction via major projects, such as the new St. Paul’s Hospital replacement (548 beds), the new Cowichan District Hospital (204 beds), and hospital redevelopment projects in Burnaby, North Vancouver, and Kamloops.

The NDP have had 10 years to try their policies and they are a colossal failure by any metric. Don’t believe that Trump had anything to do with it, as those factors have yet to hit our economy. Over taxing investors and corporations has never worked in anywhere.

This is the second decade we have let them spend us into economic crisis. Debt eventually has to be paid. In 2022-23, the province spent 2.5 cents of every dollar of revenue on interest. Last year it was 4.7 cents. By 2028-29, it’s projected to be 8.2 cents, more than triple where it was when Eby took the province’s fiscal helm. Dollars spent on interest and paying for yesterday’s overspending are dollars that can’t go to healthcare, education, or tax relief.

Eby chose this snap election now because he knows that the next two years are going to be economic hell and they would have been obliterated when the proper election window rolled around. Don’t let the NDP continue to lead our economy during this upcoming tumultuous period.

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Does anyone else find the timing of the election almost a slap in the fact for Public Service workers? My Facebook memories are being flooded with the strike from last year and now we are going to vote?  I remember talking to coworkers last year saying “oh it’s a good thing there isn’t an election for a while because they just pissed off all the public service workers.”

Again, this isn’t about what party is better for the union, it is just like a slap in the face that you want my vote when a year ago we were in a historically long strike.

I know this might not sit well with some people. But, I know a lot of people who are not voting in this year's election.

These (including me) are avid voters.