NEW: Conservative Leader @PierrePoilievre's office has named @steveouthouse as Chief of Staff while retaining his role as Campaign Manager, with @awudrick appointed as Deputy Chief of Staff.
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Two months don't make a trend but employment in B.C. fell by nearly 40,000 over February and March, driven largely by full-time private sector losses. Since 2019, private sector employment is up only 2%, lowest among all provinces #bcpoli
Here’s my issue.
If you were crossing the floor as an honest person, you’d layout your reasons, and act with humility that this is controversial, and try to get as much public support as possible and try to justify your decision.
What we’re seeing is a political class making jokes about it, making light of it, and not taking concerns for Canadians about this seriously. Even if you think it’s legitimate to cross the floor, surely, you cannot defend the poor decorum these individuals are showing.
Then, I see the people speculating as to why there’s so many, and some raising questions about incentives being offered, pressure being put on, and back room deals being made.
The public absolutely has a right, and perhaps a duty to speculate when our concerns are not being treated with respect and being answered candidly.
If the goal, is to achieve a majority government, which it obviously is, then they are doing so by trying to avoid going to the constituents to seek that mandate.
If 10 MPs are considering crossing, then we should just do an election.
I think this is indefensible at this stage.
As a First Nations Chief, I seek the mandate from my people, and for those who don’t like the decision our leadership makes, I seek to address their concerns.
I am not seeing that response from this government, and for that I am extremely disappointed and concerned.
Tonight the #CNTower will be lit periwinkle for IBS Awareness Month / Close-up of the CN Tower at night lit periwinkle/ Gros plan de la Tour CN illuminée en lilas la nuit
There’s a lot of chatter about debate participation. A few things:
1. I’m excited to take part in any & all debates sanctioned by the Conservative Party of BC including the two that are currently scheduled for the end of April.
2. The Juno debate is unsanctioned. Its timing before the membership cut-off date is taking time away from growing the party through membership sign-ups. And it involves candidate(s) who may not even be on the final ballot (major payments are due after the debate date).
3. When we originally agreed to participate, it was due to a misleading communication by a Juno representative (sent on March 12) that *all* other candidates had been confirmed to participate. To be clear: a message was sent to me, directly, saying that “everyone else is confirmed.”
This was untrue.
4. When it emerged that one main candidate had, in fact, *not* agreed to participate, we encouraged Juno to move the debate until after the membership cut-off so as not to be at a disadvantage (taking time to prepare for the debate while a competitor was signing up members).
5. The same Juno representative told us they would consider this. When they came back and said they wouldn’t reschedule, we declined to participate for all of the above reasons - but reiterated that I am (and remain!) happy to participate at a later date.
For now, I’m going to keep doing what I’ve been doing.
Meeting British Columbians all over this province. Hearing their concerns & taking their questions. Getting them excited about change & signing them up. Raising funds. Participating in the two scheduled, sanctioned debates. And - most of all - building a party and a movement that will defeat the NDP.
Fought for Canadian workers and Canadian interests on the world’s biggest podcast.
Thank you @joerogan for an amazing conversation.
Let’s get tariff-free trade.
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Trump: "A friend of mine who's a very smart guy, very very rich, very powerful man actually. But he's very fat. And he took the fat drug. It was Ozempic... the drug doesn't work on him. I saw him recently. He's actually fatter than ever."
Teneyche wouldn’t be doing this unless he felt @NVanCaroline had a real shot of winning the BC Conservative leadership. Establishes her as a frontrunner right off the bat.
Today I had the chance to tour the Surrey Transit Centre with some of my Conservative caucus colleagues and Vice-President Steve Vanagas.
This state-of-the-art facility plays a key role in keeping Metro Vancouver moving—with advanced bus operations, a top-notch maintenance hub, and modern CNG fueling systems.
Really appreciated the behind-the-scenes look—it was an eye-opener.