Politico, film-maker, former lawyer. BC Conservative candidate, 2024. OneBC co-founder.
Victoria, BC
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New Prosperity is one of Canada’s largest gold-copper mines, with deposits worth over $100 billion CAD.
The company has sunk $200 million into regulatory processes and court defences over 33 grueling years.
And what do they have?
A humiliating deal giving the Tsilhqot’in an iron-clad veto over the project and a 22.5% equity share it the mine is ever permitted to proceed.
That was thanks mostly to the dominant position the Supreme Court of Canada gave the Tsilhqot’in in 2014 by awarding them the first aboriginal title lands in Canadian history.
I don’t blame the Tsilhqot’in for putting up a fight. Who’d want a mine in their backyard?
But we are the elephants here afraid of the mouse.
It’s absurd.
Imagine scaling aboriginal title across BC—that’s what DRIPA says to do.
Absurd. And everyone who knows anything about the issues understands that.
scale this across BC
Most large mines look for a 15-20% return on investment. Poof! Gone.
No rational investor should touch BC until this is dealt with.
And that will mean not only repealing DRIPA but constitutional reforms to abolish aboriginal title.
Lorne gets this. He’s too nice to come out and say it plainly like I do, but he gets it.
So if he wins tonight, which seems likely, it’s up to every other British Columbian who wants to actually bring normal back to BC to be the uncompromising radicals that he has to please in order to make that happen.
It's tempting to blackpill over Lorne being "too nice" to get anything done, but he's the incumbant in the ridingwhere aboriginal title was first declared. He knows it's been a disaster. He knows it has to go.
Hoping Conservatives win enough seats to boot Pavneet on Day One.Probably the worst candidate selected since John and Azim greenlit Boultbee
Would be great if right-leaning Premiers didn't just pander to the base when they are about to be thrown out the door.
Kathy Unreau won me over the moment she called Elizabeth May a cow.
It’s basically the only thing I know about her
And it’s enough.
Wish us luck in Saanich South.
Great gets. Debunking the foundational myths of decolonization is critical. future discussions should also include people who defend the positive legacy of French and British colonization and successive Canadian governance.
Tim Thielmann retweeted
Excellent piece. When a few unelected adjudicators can levy six-figure penalties over speech, the question isn't whether we can dismantle this system, but why we haven't. That's why I tabled my bill. We must continue to fight to abolish this ideologically captured regime.
How the B.C. NDP created a human rights regime to advance their ideological goals and why there is ample precedent for dismantling it today in @WDiminishment
Political and social groups champion ideas and values that align with their goals and act as tools to gain or maintain power.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the B.C. NDP’s dogged commitment to the B.C. human rights regime.
How comfortable are British Columbians with consolidating adjudicative power, backed by substantial monetary penalties, in the hands of a few unelected bureaucrats? This question demands an answer when considering our human rights regime.
Abolishing the Human Rights Tribunal and the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner would not be unprecedented in our province’s history, and the suggestion that these actions be taken should not be treated as something beyond possibility.
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You just can't be serious.
A few years ago, the full court press was on to import low-skilled foreign labour. Now the push is to import skilled tradesmen.
Layer this with the new directive to remove LMIA requirements for high-skilled jobs.
The only solace one can take from this years-long, self-inflicted pain is that the majority of Canadians now realize how stupid this is and no longer support mass immigration.
Canada is looking for skilled tradespeople, including carpenters, plumbers and machinists, to help build homes, strengthen our workforce and support critical infrastructure across the country.
If you have the training, credentials and experience in the skilled trades we’re looking for, explore our immigration pathways and build your future in Canada: bit.ly/4uXwAoe
Did you think that the land claim over private property in Richmond was the first time that the NDP instructed British Columbia’s lawyers to throw the case?
Think again.
NDP politicians have long used Aboriginal land claims to make British Columbians pay for yesterday’s colonial grievances, writes Tim Thielmann
nationalpost.com/opinion/the…
Here’s my position below. TLDR voting ONEBC in Tiedt writings increases the probability of an NDP government, which is undeniably incrementally worse than a BC Conservative government. We can build a better party on the right beginning after this election for four years without that risk.
On the Choices Facing the Rational Right in British Columbia
Registration is closed. OneBC is running 33 candidates in B.C.’s 93 ridings.
The latest Ipsos poll has the BC Conservatives and NDP statistically tied. At the same time, 338Canada rates 10 of the 33 OneBC ridings as close, including five toss-ups.
OneBC has been consistently polling under 5% province-wide.
And there aren’t any OneBC candidates, including Dallas Brodie, who have even a remote chance of winning a seat.
So what does a OneBC vote actually accomplish? Here is the math:
The opposite of what OneBC supporters actually want.
If OneBC takes just 2% in the closest 10 ridings, it raises the probability of an NDP government by 16 percent.
At 4%, the increase is roughly one-third.
An NDP majority only gets more certain as the OneBC vote share goes up.
OneBC supporters don’t have to have warm feelings for the BC Conservative Party to admit that it would do less damage to our province than another Eby majority.
You didn’t like how BC Conservative MLAs undermined Kerry-Lynne Findlay? Neither did I. But do you think NDP MLAs are any less self-serving? Their political operatives more principled? Their ideologues less radical?
For every landback MLA hiding out inside the BC Conservative tent, the NDP has 10. Same for climate catastrophists and trans-rights activists.And Foreign interests are heavily at work in both—and in OneBC too.
Admit it. No matter how angry you are with the BC Conservative Party, the rational move is to cut our losses not to compound them.
We need to turn BC around completely, but we don’t have a political vehicle ready right now. So the decision is whether to drive 50 km/h in the blue car or 100 km/h in the orange one.
The rational right only has one choice this election.
Take a breath, plug your nose, and elect BC Conservatives on October 24.
That’s when productive work begins.
We have the next four years to build a serious political party capable of actually delivering the change that OneBC was intended to bring.
