LIVE from Vancouver: Defending your property rights town hall

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:01]Hello, beautiful British Columbia.

[00:00:07]>> Who's ready to defend their property rights here in BC?

[00:00:12]>> Wow. I I asked for a small town hall meeting to discuss property rights. And look at the turnout we got. I think we've got a few conservatives in this province, don't we?

[00:00:24]Look at this incredible group. We've got the amazing Jamie Schmail all the way in from Ontario, our shadow minister of indigenous affairs, Chief Billy Morren, our our shadow minister of Crown Indigenous Relations, former chief who balanced the budget, brought down unemployment, and made his community one of the wealthiest in Canada.

[00:00:43]Congratulations, Chief. We've got Teo Vanpa, our task force chairman on property rights. We've got Shaka, member of Parliament from Richmond.

[00:00:58]We've got Steven Curran, the next member of parliament for North Van Kapalano.

[00:01:09]>> And I think I saw my amazing friend Carrie Lynn Finley who's with us here today.

[00:01:20]We were out today, Dad, knocking on doors with uh Steven Curran, your next member of parliament. He's busy fighting for property rights, affordability, safety, and uh but the problem is we can't get him to stop knocking on doors.

[00:01:34]Even when the sun goes down, he keeps on going. And it actually became a problem the other day. He was out knocking and it was 9:00 and he kept going and it got to 9:30 and his team said, "Okay, Stephen, time to knock it off." And he kept going. 10:00 hits. He's still knocking on doors. It's starting to get dark. It's very dark, actually. He gets to the end of the street and there's one more house. All the lights are out. And the team said, "Stephen, don't do it."

[00:02:06]He says, "If I lose this bi-election by one vote and I don't knock on this door, I'll never forgive myself." So he goes up to the door, knocks, all of a sudden, baby's crying, and a lady came down. She opened the door, and she said, "You just woke up my six-month-old twins."

[00:02:27]And he said, "My" She said, "My husband is a Russian weightlifter, and he's he's coming down to have a word with you."

[00:02:35]And Steven said, "That won't be necessary. Just tell him that the local liberal candidate dropped by to say hello.

[00:02:41]quick on his feet.

[00:02:47]This is the kind of quick thinking we need in Parliament, isn't it? But it's great to be back in the beautiful British Columbia. Such a spectacular place. It brings so many boyhood memories, the times when we take the road trip, the winding road all the way from Calgary, Alberta to Vancouver, British Columbia. We'd have so much fun on those trips. We'd get out here and my folks would tell me, "Work hard, save up. You can come visit here when you're an adult." I actually showed up um uh at one of the lakes along the way. I think it was in Pentictton. And we went did some camping and my um I went saw this at the side of the the water. I saw these kids buzzing around and what what I would learn were these things called jet skis. You know, this is when they were just becoming a thing. So I went to my dad and said, "Can you rent me one of these things?" and he went and checked.

[00:03:37]It was like 80 bucks for an hour. So he said, "No, we can't afford that." And instead, he rented me one of those yellow little yellow pedal boats. And so I pedled under the water and these two kids started buzzing around me in a jet ski. And I came to the side of the to the shore and I went to my dad and I was crying. I said, "You know, these kids have a jet ski. I have this little rinky dink pedal boat and it's not fair.

[00:04:01]You've got to rent me one of the jet skis." He said, "I'll make you a deal.

[00:04:04]When you get old enough to drive, you can save enough enough money by getting a job and we'll lend you our minivan, our Chevy Luminina, and you can drive all the way out here alone, and you can pay for the gas and the campsite and rent your own jet ski because that's how it works. If you want nice things, you have to work hard." That was the rule that my parents taught me when I was a kid. Work hard, get nice things. But, and believe it or not, I actually did. I saved up my money. I worked at the Calgary Stampede. I did I worked in a call center for Telus and I saved up enough money to come out and rent my own little jet ski. But the difference today is it doesn't seem to matter how hard people work, they can't get the things that we used to take for granted. Our young people can't afford homes. Our single mothers, no matter how many hours they work or how carefully they spend their money, when they get to the checkout at the grocery store, they have to put items back because it's just too expensive. And then on their way home, they see homeless people and drug addicts. They feel that their children are at risk as rising crime rages on our streets. And of course, we have more and more danger as foreign conflicts spill over into Canada because of an outofcontrol liberal immigration system and a divide and conquer mentality that has imported problems from far away onto our streets. That's how the Liberals broke this country.

[00:05:29]And and then we were told that the Liberals had learned their lesson that Mark Harney, who came along and promised that he would reverse his position on every single stance that he'd taken for the prior 10 years. Because of course Mark Carney for all the mythology about his incredible credentials has been wrong about every single major economic issue of our time. He was wrong to support a bigger and broader carbon tax. Wrong to oppose oil and gas. Wrong to create the net zero alliance. A group of banks deliberately setting out to defund our energy sector because he said that oil and gas He said that our oil and gas sector was going to cause the whole world to burn.

[00:06:23]He then was wrong when he predicted during co that prices would fall and that we could print limitless amounts of money and we would not have inflation.

[00:06:33]These were the predictions of the great monetary genius on which he was wrong.

[00:06:38]He was wrong on every single issue. So he reverses himself right before the election and promises to implement a conservative party platform. Exactly the opposite has happened over the last decade last year. He has doubled Justin Trudeau's deficit. He's given us the worst grocery price inflation, the worst productivity, the worst uh household debt anywhere in the G7, the worst housing costs anywhere in the G7. Crime and chaos continue to rage out of control as he's not brought in a single solitary change to the criminal justice system. He's announced many. Not one of them have passed. Literally, not one comma has been changed in the criminal code in the last year. And of course, we have criminals, terrorists, and fraudsters who are on our streets from other countries. My friends, ignore the illusions. Mark Carney brings nothing more than more costs, more crime, more corruption, more chaos. He's just another liberal. And and as a result, we need now more than ever a conservative team to fight for all of you. And I want to invite up on the stage Stephen Cerran, our candidate in the forthcoming bi-election. Give him a round of applause, everybody.

