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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Conservatives rally support for bill that bans central bank digital currency, protects cash

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Isaac Lamoureux, True North Wire
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The Conservatives are calling on Canadians to support a bill that would protect cash currency and ban the government from establishing a central bank digital currency. 

Bill C-400, the Framework on the Access to and Use of Cash Act, successfully passed its first reading on June 13, 2024. 

The bill’s sponsor, MP Ted Falk, explained that Bill C-400 would create a national framework to protect the access and use of cash in Canada. The bill would also amend the Currency Act to limit the finance minister’s ability to unilaterally call in bank notes and amend the Bank of Canada Act, prohibiting the bank from creating a digital currency. 

Falk argued that such a law would further enshrine the privacy rights of Canadians guaranteed under the Charter.

“For millions of Canadians, particularly the most vulnerable folks in our population, physical cash is essential to everyday life. Likewise, charities, community organizations, and remote communities rely on cash to achieve their worthy goals,” said Falk. “Finally, in a world where governments, banks, and corporations are increasingly infringing on the privacy rights of Canadians, cash remains the only truly anonymous form of payment.”

Previous public consultations by the Bank of Canada showed that the vast majority of Canadians oppose implementing a digital currency in the country. 

A whopping 86% of Canadian respondents responded negatively to the idea of a digital Canadian dollar. Conversely, only 5% indicated a positive response, with less than 1% saying Canada needs a digital currency.

Respondents were able to leave anonymous comments at the end of the consultation.

“The fear of many Canadians is to use it as an instrument of control like the Chinese social credit model. We don’t want it,” wrote one respondent in French.

“Digital dollars will be tracked by all banks, all federal agencies and the (government). They will be programmed to control what people buy, how much accessed at a single time, carbon footprint, political party affiliations, religion, and every other possible aspect of your personal life,” wrote another respondent. 

When Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre mentions that he opposes digital currency at his rallies, it usually draws a lot of applause. 

“Let’s protect cash use, ensure businesses accept it, remove barriers for non-profits, and maintain cash infrastructure,” Poilievre wrote in a post to X on Sunday.

While the bill aims to protect the use of cash, which is more prevalent among seniors, Indigenous people, newcomers to Canada, and low-income Canadians, it also claims that non-profit and community organizations rely on cash for charitable activities. 

“And whereas cash as a form of payment provides a higher level of privacy than digital alternatives and that Canadians’ right to privacy is enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Privacy Act, as well as provincial privacy legislation,” reads the bill.

The Conservative party said that the Liberals pushed the Bank of Canada to print half a trillion dollars, doubling Canada’s debt, increasing inflation and interest rates, and leaving Canadian taxpayers with “a mountain of bills to pay-off.”

“Centralizing another currency in the hands of the government bureaucrats will only serve to make money printing schemes easier and take more power away from Canadians,” said the Conservative Party on its petition.

The framework developed by the bill will also include incentives for businesses and creditors to accept payments made in cash.

“This common-sense legislation would benefit vulnerable Canadians the most, as well as those who work so hard to support them. I hope the House will support the bill,” said Falk.

The Conservative’s petition said that the party believes digital currency should remain exclusively in the private sector, allowing Canadians to make investment choices without government influence or intervention. 

“We the undersigned call on the NDP-Liberals to support common sense Conservative Bill C-400 to ban the Bank of Canada from creating a Central Bank Digital Currency and ensure legal tender (cash) continues to be available across Canada,” said the Conservative party.

Canada’s assisted suicide program fastest growing in the world

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Noah Jarvis, True North Wire
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In the years since the Trudeau government legalized assisted suicide, Canada has seen a rapid rise in the number of Canadians seeking medical assistance to end their lives, rapidly outpacing peer nations with similar programs.

Canada’s assisted suicide regime has become one of the most permissive and easy to access in the world, allowing the practice to quickly become a leading cause of death in Canada.

A report from Cardus studied the development of Canada’s euthanasia program over the years, beginning with the Supreme Court of Canada case Carter v. Canada in which the court determined that the criminal prohibition on euthanasia and medically assisted suicide was unconstitutional. 

Both the Supreme Court and the Trudeau government stated that assisted suicide was intended for rare cases in which a patient is experiencing a high degree of suffering from a condition that will kill them in the foreseeable future. 

However, the practice is no longer used as a last resort with amendments to the original assisted suicide legislation making it accessible for anyone who deals with intolerable physical suffering like a disability that’s not terminal.

The report argues that there are few safeguards in the program to prevent unnecessary deaths, demonstrated by the fact that in 2022, 81% of all explicit assisted suicide requests end in a death with only 3.5% of requests being deemed ineligible. 

Applicants are seldom made to wait very long to receive suicide services, as the median length of time between request and the euthanization was only eleven days in 2022 and nine days in 2021.

For comparison, the American state of Oregon has a median time between assessment and provision of assisted suicide of 34 days, triple that of Canada’s median wait time despite having a program only available to the terminally ill. 

Canada has quickly become an international outlier in the growth of the assisted suicide regime, as the proportion of the population that has died from euthanasia has quadrupled from 2017-2022, reaching 4.2% of all deaths in Canada. 

This rate exceeds jurisdictions like the state of Washington, Oregon, Switzerland, and Belgium, all places in which their governments had legalized assisted dying far before Canada had. 

Provinces like Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Alberta have an assisted suicide rate that’s lower than the national average below 4% while 5.5% of all deaths in British Columbia are from euthanasia while the rate is 6.6% in Quebec.

Federal data shows that MAiD has quickly become the fifth leading cause of death in Canada, ahead of liver disease and cirrhosis, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. 

The Trudeau government initially legalized assisted suicide in 2016 in response to the Carter v. Canada decision by the Supreme Court. However, the Liberals expanded Canada’s regime in 2021 to allow Canadians whose death is not reasonably foreseeable to access the program and have delayed plans to allow the mentally ill access to MAiD until 2027 pending further review.

Canadian building permits continue to decline, dropping another 13.9% in June

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Quinn Patrick, True North Wire
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Canadian building permits dropped again in June by 13.9%, continuing the trend of a softening property market despite the government’s attempts to accelerate housing development.

According to Statistics Canada, the decline in June was even greater than the previous month, which saw permits drop 12.2% in May and the data is even worse on a year-over-year basis, where the overall value of permits issued in June has dropped by 21.6%. 

Building permits help to provide an indication of construction activity and Statistics Canada surveys 2,400 different municipalities which account for 95% of the country’s population. 

However, building permits do not guarantee that construction will be completed. 

The Conservatives slammed the Trudeau government’s housing strategy, calling it a “$4 billion photo op housing fund [that] doesn’t get homes built.” 

“Trudeau continues to reward city gatekeepers who block housing and he continues to spend more money than any other OECD nation on housing only to get the worst results,” Conservative Shadow Minister for Housing Scott Aitchinson told True North.

“Trudeau’s housing Minister admits that their $4 billion photo op housing fund doesn’t get homes built yet they continue to use the same failed strategy hoping for a different result.”

Building permits fell across both residential and nonresidential sectors.

“The total value of residential permits decreased 11.5% to $6.5 billion in June. Overall, 9 of the 13 provinces and territories contributed to this decline in residential permits,” Statistics Canada wrote. 

Provincially, Ontario and British Columbia saw the largest decline in multi-family dwelling permit values, with Ontario reporting the largest monthly decrease since December 2023.

“The total value of non-residential sector permits decreased 18.1% to $3.5 billion in June 2024,” reads the data. “The industrial component dropped 42.6% (-$447.2 million) in June, following a 21.3% increase in May.” 

Housing starts also fell 9% in June, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, with a 0.4% average drop across the last six months.

“The actual number of housing starts across Canada in urban centres of 10,000 population and over was down 13% to 20,509 units in June compared to 23,518 units in June 2023. The year-over-year decrease was driven by lower multi-unit starts, down 16%, while single-detached starts were similar to last June,” reads the CMHC news release.

“June’s total actual housing starts were markedly lower in two of Canada’s three major cities compared to June 2023, with Toronto down 60% and Vancouver down 55%.”

CMCH’s chief economist Bob Dugan said that the “higher interest rate environment appears to have caught up with some of Canada’s major centres as lower multi-unit starts.”

However, the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate in June, becoming the first Group of Seven central bank to do so and followed up with a second rate cut in July as inflation has continued to ease. 

These cuts are expected to help incentivize housing market activity. 

Yet despite the first interest rate cut in June, building permits continued to be issued in a declining trend. 

The Liberals’ 2024 budget pledged to invest $8.524 billion over the next five years in various housing measures. The feds have pledged to build 3.87 million homes by 2031. 

However, that promise would require Canada to build 1.096 houses every minute from the announcement of the budget until 2031. 

If elected, the Conservatives have pledged to cut red tape and give cities and municipalities financial rewards from a federal pot if they meet their intended housing targets and penalties if they don’t.

“Common Sense Conservatives will require municipalities to remove gatekeepers and to build 15% more homes every year, providing a building bonus for exceeding the target or imposing a fine if they don’t,” said Aitchison.

“We will also cap wasteful inflationary government spending and fix the budget to bring down inflation and interest rates so builders can build the homes Canadians can afford.”

Feds urge businesses to prepare for “new virus” pandemic gas & food shortages

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Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, True North Wire
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The federal workplace health and safety regulator wants Canadian businesses to prepare a pandemic plan for the possibility of a “new virus” that could lead to food or fuel disruptions in the most extreme scenarios. 

In June, the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety quietly released the second edition of its Flu and Infectious Disease Outbreaks Business Continuity Plan Handbook. 

CCOHS said that the updated handbook serves as a comprehensive guide for employers, advising them on what to prepare for in the face of another pandemic. 

However, what sets this edition apart is its explicit focus on a hypothetical “new virus” that could trigger widespread disruption with CCOHS using the recent Covid-19 crisis and the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic as case examples.

In this new edition, the CCOHS writes that businesses must prepare for scenarios far more severe than a temporary closure or a drop in customer demand – although the guide frequently mentions travel restrictions, public gathering bans and quarantines.

Citing the Public Health Agency of Canada, the CCOHS states that “based on trends from past pandemic flus, there may be a higher average number of illness and deaths in age groups different than what we typically see during annual flu seasons.” 

The CCOHS did not respond to True North’s request for clarification and comment.

The guide warns that employers must be ready for a situation where a serious infectious disease outbreak or pandemic forces significant portions of the workforce to stay home, even leading to disruptions of basic goods.

“If there is a pandemic, how many people will be off work? It is impossible to determine with certainty – estimates vary because no one will know for sure how ill the new virus will make people, how fast it will spread, or how many people will not go to work, until it happens,” writes the CCOHS. 

According to the handbook, a future pandemic “will come in 2 or 3 waves about 3 to 9 months separating each outbreak. Each wave is expected to last approximately 6 to 8 weeks. A pandemic may last in these cycles for up to two years or more.” 

The implications of this scenario are far-reaching. The guide urges employers to brace for reduced labor supply, supply chain interruptions, and dramatic shifts in consumer demand. 

Perhaps most concerning is the warning about possible disruptions in essential services such as telecommunications, banking, water, power, gasoline, medicine, and even the food supply.

“In more extreme situations, (expect) possible disruptions in other services such as telecommunications, financial/banking, water, power (hydro), gasoline/fuels, medicine or the food supply.” 

Pandemic contingency plans exist at several levels of government. As exclusively reported by True North, Canada, the United States and Mexico released an updated human-animal influence pandemic agreement that included considerations for further vaccine mandates, border measures and travel restrictions. 

The Daily Brief | More bonuses for CBC execs

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Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Source: Flickr

After announcing mass layoffs, executives at CBC are swimming in luxurious bonuses paid for by Canadian taxpayers despite performance woes at the top public broadcaster.

Plus, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis mocked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Stanley Cup record.

And a new poll reveals Canadians prefer Mark Carney as new Liberal leader over Justin Trudeau. However, Carney’s addition to the Liberal cabinet may not be enough to regain support from voters.

Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Noah Jarvis!

No arrests after anti-Israel protesters clash with police and disrupt Montreal Pride parade 

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Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire
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Source: Facebook

Police have reported no arrests after a Pride parade in Montreal was disrupted by anti-Israel protesters and a face-off with police.

Fierté Montréal, or Montreal Pride’s march, was disrupted by several anti-Israel LGBT+ activist groups on Sunday, which claimed that Montreal Pride is funding genocide with its apparent support of “Zionist and Israeli companies.” 

Police told True North that no arrests or injuries were reported despite the clash.

The protest began at Metcalfe St. and René-Lévesque Blvd. at 1 p.m. and ended on time at 4:50 p.m., though protesters disrupted the flow of the march, first intercepting the parade at René-Lévesque and Jeanne-Mance St.

A police representative said the group sometimes partially blocked the parade, forcing Pride marchers to move around them. At various locations throughout the event, the protesters completely blocked the parade.

“At one point, the longest time protesters blocked the parade completely was 30 minutes. The organizers and the SPVM officers took a bypass, taking the other side of the street to let the march continue,” police said. 

A left-wing activist group Clash MTL claimed responsibility for hijacking a street sign to call to “globalize the intifada” and “escalate” last month and posted a video tagging various anti-Israel groups, who banded together and clashed with police at the event.

“Today, Montreal Pride organizers sent SPVM riot police to attack Palestine protesters who disrupted the Pride parade. It won’t soon be forgotten,” the group posted. “Bravo to F.A.G.S. #prideisariot.”

The Faction Anti-Genocidaire et Solidaire, better known as F.A.G.S, a group that describes itself as “Queers of conscience denouncing Fierté Montreal’s pinkwashing,” was a primary organizer of the protest against the Pride parade.

The group called for support earlier in the day due to police presence at the parade. 

“Support needed at René Levesque and Jeanne Mance! F.A.G.S. is marching against Fierté Montreal’s investments in so-called Israel!” the group said before informing participants to dress in “flamboyant / normie queer bloc or drag bloc” to conceal identities and to blend in with the parade.

A look at the F.A.G.S. Instagram page shows the group uses an upside-down triangle in place of the letter A in its name. The inverted triangle has become a pro-Hamas symbol as an inverted red triangle is used in Hamas propaganda videos to indicate the next target of the terrorist group’s gunfire.

An inverted pink triangle was also used to indicate gay prisoners in concentration camps run by the National Socialist Party of Germany during WW2.

Another group tagged in connection with the protest was Pink Bloc MTL, which describes itself as an organization of queer and anticapitalist revolutionaries.

F.A.G.S. also coordinated a “Rad, (radical) Pride” event with Pink Bloc MTL Saturday night. The event, which was billed as anti-capitalist, anti-Zionist, anti-patriarchy and anti-police, ended in vandalized businesses and clashes with police.

Clash MTL framed the damage as the fault of police for “creating a volatile situation” when they attempted to disperse the protest.

“The demonstration ping-ponged from one end of the Village to the other, throwing fires fireworks and breaking windows on Sainte-Catherine, entering and leaving at certain moments the dense crowd of the festival to escape the police,” Clash MTL posted to Instagram. “There is no pride in genocide. Our pride is an intifada!”

One woman on a post from the Pride event, which was cancelled, claimed that she was working in one business that was targeted in the Rad Pride event, which left her “traumatized for (her) life.”

“Don’t tell me it’s a f#@%ng peaceful protest if y’all breaking things…I’m just trying to survive like y’all in this f#%^ng economy. Breaking things will never make a change. Now I’m scared to go to work just in case y’all tryna break more,” Noemy Tremblay said on Instagram.

The groups involved in organizing the protest and Fierté Montréal did not respond to True North’s request for comment.

Trudeau, Ford partner on another huge EV investment despite declining interest

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Isaac Lamoureux, True North Wire
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Source: X

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford have pledged to subsidize a combined $64 million in a half a billion project by Goodyear.

Monday’s investment announcement follows indicators showing a continued decline in EV interest.

In 2023, electric vehicles took 22 days to sell, but by Apr. 2024, the average was 55 days. In contrast, gas-powered cars took an average of 51 days to sell.

In the last four years, the Liberals said that the party has invested more than $46 billion in electric vehicle manufacturing in Canada. Despite the massive and continuous investment, Canadians’ desire for electric vehicles has plummeted, as have sales worldwide.

Ontario Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Jay Goldberg, said this announcement is part of a long series of partnerships between the Trudeau and Ford governments engaging in “corporate welfare.”

“Together, they spent almost $50 billion of taxpayer money, giving these free handouts to these auto and auto part manufacturer companies in Ontario. In many cases, spending well over $1 million a job with declining demand for electric vehicles,” said Goldberg. “The most important basic thing is government money should not be going out of the pockets of hard-working Canadians and into the pockets of these wealthy auto giants who just don’t need taxpayer bailouts.”

The Liberals previously announced that all vehicles sold by 2035 must be electric.

Due to declining sales, Tesla laid off 10% of its global workforce in Apr. Ford has postponed its EV production in Oakville, Ontario, for the next two years. General Motors had a target to build 400,000 electric vehicles by the middle of 2024, which has since been abandoned due to lower-than-expected sales.

