John Rustad
@JohnRustad4BC • 25,217 subscribers
MLA for Nechako-Lakes - Led BC Conservatives to Official Opposition. Standing up for British Columbians
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We are proud to announce our BuildBC campaign - a common sense commitment to building all public projects at home in BC. The NDP sends your money overseas, that is not right. BuildBC will unleash our economy and deliver quality jobs for British Columbians. Let’s get building!
John Rustad500,070 views • 1 year ago
A few years ago, 122 firefighters sat on the roadside for 4–5 hours. They were waiting for a porta-potty with washing facilities because the crew was “too large.” Heavy equipment that could have put a guard around the fire sat idle until the ministry finished its assessment and wrote a strategy. Experienced logging crews already in the area were not allowed in for seven days. The fire took off and became massive. This is the process-first, cover-your-ass culture that now defines wildfire response in British Columbia. Follow the process and you’re protected. Move fast to put the fire out and you take the risk. I walked through these examples with Dan Knight. Full conversation:
John Rustad27,067 views • 28 days ago
I just got off the Mike Smyth show and I’m going to say it straight. The website and the smear mailer that went out in the final weeks of the 2024 election? Elections BC just confirmed it was BC United behind it and fined them $4,500. When it first appeared I figured it had to be the NDP. Never in a million years did I think it was coming from the leadership of BC United. But it was. This wasn’t some rogue operation. This was a straight-up failure of leadership at the top. Kevin Falcon was the leader. Caroline Elliott was the vice-president for some time and his sister-in-law. Both of them now say they knew nothing about it. Mark Werner, their campaign manager, says the same. Come on. I’ve run campaigns. You don’t spend that kind of money on a slick, professional hit job without the leader and the senior team knowing exactly what’s going on. Saying “I knew nothing” is simply not credible. We lost the chance to form government by just three seats, some ridings by 22 votes. This kind of thing matters. The BC Conservative Party has to be better than this. We need real leadership and real accountability, not excuses from people who let this happen on their watch. That’s what I told Mike. That’s what I believe. — John Rustad
John Rustad80,868 views • 5 months ago
Aboriginal title claims are expanding. Private property isn’t protected in the Constitution. And David Eby says it’s all a lie. This is real. It’s coming. And Conservatives are the only ones willing to stop it. #bcpoli #PropertyRights #Richmond #Kamloops #ConservativeBC #cdnpoli
John Rustad136,984 views • 10 months ago
Big week for Eby’s NDP: 1. New NDP car tax to make driving more expensive in BC 2. Caught cutting shady $300K deal for Eby’s sketchy DTES consultant friend 3. Huge pushback on Bill 14 & 15 power grab 4. NDP MLA says all non-First Nations BCers are “uninvited guests” to Canada
John Rustad85,736 views • 1 year ago
This BC NDP government is destroying our province. The economy is collapsing, people are fleeing to find jobs in other provinces, hospitals are closing ERs, and crime is rampant. This Premier has nothing to offer but ideology and unicorn farts. Only the Conservatives have a concrete vision for an economy that grows paycheques and delivered services that people rely on.
John Rustad60,956 views • 11 months ago
On the Mike Smyth show, I made it clear — I oppose Eby’s authoritarian changes to BC’s Land Act. If the NDP wants to take away your land rights, Eby should ask voters for a mandate and call an election on it. Conservatives will fight socialism, and get BC’s future back. #bcpoli
John Rustad115,267 views • 2 years ago
British Columbians need to hear the truth, because this NDP government has been doing everything it can to hide it. Right now, more than 1,000 acres in Port Coquitlam and Richmond are tied up in new Indigenous title claims, neighborhoods, parks, and even the old Riverview site. This is not speculation. This is happening, and it is only the beginning. The NDP has opened the door to province-wide uncertainty, and they’re pretending it’s all perfectly normal. This Premier lit the match and walked away. He refused to defend private property rights in court. He refused to tell homeowners what was unfolding behind closed doors. And after nine years of NDP secrecy, he has the nerve to act surprised that people are scared, confused, and losing trust. What exactly did he think would happen when he hid the truth from the public for nearly a decade? Let me be absolutely clear: reconciliation does not mean destroying certainty. It does not mean destabilizing entire communities. And it does not mean homeowners who have invested their life savings suddenly have to worry about their titles because the Premier chose secrecy over leadership. Private property rights are the foundation of this province. The NDP chose to abandon them. Families who have lived on their land for generations now face uncertainty because the Premier didn’t have the courage to stand up and defend them. We will. The BC Conservatives will fight tooth and nail to restore certainty, defend private property, and stop this government from pushing British Columbians into fear and chaos. David Eby has no plan to put out the fire he started, but we do. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
John Rustad42,099 views • 9 months ago
Just called out the NDP condo bailout on the Mike Smyth Show -Mike Smyth. This is what happens when government taxes and regulates an industry into crisis then rides in with a bailout. 35 to 45 percent of the cost of a new home in BC is government. Taxes, regulations, restrictions and endless delays drive up prices and make housing unaffordable. This NDP government mandated all this building while creating the very conditions that killed demand. Over 70,000 people have fled British Columbia because they cannot afford to live here, get married or raise a family. Jobs are leaving. Investment is drying up. Now with thousands of empty condos sitting unsold, Carney and Eby want taxpayers to bail out the developers at full price? Then they will have to subsidize them even more so people can actually live in them? Forestry workers, waitresses and young families who are already struggling to put food on the table never shared in the developers profits. But now they are supposed to subsidize their losses? That is absolute nonsense. This is business. Developers took the risk when times were good and made their money. If the units are too expensive, they need to lower the prices until British Columbians can afford them. Government should not be the backstop for private investment. That is not how our economy should work. It is a socialist approach that punishes working people while protecting insiders. We need to slash the taxes and cut the red tape that made this mess in the first place. Common sense over ideology. British Columbians deserve better.
