John Rustad
@JohnRustad4BC • 25,231 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 Rustad500,069 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
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 Rustad80,733 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
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 Rustad136,769 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
NDP pollsters may see Trump as a good political enemy for Eby, but thousands upon thousands of BC jobs depend on US trade. I’m asking David Eby to stop playing politics by ramping up the unnecessary trade war with Trump. Instead, Eby should secure BC’s borders to stop the flow of drugs and illegal border crossers into the US. #bcpoli
John Rustad270,284 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Restore Sir John A. Macdonald’s dream. Build a made-in-BC pipeline. Unite Canada.
John Rustad104,489 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
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 Rustad60,935 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
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 Rustad85,674 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
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 Rustad41,839 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
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 Rustad115,218 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
David Eby’s plan to let foreigners cut in line for BC healthcare is wrong. If you aren’t living in BC & paying taxes here — we shouldn’t be paying for your healthcare. It's beyond irresponsible for Eby’s Minister to be musing about waiving MSP wait period for newcomers. #bcpoli
John Rustad79,377 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
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 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
The situation in British Columbia has reached a breaking point, and Question Period today laid it bare. I pressed Premier David Eby on the simple, unavoidable truth: under his government, major economic opportunities are slipping away, families are leaving in staggering numbers, and investors are looking south for stability they no longer find here. I pointed out what everyone can already see. Trade with the United States is rising, but our access to Asia is stagnating. Energy projects capable of delivering world-priced returns are being blocked. Seventy thousand people have left this province in the last year alone. And now Nutrien, one of the most significant resource players on the continent, has chosen to invest more than a billion dollars in Washington State rather than here in British Columbia. That decision didn’t happen by accident. Even Saskatchewan’s Premier has warned Eby about the dangerous rhetoric and divisive politics coming out of this government. Investors, premiers, and industry leaders across Canada are signaling the same thing: they don’t trust the direction British Columbia is heading. Yet instead of acknowledging any responsibility, Eby tried to dodge and deny. He disputed basic facts and insisted the province is in a period of “epic population growth,” a claim that would surprise the tens of thousands of British Columbians who’ve already left. And after admitting that Nutrien’s decision is “deeply disturbing,” he immediately shifted blame, claiming no one ever told him the project was in jeopardy. In my response, I made it clear that the conversations I’ve had with Saskatchewan tell a very different story. They’re deeply concerned about how impossible it has become to move major projects forward in this province. And Nutrien’s own stated reasons, congestion, bottlenecks, labour instability, reliability problems, and above all, uncertainty, point directly at this government’s policies. The Premier’s answer was to lecture the province on how to pronounce the company’s name and to repeat how many “major projects” he believes are on the books. But none of that changes the reality: when a global company wants to invest a billion dollars, they look for stable rules, predictable permitting, and governments that don’t rewrite the map every six months. They don’t find that in British Columbia anymore. What I made clear today is that this failure matters. It means lost jobs, lost investment, and lost confidence, consequences that British Columbians will bear long after this news cycle ends. The government had the tools to keep this opportunity in British Columbia. They used none of them. And until that changes, more of these opportunities will keep crossing the border. #cdnpoli #bcpoli
John Rustad31,684 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
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 Rustad58,734 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Today in QP the NDP finally said the quiet part out loud: they’ll cheer a transmission line but block every project it’s supposed to power. They killed Trans Mountain, bragged about it, drove up billions in costs and now they hide behind a tanker ban to do it all over again. You can’t call it “nation-building” if your only goal is to keep the nation from building anything. That’s billions in lost investment. Thousands of good-paying jobs gone before they even get started. You can’t grow an economy on wires alone. BC deserves a corridor, not this NDP roadblock. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
John Rustad28,951 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Almost two years ago, I ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party of BC with a simple slogan — “Fight for BC”. Now, I’m asking all British Columbians to join me to “Fight for BC”. As we weather economic uncertainty caused by US Government’s tariffs, it’s important to do everything we can to fight for hardworking, everyday British Columbians. Read my 10 point plan below:
John Rustad51,291 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr