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
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.
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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…
OneBC spokesperson Daniel Bordman advised India to “play Canadians against each other”.
Dallas Brodie has decried “dual loyalties” of indigenous MP Wade Grant.
Will she renounce Bordman?
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'The anti-Canadian left has long scorned colonial history as an era of foreign occupation by the British. They treat the arrival of European colonists in the 16th century as the point at which Canadian history was put on hold, only to resume in the late 20th century.
It is regrettable, but not unexpected, that they are being joined by an amusing brigade of alleged “conservatives” and their fellow-travellers. They insist that because Canada’s founding document was signed in 1867, nothing that came before can be claimed by Canadians today. A fascinating thesis.
The notion that national histories are entirely determined by legal and political documents has no bearing on this continent.
Neither that Charter of Rights of Freedoms here, nor America’s Declaration of Independence, the New Deal or the Civil Rights Act wiped the slate clean'.
My latest in the @nationalpost, on nonsense regarding 1812 from last week.
nationalpost.com/opinion/geo…
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The judge went so far as to call the parole ban “cruel and unusual.”
Cruel and unusual is binding two grandparents in their 70s and torturing and murdering them in their own home.
This is an outrageous ruling that deserves to be condemned.
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Pavneet Singh is a horrendous candidate who should never have been greenlit.
The media has reported that you were paid by Indian media. Which companies, and how much? Show us the receipts.