[00:08:02]So, I'm going to bring this guy up here a few times because you're going to find him extremely impressive. Corporate lawyer, works in mergers and acquisitions. He's been successful. He went off to the States, made a lot of money, but decided he loved Canada too much. So, he came back to this country.

[00:08:15]He He's from Edmonton, Alberta. So, he's a great prairie boy originally, but he's How long have you lived in Vancouver now? Greater >> 2010.

[00:08:22]>> 2010. So he's been here for seven 16 years now and he he has a beautiful wife who's from a very warm place and so she could not sell tolerate the prairie winter. So what did they do? They came to beautiful British Columbia where you have the the most mild and beautiful weather. And when you've been out there knocking on doors, what are you hearing at the doorstep?

[00:08:43]>> First and foremost, the lack of defense of private property. That is the number one issue I'm hearing on the doorsteps right now.

[00:08:54]And what I tell people on the doorsteps, what I tell people on the phone calls is, help me send a message to Ottawa.

[00:09:02]Help me send a message that our homes, our property are for Canadians and are for our people. Let's protect those assets. Everything is dependent on that.

[00:09:14]Our industry is dependent on that. Our families are dependent on private property protection. Number one issue.

[00:09:21]Crime and safety in our communities is also a growing concern. I tell people on the doorsteps, help me send a message.

[00:09:29]And I know there's a lot of you out there from outside of North Vancouver Capalano that have uh are dedicated conservative supporters out in the lower mainland. I ask you tonight to help me send that message to Ottawa. Help me in this bi-election. This is our time to change the narrative in this country and to show finally that Canadians are waking up to their economic reality and they don't like it.

[00:09:58]There he is.

[00:10:04]It would send an incredible message if the people of Vancouver Kapalano were to send this great man to Parliament Hill.

[00:10:11]And let's walk through some of the things that we conservatives are fighting for. First of all, we are fighting for affordability. That means ending the inflationary deficits by cutting back the consultants, the bureaucracy, the corporate welfare, the foreign aid.

[00:10:27]Let's keep our money in Canada by cutting foreign aid.

[00:10:37]We will be cutting back on handouts to fake and phony refugees that come to our country to rip off our system.

[00:10:50]And we will be cracking down on the offshore tax havens that companies like Brookfield use to avoid paying their share.

[00:11:02]It's incredible. Mark Carney has millions of dollars to this day still invested in Brookfield, which has been called the single biggest tax dodger. So that while he forces you to pay high taxes, he dodges those same taxes himself by closing those loopholes. We can relieve the burden of the hardworking middle class taxpayer in Canada by forcing multinationals to pay what they owe in this country. At the same time, we have to reduce the tax by bringing down the deficit. You don't have to print money anymore, which can preserve the purchasing power of our dollar. Because the central bank's purpose should be to have low, stable prices, not to print cash for politicians to spend. We want a a solid dollar that preserves its value. Well, we actually want you to be able to bring it home. So, we're actually going to cut income taxes, fight for lower income taxes so that you bring home more of each dollar you earn and your hard work actually pays off. We're going to get rid of we're fighting for right now eliminating all taxes on gas for the rest of this calendar year which would save you 1,200 bucks.

[00:12:12]220 at the 220 right now. Unbelievable what you're paying at the pumps. A complete ripoff. In fact, it's 13% higher in Canada than it is in the United States. And Liberals love to blame the rest of the world for their problems. And yes, there is a war in the Middle East. You know when else there was a war in the Middle East? Back in 2014, there were wars in Syria and Iraq and in Crimea, in Ukraine, and oil prices were well over $100 a barrel. And guess what? Here in Canada, gas prices were a buck 35. So, it's not true that we have no control over this. Why is our gas so expensive? because our taxes are higher and our dollar is so much weaker.

[00:12:55]You have a weak dollar, everything that's denominated in US dollars becomes more expensive. So back in the Harper era, we were at par when there was a $100 a barrel. And that meant that your payments at the pump were significantly lower.

[00:13:13]We need a strong dollar again.

[00:13:17]And to have a strong dollar Whoa. That's a powerful microphone.

[00:13:24]Wow. Jeez. Isn't that incredible? Is this a This is a This is sound inflation.

[00:13:34]It's It's a liberal microphone. A liberal mic. Wow. Does anybody have any eard drums left after that?

[00:13:42]But how do you get a strong dollar? You got to sell more of what you have on the world stage. you sell more oil and gas and other resources, then other countries actually have to buy the Canadian dollar in order to buy those resources. That's how you get a stronger dollar that gives more purchasing power to your people. And so, we're going to unblock our resources, repeal the anti-energy laws, C69, get rid of the West Coast shipping ban so that we can ship oil off the Northwest Coast or British Columbia.

[00:14:16]We could, you know, if we had a million barrel a day pipeline from Hardesty, Alberta to Prince Roupert, that would move a trillion dollars of oil overseas over a 35- year period. A trillion dollars to enrich our people, give better paychecks, lift people out of poverty, and make this the richest country anywhere on Earth. This would be an incredible victory for British Columbia. All the steel workers and trades people that would be working to put it in, those that would be working at the Brouper port in order to ship it off. This would be an incredible victory. And if I we are going to fight every day in every way to clear the path to get that built with fast permits. And by the way, that also means getting rid of the industrial carbon tax. Get rid of the entire carbon tax for good.

[00:15:07]We're going to get rid of all taxes on home buildings and speed up the incentivize the municipalities to speed up the permits and free up land so that we can build the homes that our young people can afford to they can start beautiful families and any uh any of the uh older people in the room. You're going to have wonderful grandchildren when we're a conservative government because your your kids are going to be able to afford a home to raise them in and they're going to be safe again because we're going to to to repeal all the catch and release, hug a thug laws that the Liberals have brought in. We'll lock up the criminals for good.

[00:15:47]Tough laws that mean three strikes, you're out. Three serious violent offenses and the person will no longer be eligible for bail, parole, pro probation, or house arrest. It will be jail and not bail. We will take the very small group of repeat offenders off the street, put them behind bars, and we're going to ban all the hard drugs, the fentinol, the c the crack, the cocaine, shut down the unsafe supply.

[00:16:20]this insane this insane experiment with so-called safe supply. It's the most unsafe thing ever to give people more of the same drugs that got them into trouble in the first place. There's only one group that helps and that's the corrupt pharmaceutical companies that caused this crisis in the first place.

[00:16:44]And by the way, we're going to launch the mother of all lawsuits against big pharma to make them pay for this crisis.

[00:16:49]and use the money we recover to put our people in treatment services. We will take our f our brothers and sisters off the streets and we will put them in treatment and recovery in including compulsory recovery for those who have lost their faculties. Let's get people leaving people on the street to kill themselves and to endanger others is not compassion. What is compassion is to get them off drugs and get them back with their families. And that's what we're going to do.

[00:17:22]And finally, we're going to regain control of our borders. No more out of control insane mass migration. We We will get rid of the temporary foreign worker program all together so that Canadian jobs go to Canadian kids.

[00:17:42]And we'll cut back on the international student program. We will get rid of the fraudulent refugee claims that cost so much money while people who are in no danger come and take advantage of our country. And those immigrants who have come here legally and lawfully will be will find a country that is welcoming and filled with opportunity. For example, we will bring in a national blue seal program that allows them to take a test, prove they're qualified, and get licensed in their professions to work as doctors, nurses, engineers in other high-paying jobs that will help our economy.

[00:18:18]We we all of this requires that we have solid and reliable property rights. Property rights are the foundation of every economic civilization. It is impossible to build anything anywhere in the world that property rights do not exist. Um Hernando Dotto, the great international economist, he pointed out that in the world's poorest countries, the poorest people have trillions of dollars of wealth. Why do they live in shanty towns? Because they have no title over the land on which they live. So it becomes impossible for them to improve the land they live on or to build a home or a business or anything else knowing that it could easily be confiscated. The biggest difference between a poor country and a rich country is in a rich country you have reliable property rights that are upheld in courts of law so that people know when they work hard, they make a purchase, they improve a piece of property that it will be reliably theirs. Now we took that for granted in Canada for a very long time.

[00:19:20]But recently there was a ruling which has cast doubt on the reliability of the property rights that literally thousands of homeowners this time in Richmond uh own. It's about 800 acres worth a billion dollars of land. And in the Kawichin case, which is the longest court case ever, an 800page ruling came down that that determined that Aboriginal title superseded fe simple property. Now to be clear, the the Kowichin tribes have said they do not want actually to have people's homes, but the ruling by the judge does put major question marks over the future of the property that is in question and it is the first time that this ruling has happened. Now, why did it happen?

[00:20:10]Well, the li the federal Liberal government is the defendant in this case. This is not Mr. EI has been forefront on this for some reason, but it was actually a case brought by the Kowichin tribes against the government of Canada. The job of the Liberal government was to defend your property in court. In 2018, this Liberal government issued an edict. It's called guideline 14, which instructed federal lawyers not to argue for the priority of private property over all other claims. You can find that edict on the federal government's website today. In other words, it is the position of Mark Carney that he instructs his lawyers in writing not to defend property rights in the court of law even as this ruling has happened and we are facing another appeal. And the the judge said, "How can I possibly come to the conclusion that property rights take precedence if the government refused to even make that argument in the court of law?" And hey, hard to hard to un hard to dispute that when our own government doesn't make that dispute. I've asked Mr. Carney in the floor of the House of Commons why he doesn't reverse his instructions and tell his lawyers to defend your property, and he refuses to give an answer almost 10 months after that ruling came down, casting all kinds of uncertainty. Now, in Richmond, there are investments that are being cancelled.

[00:21:43]Today I spoke to a businessman who heard from one of the most well-known electronics retailers that they are halting all their investments in this region until such time as the property rights question is settled. And then the Liberals came along and signed the Musquam framework with a which covers a far larger area of land in the lower mainland. Ironically, not just Metro Vancouver and Kquitlam and other areas, but also the same Richmond land that was at stake in the Kawichin case. And that agreement does not protect property rights. The Liberal government in Ottawa has jeopardized your home, your property, and your future with their failure to do that. And that's why Conservatives have launched a four-point plan which will be voted on on the floor of the House of Commons on Monday. And I ask you to tune in to find out how Liberal MPs from the Lower Mainland are voting. Our motion would call on the government to reverse guideline 14 and explicitly instruct all federal lawyers to argue that property rights come first above every other claim.

[00:23:00]Second, we say that the government of Canada should not sign any more agreements unless and until they clearly state that those agreements cannot infringe on the rights of property owners.

[00:23:14]Third, third, we wish to have a parliamentary committee set up immediately to study the changes that might be necessary, political, regulatory, and constitutional changes in order to protect the property rights of Canadians nationwide.

[00:23:38]And finally, it calls on the prime minister to make clear his plan. He is the head of the government. That is the defendant in this court case. It is time for him as the head of the government while we have millions of British Columbombians worried about their losing their homes. It's time for him after 10 months to finally put out a plan to defend property rights. We want that plan, Mr. Carney, within 30 days. Thank you very much.

[00:24:09]All of this, everything I've just said is goes back to one central purpose, which is to restore the promise of this country. We want this again to be a country where hard work earns you a great life, where you can buy and own a home that stays yours as long as you have it, that you can live in a safe community, that you can afford food, and you can raise children in a beautiful place filled with opportunity and hope.

[00:24:33]That's the country that we want to restore. A country that is united under our flag where we have one law for all people. All of us devoted to our nation.

[00:24:43]That is our purpose. That is our plan.

[00:24:45]Let's keep fighting for it, my friends.

[00:24:46]Don't give up. Never give up.

[00:25:13]ladies and gentlemen. So, after that very inspiring speech, we're going to open up the floor for questions. Uh we've got a microphone there, I believe, somewhere, and another one here. Uh, so just line up be uh behind the mics and we'll just go back and forth one to the other. We're going to let uh PR answer all the tough questions and maybe Jamie and Billy and I can answer the easy ones.

[00:25:41]>> We're just going to do a quick reset. So you just hold there.

[00:26:02]I found this on the floor.

[00:27:43]Let's get started here. Ladies and gentlemen, you got this panel of very brilliant people here. We have Steven Curran, our candidate for North Vancouver North North Bank candidate for North Vancouver Kapalano. Got Jamie Schmail, a member of parliament from Hallebertton Cora Lakes and indigenous service. No, sorry. Um, shadow minister for crown and indigenous relations. Got Pierre Polyv, of course, who everybody knows. Uh, Billy Morren, member of Parliament for Edmonton Northwest and uh, uh, shadow minister for indigenous services and Chuck from Richmond, Marple. I got all the names right? Good.

[00:28:32]Okay. So, we'll alternate. We'll start here. People, please keep your look at the big long lineup. Please keep your questions very pointed, very short, very clear and move on. Let let the panelists answer the questions. So, sir, we'll start with you.

[00:28:49]>> Mr. Pier, thank you for speaking up for all the property owner.

[00:28:53]>> Thank you. Your pilot keep Alberta in Canada.

[00:28:59]>> And my question right now is who benefits the most in this poverty argument and who lost the most in this poverty argument.

[00:29:14]>> I give you the answer.

[00:29:16]>> Well, hard to see any winners so far. I think that everyone is losing right now.

[00:29:21]It's um basically I think that um you know our our indigenous people are suffering because of the indecision that the courts and the politicians have caused. Our property owners are worried that our our young people are going to find it harder to get jobs. So you're asking for winners. I'm not seeing any winners right now. The losers are pretty much everybody who owns a home and anybody who wants to have a job in the future is a loser right now. So the only way to make us winners is to to send the government back to court in the appeal, win the appeal, defend property rights so that we don't have to suffer with this indecision. Thank you.

[00:29:57]>> Perfect. And ladies and gentlemen, that was a perfect example of a good question, short and to the point over there.

[00:30:03]>> Mike Stevens from White Rock and thank you for doing this. My question is pretty simple. With the United Nations forcing drip on us, we are all First Nations now because none of us have the right of property. My question is, does any First Nations person have clear title and right of disposition to any land that is supposedly First Nations?

[00:30:28]>> Yeah. In some cases, yes, they have 99-year leases. In some cases, if the nation itself has a land code, they allow that type of thing to happen where you do have it's not outright ownership of, but they have the lease of that property, which is the closest thing to it based on the Indian Act in particular that that's holding those nations to those laws.

[00:30:50]>> But no personal property right >> other than the collective right. Sorry.

[00:30:55]>> Yeah, it it's mostly characterized, I would say, on reserve as collective rights. Um, so I have a mortgage on my reserve. I have to ask permission from the Minister of Indian Affairs to get that mortgage. I had to ask the former Minister, Mark Miller, to build my own house. So I wouldn't say it's it's true private property in that sense. It's it's more of a a long-term lease, quite frankly.

[00:31:15]>> Good. Thank you. Over there, >> Mr. Polyv, I just have a quick question about the AI data centers that our prime minister is building. 44 projects on the books apparently three of them in British Columbia.

[00:31:30]What would your stance be on AI data centers if you were prime minister?

[00:31:37]Well, you have to look at each one of them separately but um my view is that um we need data centers. Data centers are necessary to to process information.

[00:31:49]We are going to have an enormous advantage because of the extreme abundance of energy we have in Canada to have data centers that will create jobs for electricians and engineers and others. Um, and as long as they're held in they're put in places where they don't disrupt the lives of uh people in the area and they pay for their own way.

[00:32:10]I don't believe there should be any government subsidies for them. Carney has all these corporate handouts that he wants to give uh with your money to subsidize AI in some places to rate to replace your job uh using subsidies of your own money. I don't believe in subsidies. They should pave their own way, get private investment, pay for their energy. There should be no discounted electricity because then that would have to be paid for by the residential consumers.

[00:32:36]In fact, most of them, I think, should be able to generate their own energy.

[00:32:39]That's what's happening in the United States.

[00:32:42]They're they're using they're building power stations uh for powered with natural gas. There's even some of the big companies that are looking at building their own nuclear reactors to power their data centers without drawing on the electricity everyone else uses. Our goal is is to have a big free enterprise economy where there's lots of opportunity, but where there's no freebies for anyone. Big business wants to build big things, great, but do it with your own money. That's free market.

[00:33:12]>> Great. Thank you.

[00:33:14]Over to my right.

[00:33:16]>> Hi, my name is Blair. I just want to thank you for I got really excited about the building um treatment centers. I'm clean off of drugs for over 25 years.

[00:33:29]But thank you. But they took away the contact center. I don't know if you know the contact center years ago. And that's when I started seeing things going really bad.

[00:33:41]So I don't know what I can do, but I would like to do something to get involved in it. And how many treatment centers do you think need to be built?

[00:33:51]>> Well, we need at least 50,000 spaces, additional spaces across the country.

[00:33:56]And so what I'm going to do is cut back all the money for the drug consumption sites, for the unsafe supply. I'm going to defund all the activists and the public health corrupt public health bureaucrats and and we're going to put that into new treatment facilities. And by the way, I have a new funding model. This is how we're going to fund things like this. We are going to pay for results. So, we're going to have we're going to get releases from the people who come in who are addicted that they will agree to post treatment followup and the treatment center will be paid for how long they keep people a off drugs after they leave. In other words, the funding will be based on the result and then when they get that funding, they keep someone off drugs, they get a income flow from the federal government which will allow them to invite the next person to come in and have treatment.

[00:34:47]And we're going to use models that work.

[00:34:49]I was at a incredible place in Windsor, entirely funded by the private sector where they they they through donations.

[00:34:56]I met a young guy there. He came in on on the verge of death. He's turned his life around. Two years later, he now has a construction company and he only hires recovered drug addicts and they're all making money, paying their bills, raising their families.

[00:35:13]These are great stories. We're going to have great stories of redemption like that right across the country. Great stories of hope. Thank you very much.

[00:35:21]>> Good. Thank you. And thank you, man, for that great question. Over to my left.

[00:35:26]>> Um, hi Pier. Thank you uh for doing this. Pier, you talked about the private property rights. Uh, but what about the crown property in province of BC? Cuz that seems to be in the middle of all the agreements and treaties that you see and including the rights of the surf surface minerals and all that and that takes away from you know taxpayers. So what are your opinions on the crown property and would you also stop any involuntary transfer payments to the bands and all that so that you know the Canadians can have full you know access to their resources.

[00:36:00]>> So on access to resources I first of all I believe crown land should be should remain the property of the crown which means it's the property of all the the taxpayers who live in the jurisdiction in question. So that's the way that that should be. When it comes to to pro to resource projects, I do believe that there's a duty to consult, but that that duty does not need to take 10 years, 12 years, 7 years. We should be able to do that quickly. We want to find out if local communities are affected negatively by a project. Fine. Of course, that's what we would do for any project. But we have to get to six-month permitting. The only way we're going to build our country out of this terrible poverty that we're falling into is by building. And that means fast permits so that we can build pipelines, dig mines, harvest our forests, and build build and and so we can't go on and on and on with delays and consultations. We need fast permits and I think that should be six months the fastest permits anywhere in the OECD.

[00:37:04]>> Liam, who do we have over there?

[00:37:06]>> Mr. Polyra, you've shown with property rights that you're willing to use federal legal tools when Canadians feel their security is threatened. What federal action could you take now to protect Jewish Canadians and stop anti-semitism from escalating further?

[00:37:30]This is a great question. is a it is a phenomenal shame, a national shame, the way the Jewish people are being treated in Canada today. Um the way Jews have come here just like every other group to found families, build lives, launch businesses, contribute to our wonderful national fabric. But ever since October 22nd when Hamas mercilessly attacked the Jewish people, it has spawned hatred and ra massive um riots on our streets. You know, there have always been wars in the Middle East for as long as I can remember. They never used to spill onto our streets in Canada. That was the difference. People came to Canada to get away from that stuff. You know, the Protestants and Catholics fought in Europe and on the in the British Isles for years and then they came to Canada and they got along.

[00:38:23]That's what was great about Canada. But now the liberals have divided us into different groups. This woke ideology that defines people by their ethnicity, their religious group, their gender, their subgender. That's what has turned people against each other.

[00:38:42]and and we have to put an end to that and we need to send the clear message that if somebody comes to this country, leave the problems behind. We don't want those problems on our street. This is Canada.

[00:38:55]And so what can we do? We need better vetting of immigration to make sure that no terrorists or criminals get into our country. We should have full criminal background checks in the country of origin to keep the criminals out. We have to kick the IRGC out of Canada. We got 700 IRGs. Do you think get them out?

[00:39:22]A global news report showed there are 700 IRGC officials in this country. I held a human rights gathering at a coffee shop in Vancouver a year and a half ago and all of a sudden out of nowhere there was a mob that came and started smashing and pounding on the windows violently. The the event had to be shut down. The police had to be called in. I just find it very curious that this kind of so-called spontaneous event happened.

[00:39:48]It's not spontaneous. It's the Iranian government through its IRGC operatives who are interfering in this country. We know it because our national security intelligence committee has told us that.

[00:39:59]CEUS has told us that we have to kick every single regime thug out of our country. Deport them all.

[00:40:21]>> Suki, who do we have over there?

[00:40:22]>> I got a book here called the last decade. Um we can debate on the optics of whether what happened now in Alberta are unconstitutional but over the last 12 years everything the liberal government did is it constitutional. The deeper problem is we know that the federal system have flaws in it and the law was interpreted by judicial supremacy. Um if we cannot respect the rule of law over judicial overreach under the British common law tradition and Judeo Christian morale moral foundation do we have a country in the next five years?

[00:41:01]Well, we do have a country. We have a great We have the best country in the world. But we have to get back to the core principles that made our country the best place to live anywhere on earth. And that means remembering that the government is servant, not master, restoring uh parliamentary uh supremacy.

[00:41:18]It means defending property rights, law and order. It means a government that devotes itself to protecting law-abiding citizens. The laws should not be designed to suppress and censor the lawful population. It should be designed to protect the lawful population against criminals. Um, and we have to get back to the to the notion that that that started 800 years ago with the Magna Carta. Very simple principle is behind all of those ancient words. And the principle is this that there need to be laws to restrain the power of government to protect the people from the government not to protect the government from the people.

[00:42:03]>> Liam over to you Mr. Paul and Mr. Thank you for taking my question. My name is Vincent Teng and I'm a resident of Richmond and I live just 5 minutes away from the Cowin land claim. My question is, as a youth member of the Conservative Party of Canada, how will the Conservative government in the next few years pull the levers to ensure that youth can build houses without government red tape or blocking?

[00:42:28]>> Thank you. That's a great question. And I I'll just say a few words, then I'll hand it over to Shakow, your member of Parliament, to add to that. Uh first of all, you have to understand that the number one cost in housing today is not land, labor, or lumber. It is government. The CD How did a study on housing in Vancouver and found that if you take you you you take the cost of building a home and you compare it to the cost of buying a home, there's a one a new home, there's a $1.3 million gap.

