[thread] British Columbia political sewer 🪠

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

BC Conservative Platform Promises Bigger Deficits, Lacks Detail
‘Laughable’ the costed platform comes 4 days before election day, says Greens’ Furstenau
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/10/15/BC-Conservative-Platform-Promises-Big-Lacks-Detail

* costed platform i.e. platform costing (funding accountability): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3642744

#JohnRustad #BCconservatives #antiLGBT #populism #education #SOGI #conservatism #ParentalRightsMovement #ConspiracyTheorists #ClimateChange #JordanPeterson #ClimateDenial #FarRight #CostedPlatform
#transphobia #disinformation

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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These populist shills ramp up toxic/divisive rhetoric, demonizing vulnerable populations with no solutions/ability to pay for those programs if they magically materialize (usually corporate).
The ploy is to outsource to private groups (e.g. Cicero Institute in the USA - billionaire Joe Lonsdale). On the back end Cicero writes anti-homelessness model legislation.
B.C.: Chip Wilson, Pacific Prosperity Network, "Vancouver Is Dying" copaganda.

#billionaires #capitalism #libertarianism #WealthTax

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Incompetence or Worse? BC Conservatives’ Education Platform
Rustad’s party set education plans, changed them hours later
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/10/16/BC-Conservatives-Big-Education-Platform-Changes

* Voters worried BC Conservatives plan to implement secret/extreme agenda
* “remove classroom material that instills guilt based on ethnicity, nationality or religion, focusing instead on uplifting students & helping them thrive”
* i.e. schools couldn’t teach about residential schools, or internment of 22k Japanese Canadians during WWII

#BCWElxn2024

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Very Dangerous: BC Conservatives Seek to Force Far-Right Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ Ideology on BC Schools
https://pressprogress.ca/very-dangerous-educators-warn-bc-conservative-platform-seeks-to-force-far-right-anti-lgbtq-ideology-on-bc-schools

* BC Teachers’ Federation: BC Conservative education platform echoes language of U.S.-style right-wing culture war politics
* focus on purging “ideology” f. classrooms
* ban SOGI 123: educational tools that make schools safer/more inclusive for students of ALL sexual orientations, gender identities

#BCWElxn2024 #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Who's Running the BC Conservatives? The party is a new force on BC’s political scene
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/10/17/Who-Is-Running-BC-Conservatives

Comment: this smacks of conservative Lululemon billionaire, far-right political activist Chip Wilson (same players, agendae)
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110873929767684022

#BCWElxn2024 #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #SOGI123 #transphobia
#ChipWilson #Lululemon #WealthTax #PacificProsperityNetwork #disinformation #copaganda #propaganda #VancouverIsDying #TakeBackAlberta #protofascism

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Alberta Freedom Convoy group helping elect B.C. far right Conservatives
https://breachmedia.ca/freedom-convoy-group-british-columbia-elections

* radical right-wing BC Rising
* mobilizing to get B.C. Conservatives elected
* effort to replicate Take Back Alberta

Who's Running the BC Conservatives?
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113323474049946331

#BCWElxn2024 #BCconservatives #BCrising #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #SOGI123 #transphobia
#ChipWilson #WealthTax #PacificProsperityNetwork #disinformation #copaganda #VancouverIsDying #TBA #TakeBackAlberta #protofascism

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

David Eby reacts to B.C. billionaire Chip Wilson's pre-election op-ed
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/david-eby-reacts-to-b-c-billionaire-chip-wilson-s-pre-election-op-ed-1.7078071

Chip Wilson: far-right political interference:

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113267051506459019
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113110314298185466
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113289897808239223
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113323474049946331
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113324732944870422

#BCWElxn2024 #BCconservatives #BCrising #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #SOGI123 #transphobia
#ChipWilson #WealthTax #PacificProsperityNetwork #disinformation #copaganda #VancouverIsDying #TBA #TakeBackAlberta #protofascism

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

224 BC Election outcome

* fittingly, done under atmospheric river
* rural BC: BC Conservative; urban areas (Lower Mainland...): NDP
* outcome: minority government; bickering, stagnation ahead

No clear winner after tight B.C. election
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-wakes-to-election-uncertainty-with-conservatives-ndp-in-tight-race-1.7080352

B.C. election reflects voter frustration, final results pending
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-election-uncertainty-reflects-voter-frustration-eby-says-as-final-results-pending-1.7080144

Brent Chapman wins Surrey South
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/controversial-candidate-brent-chapman-wins-surrey-south-riding-1.7080100

#BCWElxn2024 #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #antiLGBT #ConspiracistTheorist

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Extreme, Far-Right BC Conservative Candidates Now B.C. Legislators
https://pressprogress.ca/meet-the-extreme-far-right-bc-conservative-candidates-who-are-now-legislators-following-bcs-wild-election

* BC Conservatives assoc. w. extreme, conspiratorial, bigoted views elected in British Columbia
* BC Conservatives: far-right party previously relegated to fringes of B.C. politics
* received 1% of vote, held no seats after prev. 2020 election
* U.S. style politics

#BCWElxn2024 #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #antiLGBT #ConspiracistTheorists #populism #billionaires #ChipWilson #ignorance