Car rental companies are also reducing their electric vehicle inventories; Hertz announced plans to sell one-third of its U.S. EV fleet and reinvest in gas-powered vehicles.

Fraser Institute’s director of natural resource studies, Elmira Aliakbari, and policy analyst Julio Mejia said the direction should raise some eyebrows. 

“The sluggish demand for EVs and the response from automakers should raise red flags for both the Trudeau government and Biden administration, given the massive subsidies (a.k.a. corporate welfare) injected into the EV and battery production industry,” wrote Aliakbari and Mejia in an op-ed published in May.

The two added that the Parliamentary Budget Officer said it would take 20 years to break even on the $28.2 billion given to the battery plant in Windsor. This break-even analysis does not include the $5 billion given to Honda.

Goldberg said this 20-year assumption was based on the best-case scenario. Demand would not fall, companies would not leave Canada, and sales would persist — conditions which have not held. 

“You’ve got 50% of Canadians saying they’re $200 away from not being able to pay their bills. And somehow the federal government expects all of those folks to be able to run out and buy an electric vehicle by 2035. That’s not going to happen,” said Goldberg. 

The $5 billion subsidy given to Honda was to create 1,000 jobs, costing Canadian taxpayers $5 million per job. 

According to a previous Consumer Reports survey, electric vehicles have 79% more problems than their gas counterparts.

The Liberals’ press release said that the $575 million investment will create 200 new jobs by 2027 and secure 1,000 jobs in Napanee. The plant aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2040, helping Canada achieve its goal of a net-zero economy by 2050.

The Canada Electricity Advisory Council’s final report, released in June, argued that the federal government’s plan for a net-zero electricity system by 2035 would cost up to $2 trillion. According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz, the report proved that the 2035 deadline for a net-zero grid is “unrealistic and unattainable.” 

“Whether you’re talking about Volkswagen, Stellantis, Ford, they’re all companies that have had tens of billions of dollars of profits in recent years that do not need taxpayer help,” said Goldberg. “The only reason the government is getting involved is because, in most cases, these companies wouldn’t be doing this EV push without government handouts and bribes.” 

Ratio’d | What is going on in Brampton?

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Harrison Faulkner
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Brampton is one of the weirdest cities in Canada. Every week something is happening in that city that goes viral on social media. Right now international students from India continue to protest every weekend demanding work permit extensions while saying that they are being treated like passengers on the Komagata Maru. Weekly street brawls at car meets continue in Brampton and now there are slum lords protesting in the street protesting against licenses.

Why is Brampton the way that it is?

Watch the latest episode of Ratio’d with Harrison Faulkner!

CBC dishes out $18.4 million in taxpayer-funded bonuses after firings 

By
Quinn Patrick, True North Wire
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Source: X

After announcing mass layoffs, executives at CBC are swimming in luxurious bonuses paid for by Canadian taxpayers despite performance woes at the top public broadcaster. 

The CBC dished out $18.4 million in bonuses in June for the 2023-24 fiscal year for “performance pay,” after laying off hundreds of employees and eliminating vacant positions. 

The bonuses were given to 1,194 CBC/Radio-Canada employees and $3.3 million of that was paid out to 45 executives, who received an average bonus of $73,000. 

According to Statistics Canada, $73,000 is more than the median income for a family after taxes in 2022. 

Over $10.4 million was given to 631 managers and the remaining $4.6 million was paid out to 518 non-union employees. 

“Enough is enough, the taxpayer-funded bonuses at the CBC must end,” said Alberta director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in a press release. “If the CBC isn’t willing to do the right thing, then the heritage minister, finance minister or Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must step in and end these taxpayer-funded bonuses.”

The Crown corporation quietly approved the bonuses only days after the House of Commons closed for summer recess.

A total of $114 million in bonuses has been given out by the CBC since 2015 and the state broadcaster is slated to receive $1.4 billion in taxpayer money this year, breaking all previous funding records. 

That figure does not include the additional $42 million it received from the Trudeau government in top-up funding, following CBC President Catherine Tait’s complaints that it suffered from “chronic underfunding.” 

“In a shocking display of incompetence and greed, the CBC has given itself $18.4 million in bonuses,” said Conservative MP and Opposition heritage critic Rachael Thomas in a post to X. “The CBC must answer. The CBC must be defunded.”