[00:43:00]And what explains that? That's the gatekeeper gap. It's the cost of getting a permit, doing the zoning, paying the development charges, hiring the lawyers, the consultants, and the lobbyists in order to get the government out of the way so you can start swinging hammers and pouring concrete. That is the number one cost. More money from a new home today, actually in Vancouver, twice as much money for a new home today goes to bureaucrats and office buildings than goes to the carpenters, electricians, and plumbers who actually build the homes. That's the problem. So, we want to take all federal tax off of home building. That includes the the GST, the industrial carbon tax. And we're going to require municipalities cut their development charges, speed up their permits, and free up the land as a condition of getting federal funds. If they don't do that, they will not be eligible for federal infrastructure funds. This is how we're going to get the government out of the way. Get hammers swinging. young people like that in homes with a bright future.

[00:44:06]>> Yes. I just want to add that uh it's a dream for every Canadians to own their own homes and bring up their families.

[00:44:13]But right now, this Liberal government is doing the opposite. They're putting hurdles and making it more and more difficult for people to have their own homes. And let us be very honest, government does not build homes, >> right? only people build homes and the government has to get out of the way to set these kinds of barriers that stop people from building homes and you know I think the uh liberal government right now is brag about oh look you know the the the uh cost of housing is uh going down and said this is not because of your policy it's because the market is not working so you have to get out of the way and let the market be active again So that you know we can have the affordability and we can own our home.

[00:45:02]So government does not build homes.

[00:45:04]People do.

[00:45:06]>> Good. Thank you. Si over to your side.

[00:45:09]>> Awesome.

[00:45:10]So private property doesn't just include housing. It also includes our personal belonging. and and today if someone ran up to me and try to steal my phone from me and I use force to defend myself and to reclaim what is mine, I'm going to be the one who gets in trouble with the law. So, what would you do if you were prime minister to change the laws on the books to prevent that from happening and to actually punish the offender instead of the victim?

[00:45:38]>> We are going to be passing a castle law, a self-defense law that allows you to protect yourself And that law will create a presumption that if someone enters your home illegally, that you have the right to use whatever force you deem necessary, including lethal force, in order to protect your family. And it is presumed that your actions are lawful in that event. We believe that you have the right to defend your home. And if anybody thinks it's it's cruel or unkind, you know, it's very simple. If you're if you don't want to be taken out by a homeowner in their living room, don't burglarize their home. It's very simple.

[00:46:39]Great. Okay. over to this side.

[00:46:42]>> Hi, uh my name is Daniel. Uh hello Mr. Balaf. Uh there's a lot of talk about Chinese EV coming to Canada. So what's your plan about bringing in affordable vehicles into Canada and what do you what's your point of view about the Chinese EVs?

[00:47:01]>> I think the Chinese EVs are a national security risk to Canada.

[00:47:05]>> I think Look, the the the China is a magnificent and brilliant civilization. There's no doubt about it.

[00:47:17]Incredibly hardworking people and uh you know, we needed to trade and talk with China and we need to do business with China, but we have to protect ourselves and we can't be naive in how we do it.

[00:47:29]The problem with EVs is that they are they are have the potential to be roving surveillance vehicles. That's just the reality. Um, we see that right now with the, by the way, the Liberal government's own bill C22. They're actually asking the tech companies to become a surveillance arm of the entire federal government. But it just shows the technological capability of these devices to spy on Canadians. And we cannot have any government, any foreign government with that kind of capability within our borders. Uh, my view is that we we need to have a tariff-free auto pack with the United States. Um, and that means uh getting we have put forward a plan that will re-industrialize Canada and allow both the US and Canada to produce the automobiles that we use in our respective countries while having free trade across our borders. Um, at the end of the day, we cannot follow Mark Carney's insane suggestion of replacing our biggest customer and closest neighbor with a strategic partnership for a quote new world order with the dictatorship in Beijing. That is not the right way to go.

[00:48:46]>> Good evening. My name IS BILLBOARD CHRIS.

[00:48:56]MY MY PARENTS HAD A LOT OF FORESIGHT when they named me because I travel around the world with a sign that says children cannot consent to puberty blockers and I have conversations with people because I consider this to be child abuse.

[00:49:09]Now, >> now I know you've spoken briefly about this before as the being a provincial issue and I'm thankful for people like Carrie Lynn Finley who sat down with me at my home a couple weeks ago because if elected leaders, she plans to ban this.

[00:49:28]I'm thankful to people like Carmen Bangu, one of our MLAs, who's in the room tonight, who also is enthusiastic about banning this.

[00:49:36]But we have a couple federal bills, namely C-16 and C4, which do not help.

[00:49:42]We have a lot of federal funding from the government which goes to organizations which push this idea in our schools that there is such a thing as a child being born in the wrong body.

[00:49:51]And children are being chemically castrated. They are being maimed. They are cutting off the breast of girls as young as 14 years old across Canada because of the of this idea, this abusive idea that they were born wrong.

[00:50:03]>> Sir, you're going to have to get to your question. is very important. But get to your question.

[00:50:06]>> Getting to it. This is important. This is the biggest child abuse scandal in the country. So my question is, what does the federal government plan to do about this? Because it's not just a provincial issue. The Conservative Party should be leading on this. It's a winning issue. And I would like to know as leader of Canada what you plan to do to stop this child abuse.

[00:50:32]The policy of the Conservative Party as adopted by our national convention in Quebec City three years ago is that there should be no irreversible sex changes for kids. Period. That is our policy. And and I support that policy. I support that policy. I I don't think when you're not old enough to get a tattoo, to go into a liquor store, to have a drink, to join the military, to vote, that you are equipped to make the decision to irreversibly change your body. Uh and uh and I think it's wrong.

[00:51:03]It shouldn't be happening, and it shouldn't be allowed. Period. Uh we also think that that uh that biological men have no place in female bathrooms, change rooms, sport. Period.

[00:51:24]and um our policy as a conservative government would reflect all of the things I just said. Thank you.

[00:51:29]>> Good. Thank you, Liam. Over to your side.

[00:51:33]>> Okay. Uh my name is Linda, Lady Linda McLaclin. I'm the founder of mj innocencebracelets.com and I've helped people all over the world. My short question is I'm also a pre pre-recruit for the RCMP and I don't intend to proceed with the training until you're the prime minister.