John Rustad15,184 views • 2 months ago
BC’s Conservatives will NEVER support NDP Bill 7 that includes powers for new taxes, secretive collection of personal information & almost limitless emergency powers. We won’t back down from this. If Eby drops the writ tomorrow — we will proudly fight an election on this issue.
John Rustad58,737 views • 1 year ago
Bonnie Henry has lifted mandates for healthcare workers because Eby’s radical NDP is worried about the coming election. Meanwhile, patients here in Prince Rupert have died in hallways waiting for a doctor. It shouldn’t take an election to hire back healthcare workers. #bcpoli
John Rustad73,851 views • 2 years ago
What happened in Question Period today could not have been clearer. I asked the Premier and the Attorney General a straightforward question: why did they tell British Columbians, on August 11, again on October 29, and again inside the Legislature, that they were filing a stay of the Cowichan ruling, when the truth is that nothing has been filed at all? Four months have passed since that ruling came down, and there is still no stay application before the court. Not a single document. Not a single motion. Nothing. And yet the government keeps insisting they’re “working on it.” When I confronted the Attorney General with this in Question Period, she gave the same scripted line: they’re “hard at work,” they’re “meeting with landowners,” and they “announced” that a stay was coming. But announcing something isn’t the same as doing it. Homeowners don’t need an announcement. They need action. And the court registry shows that action is exactly what this government has refused to take. She even tried to argue there’s “no deadline” for filing a stay, as if that excuses months of inaction while mortgages are being denied, investments are collapsing, and Richmond residents are left in legal limbo. The government had six years to engage with the people whose land was on the line. They did nothing. They had four months since the ruling. They’ve still done nothing. They were warned again and again that the consequences would be severe. They still did nothing. And when I pressed them on why they didn’t involve homeowners six years ago, when the case first appeared, they had no answer. Because there is no answer. They abandoned private property owners until the ruling landed like a bomb, and now they want credit for “meeting with affected landowners” after the damage is already done. I asked them today why they told the public they were filing a stay when they weren’t. Why they said action was underway when the docket was empty. Why they reassured British Columbians while doing nothing behind the scenes. They couldn’t answer any of it. This government keeps pretending it fought to protect private property rights at trial. But if that were true, the judge would never have had to point out, explicitly, that neither the province nor the federal government argued that Crown grants extinguished title. Their claim that they “stood up for the Land Titles Act” simply does not match the court record. Homeowners deserve honesty. They deserve certainty. And they deserve a government that doesn’t say one thing in public and do the opposite in private. The Premier told British Columbians he was filing a stay. The Attorney General told British Columbians she was filing a stay. Question Period made it painfully obvious that neither of them ever did. And neither I nor the BC Conservatives are going to let them get away with it. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
John Rustad32,632 views • 9 months ago
British Columbians have lost hope for the future. People are leaving this province in droves. We’ve seen practically zero private sector job growth. You can’t survive here anymore, and we’re on a path to bankruptcy. That’s why I got involved with the Conservatives. British Columbians demanded change and we came so close last time. I made mistakes, but I own them. Now it’s time to finish the job. What’s next? Full unity behind Kerry-Lynne Findlay. We will form a Conservative government for the first time since 1927 and deliver responsible, small government that brings real hope and optimism back to British Columbia. I’m all in. Let’s get it over the line.
John Rustad13,908 views • 3 months ago