True North contacted the CBC to inquire how such bonuses were justified given the broadcaster’s recent layoffs.

“Government departments, Crown corporations, and most private companies use performance pay (also called “at-risk pay”) as a portion of compensation for non-union employees to help ensure delivery on specific targets,” media relations director Leon Mar told True North.

“While the term “bonuses” has been used to describe performance pay, it is in fact a contractual obligation owing to eligible employees.”

While discussing exceeding its digital engagement targets in its annual review, the CBC said that “on average, each unique visitor to our sites spends 37.6 minutes every month with CBC/Radio-Canada digital services.” 

That averages to about less than 90 seconds per day by those who visit the CBC’s website. 

Whether referred to as bonuses or performance pay, several politicians had been putting pressure on the state broadcaster for the exact figures this spring after it refused to disclose the details. 

A House of Commons heritage committee meeting in May was abruptly halted by Liberal MPs after Tait refused to disclose her taxpayer-funded performance bonus.

However, Hubert Lacroix, Tait’s predecessor, told a Senate committee in 2014 that his annual bonus was “around 20%.”

The exact numbers came as a result of financial records obtained through an access-to-information request. 

“CBC fat cats should be taking pay cuts, not rubber stamping millions in taxpayer-funded bonuses for its executives and managers,” said Sims. “It’s time to end the taxpayer-funded bonuses and defund the CBC.”

Latest poll shows British Columbians disapprove of NDP gov on key issues

By
Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire
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Source: Facebook

British Columbians who disapprove of Premier David Eby’s NDP government’s handling of most key issues outweigh those who approve.

According to a Leger survey released Monday, more B.C. residents were dissatisfied with the current provincial government’s handling of key issues than otherwise, often flipping the reported support from four years prior.

The study asked over a thousand British Columbians their thoughts on the current government’s handling of key issues and compared it to Leger’s other surveys on the same topic since June 2020.

When asked if residents approved of the government’s handling of the opioid, drug overdose and drug poisoning crisis, 63% disapproved of Eby’s policies, while 18% approved. 

When compared to responses received to the same question in 2020 under former premier John Horgans’ NDP government, 42% disapproved, with a third reporting satisfaction with the government’s handling of the same issues.

In 2020, 41% approved of the government’s handling of crime levels and general safety, and 29% disapproved. However, in 2024, 56% reported disapproval of the current government’s handling of crime and safety issues, with only 27% approving.

Disapproval ratings increased on the government’s response to poverty, homelessness and housing as well. 

More than 60% of British Columbians disapprove of the government’s approach on each of those issues, and less than 20% report approval of Eby’s handling of each category.

More B.C. residents now disapprove of the current NDP government’s oversight of the economy than approve. From 50% approving of Horgan’s NDP government’s economic oversight in 2020 and 31% disapproving to nearly half of British Columbians expressing disapproval in 2024 and 32% saying they approved.

Eby’s office did not respond to True North’s request for comment.

“British Columbians are ready for common sense change. This radical NDP government has been in power since 2017, and since then, just about everything has gotten worse,” Angelo Isidorou, the campaign director for the Conservative Party of B.C. told True North in an email. “Under the Eby-Trudeau Carbon Tax, everyday life has become unaffordable. Meanwhile, the NDP continues to push radical policies like the decriminalization of hard drugs and the myth of a so-called “safe” supply. What we see is more addiction, overdoses and misery,” he said.

In a handful of the 26 key issues B.C. residents were asked about, more B.C. residents reported approval than disapproval. 

51% of respondents approved of the provincial government’s response to wildfires, while 29% disapproved.

Other key issues that B.C. residents approved of the current government more than otherwise were the government’s actions towards reconciliation with Indigenous and First Nations people and its tackling of “systemic racism.”

According to the survey, the B.C. Conservatives still have a ways to go if they want to form government in the upcoming October election.

Less than a third of those surveyed, 31%, agreed that Eby’s government has poorly governed the province and that either BC United or the Conservatives should be elected in the upcoming election.

Less than that, 27% believed the NDP had done well in governing and should be elected again. However, among those surveyed, 17% felt that the current government has done poorly but is still the best shot for the province.

If those who said “I don’t know” when asked were removed from the equation, 41% of British Columbians think that the current NDP government has got to go. 36% think they did a good job and ought to be re-elected, and 23% say they’ve been bad at governing but are still the province’s best choice.

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