[00:52:00]>> I guess I guess the question part is are you going to be the prime minister?

[00:52:12]You You want me to be prime minister?

[00:52:14]What do you think?

[00:52:21]>> Yes.

[00:52:28]>> That's right. God bless. Love you, brother.

[00:52:33]>> All right. Who's next?

[00:52:34]>> Question. Thank you. Good answer. Uh, Suki, over to your side next.

[00:52:39]>> Hi, Pierre, my name is Shelley. Thank you so much for coming to Vancouver to talk about um property rights as I own a home as well in Kquilum. And so my question to you is earlier tonight your candidate said conservatives need to send a message that property rights matter in Canada, but many Canadians now feel that they must quietly accept another message that the land they were born on or own on property is unseated.

[00:53:03]Right? We speak about the land like we're on unseated land at at school where I work. Um and then we're at risk of professional or social punishment for speaking against it. What will your government do to protect Canadians from compelled ideological land acknowledgements? Thank you.

[00:53:28]I'm 100% against any form of compelled speech. So you will not have uh you will not face that compulsion. So and that's uh on land acknowledgement that's that's applies to everything else as well.

[00:53:40]Thank you.

[00:53:41]>> Good. Thank you William. Liam sorry over to your side >> Mr. P with your policy if you are the prime minister there will be no drugs and then there will be no homeless is so good is is people should vote for you as a prime minister. And back to the your today's questions right and your responsible tax spending after what more than 100 years this this ownership uh uh bills are come out that court want a settlement that means that taxpayer have to pay money that is totally unfair that you know this bill is totally wrong. I hope you can ask to totally repeal this bill.

[00:54:30]>> Sorry, I'm afraid I don't know which bill you're referring to, sir.

[00:54:33]>> Oh, the DEPA bill. We are talking about the property property bill.

[00:54:35]>> Oh, the dripper bill. Yeah. Look, we don't have DRIPA at a federal level. We have UNDRIP and the Conservatives voted against UNRIP at a federal level. That is our position.

[00:54:46]>> Yeah, >> DRIPA is DRIPA is a provincial legislation. I also oppose DRIPA, but I encourage you to elect a Conservative government in British Columbia that will get rid of DRIPA. Thank you.

[00:55:01]>> Over to this side.

[00:55:05]>> My name is Alex and I want to mention that I became conservative the moment Liberals took over the Parliament Hill.

[00:55:12]>> Since then, I'm conservative hardcore.

[00:55:15]So uh my question my question is um I was told to be brief.

[00:55:21]How do you explain the current political framing that place disproportionate blame on immigrants for systemic issues like borders for refugee schemers and what steps uh you take to ensure that public policy and political messaging reflect the more balanced evidence-based perspective that recognize the contribution of good immigrants rather than portraying them all as a burden?

[00:55:48]Yes, listen, that's a fair question and and let me be clear. We have been blessed over the generations with great immigrants who came here, followed laws, contributed, paid taxes, worked hard, launched businesses. My wife is a refugee from Venezuela. And and actually, even the people who have come in the last several years in excess numbers, they were just following the rules. Me, most cases, most cases, not all, but in most cases, we're just following the insane rules liberals set out. The Liberals said, "Fill out this form and you can come to Canada." And they were the it was the political government in Ottawa that caused this immigration crisis. Uh and uh the vast majority of people simply want to have a better life. But we're offering false hope if we bring in people in numbers that are that are larger than the number of homes, the amount of health care, and the number of jobs that we have in which to supply them. And we also need to ensure that we live up to our the highest standards in ensuring that people come to Canada, they don't have a criminal record, they do stand a chance of getting a job and supporting themselves and integrating into our way of life. That's how we look at it. Thank you.

[00:56:52]>> Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[00:56:54]Ladies and gentlemen, we're getting a lot of great questions. Still a big long lineup of people here. So, but Liam, I think our time is limited because uh we want the leader to be standing in that corner for photos. Uh and everybody here has the opportunity to line up right along here around to the flags in the corner for >> we just take we'll take uh what we say say five more questions.

[00:57:16]>> Yeah, five more questions from each side I think. Is that five from each side or >> five all together? Correct. Five.

[00:57:22]>> We got to move quick though guys.

[00:57:24]>> Gabber, >> keep them quick.

[00:57:25]>> Uh good evening Mr. Polyv. I'm Eugene.

[00:57:28]I'm from South Syria White Rock. Uh in your speech you talked briefly about constitutional amendments in order to make sure our property rights are actually respected by our government.

[00:57:39]But in the past historically every time a major major constitutional amendment has been proposed like at Meech Lake or Charlotte Town, it had been a huge failure and it had been political suicide for whichever party or person that supported it like it happened to PM Rooney. So my question to you is how are you and your party going to make sure that these constitutional amendments are actually going to succeed and it's not going to cause a political suicide if it fails?

[00:58:05]>> Well, we haven't decided yet whether or not that's the right way to go. That's why I've got the head of my task force here, very skilled real estate lawyer who practice in the private sector for a long time. We're going to check all of the political, regulatory, polit um legal, and constitutional options that can protect property. Uh and uh we we don't want to prejudge the outcome, but it's a fair point you raise. We don't want to get distracted with a big complicated process. We want to find the simplest, most efficient way to protect your property. Thank you.

[00:58:37]>> Over to this side. There's only uh five more. So, uh, the first five people and >> and you can come see me in the lineup and ask me a question personally if, uh, if you don't make it up here this time.

[00:58:48]>> Good. Keep them.

[00:58:49]>> Ready, set, go.

[00:58:53]>> Good evening, sir. Uh, I wanted to ask how, uh, Canada could stay in the forefront on Bitcoin adoption. uh would you consider uh building a strategic uh bitcoin reserve like the US?

[00:59:10]>> Well, I'm not proposing that. I believe in the free market. So, I think uh cryptographic assets should be treated like their traditional economy equivalents. So, if if if a blockchain asset behaves like a security, it should be regulated and taxed like a security. If it behaves like a foreign currency, regulated and and and taxed like a foreign currency.

[00:59:33]Um if it behaves like a bond, it should be regulated and bond like a bond. Um a commodity, a commodity, etc. And then you let the free market decide. People can decide whether or not they want to buy these assets or not. And and then the they can I believe that you should be free to decide to use those assets in the way that you like. People should be allowed to transact in them as they currently are. And at the end of the day, the market will decide. My job as prime minister is to protect the value of the Canadian dollar, which will be stronger and have more purchasing power under a conservative government. Thank you.

[01:00:11]>> Good afternoon, Mr. Beliv. My name is Adrian. I'm a Persian legal immigrant, and I want to thank you for your support, especially today in Persian protest like any day before. My question my question is regarding IRGC as we know members of IRGC walk freely in Canada.

[01:00:30]So what's your plan for removing them and will you see our king Raza Pal as you did three years ago to show more support. Thank you.

[01:00:39]>> Thank you. I would I'd be delighted to see him again and please give him my best if you're speaking to him. Um, we need to use we need to use the powers of the uh Canadian Border Services Agency and the RCMP to track down all of the 700 IRGC officials that are in our country. Those that are visitors should be immediately deported from our country and they should be rendered admissible.

[01:01:00]Anyone from coming from Iran who is a willing member and participant in the IRGC, not a conscript, should be prevented from arriving here in the first place. and we should seize all the assets of IRGC members here in Canada.

[01:01:14]They're hiding their money here and we should take it away. Next, >> only a couple of questions left on this side.

[01:01:23]>> Ready?

[01:01:23]>> Go ahead.

[01:01:24]>> Hi Peter, my name is Prattton and my question is about uh youth unemployment and uh and that has linked with immigration. So we currently have like 500,000 illegal immigrants like their permit expire and there are approximately 1.2 million whose temporary foreign permit will expire around this year, end of the year. So, how are we going to fix this issue? Because this is actually affecting because they're taking the jobs of the Canadians.

[01:01:51]>> Yes. When those permits expire, they're going to have to leave unfortunately.

[01:01:54]Um, they just have to leave.

[01:01:59]And we're also going to get rid of the temporary foreign worker program altogether. Those jobs should go to Canadian kids.

[01:02:08]Okay, Liam, last question on that side.

[01:02:11]>> Hello, my name is Caroline Jill. I'm from um Suri. I'm a student at Tammana Secondary. And as a staunch campaigner for Jesse Soda, if any of you are not aware of Jesse Soda, he's a brilliant decorated police officer, quite literally trained to conserve the safety of of his constituents. And I can affirm on that ground that a significant issue within Canada remains the broken lax criminal justice justice system. People are lamenting the epochs in which they could live their life in general without fear. So my question for you is whether you'd be able to delineate a plan to mitigate the increase in crime all across BC and just all across Canada in general um in a way that isn't draconian so to speak. And when I'm saying draconian, um, I'm referring to an instance, sorry, I'll try to keep it short, in which you proposed to invoke the notwithstanding clause in a very heinous, uh, uh, offense, which was the killing, the murder of six people, it was the Quebec City mosque shooting incident, um, but rather than saying that a life sentence that would have been accorded to that perpetrator, instead of saying that that sentence is reasonable, um, and that the killing of six people is draconian, the court the Supreme Court ruled that the sentence was draconian itself. So again, could you delineate a plan where you could sort of circumvent those criticisms?

[01:03:35]>> Yes, thank you for the question. We will we will we're going to toughen up the the justice system. We're going to have the biggest crackdown on crime in Canadian history. Three strikes throughout, three serious violent or other offenses, and the person will have at least 10 years in prison after which they will be required to prove they are safe before they can be released. And as for the case in question, what you're talking about is a Supreme Court ruling wherein a man killed execution style, killed six different people, but the court said that he should be able to serve all six life sentences of 25 years at the same time. So he got a bulk discount for mass murder. So he kills six people and he only gets one 25-year sentence. What I said is it should be six 25-year sentences and one after the other. And so the Supreme Court has said that that can't happen because it violates the constitutional right of this mass murderer. But my answer is I'm going to use the notwithstanding clause to overrule the Supreme Court which is the which is in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms because that ruling violates the charter rights of the victims of crime and it's time that we focused on the constitutional rights of victims not mass murderers. Thank you.

[01:04:53]>> Okay, so last last question over here and sorry to everybody else.

[01:04:59]>> Last one. Ready, aim, fire.

[01:05:01]>> Um so m Mr. Prime I'm just going to call him Mr. Prime Minister. H So I am um I am also from Iran and my cousin was murdered by the IRGC in in February while protecting his wife against the uh either them or one of the foreign militias they brought which is a similar issue to Canada. Uh my question is so we are talking about property rights today but those are corrupt generals and high-ranking soldiers which used the blood and stolen oil money to buy homes in North Vancouver and other north areas >> west van >> how even I know we want to protect but how can we kick them the heck out of this country and try them and take away their property and assets which belongs to I want I want to thank you very much for that question and I also want to express my sympathy for losing your relative back home. And it's not the only story that I've heard even early on during the campaign trail. I think the losses of your community are the losses of our community. And I said earlier today at the uh art gallery that when they come after you and your family, they come after me and my family. That's the deal here in Canada. To answer your question, I think Pier's already mentioned that we have government assets, CBSA and security services that we should be accessing to identify these individuals and get them out of Canada. But we also need to work with the community that's here because the conversations I have with many of you in the audience here tonight in the cafes in North Vancouver and West Vancouver, you know where they are. You know who they are. And so we need to work with you. We need to work with you. We need to listen to you have those conversations and deliver action.

[01:07:03]Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to have to wrap it up at that.

[01:07:07]Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to all the people who have questions. I'm sorry we can't get to all of them. Uh we want to get the leader over to the photo shoot there. And I see people are already lining up for it. Gentlemen, thank you very much. Good. All right.

[01:07:21]Thanks very much everyone. Keep the fight alive.