British Columbia

This is strong leadership for serious times.

Let's do this, British Columbia!

The B.C. Conservatives have secured a majority government in that province the first time that party has won in almost a century.

What's more, they did it about a month after losing their leader and appointing an interim one, the now incoming premier, in fact.

Our front bench panel has a lot to talk about when it comes to David Eby's snap, rather, election gamble gone wrong and what implications it all has for both the federal government and opposition.

Yeah.

We're going to take the same questions to our front bench panel a little bit later on in the show.

Plus, we've got to talk about what's going on in B.C. You've got Brian Gallant, Lisa Raitt, Tom Mulcair, Rob Benzie, and Rob Buffam all coming up.

If they want it so badly, then they can pay for it.

I don't think British Columbians or Nova Scotians should be paying for Alto high-speed rail.

And in reality, most people around there don't even want it.

Go ask the people in Kitchener, in Toronto, in Montreal, etc.

It was about 10 minutes before the end.

Listen to what he said in terms of his biggest regret.

Well, I would say my biggest regret of the last 32 days is I was ahead of British Columbians where their understanding was about the legislature when I called the election.

So people were very surprised and frustrated by the election call.

I should have done a better job of letting them know how stalled out the legislature was, how frustrating it was to sit there and debate whether or not we should repeal the Human Rights Code instead of focusing on the issues that British Columbians care about because it was a...

I would have to check, but I really don't think they spent nearly as much time debating that specific issue as he is making it sound like they did.

But when he tells us that he was frustrated, I believe that.

that by the time he knew that it was likely over for him, he had nothing to lose and he was just telling us the truth.

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What happened in British Columbia with, over the weekend, a new premier?

We've got a province to build and I can't think of better people to build it with than you.

This is strong leadership for serious times.

Let's do this, British Columbia!

And what a story it was.

And I guess David Peterson is somewhere breathing a sigh of relief that he'll no longer be the reference point for being arrogant and going to the polls early.

This is obviously something I do with a very heavy heart, but it is time for new leadership within our party.

Oh, you need to go back.

All right, British Columbia.

That is the western state in the Canadian...

Ooh, a geography lesson, thank

Are you

just telling us Canada facts? I'm just

telling you things about British Columbia.

The next thing I'm going to tell you about it is that they have elected their first conservative government for the first time in 98 years.

All right.

British Columbia.

That is the western state in the Canadian...

Oh, a geography lesson.

Are you just

telling us Canada facts? I'm

just telling you things about British Columbia.

The next thing I'm going to tell you about it is that they have elected their first conservative government for the first time in 98 years.

We have to have a robust resource sector.

Did you know that it has been almost 100 years since British Columbia has had a conservative majority government? The last one was in 1928.

And finally, after all this time, they have woken up and they have completely rejected and evicted the progressive establishment.

And there are two things to this that are incredibly significant.

And that alone deserves its own moment of recognition to just really pay attention to what that signals for what's to come.

The

second one is the fact that David Eby, the former premier of British Columbia, gosh, that feels good to say, he used Donald Trump as his entire election campaign.

And people rejected it.

It came into effect in 1876 and remains the overarching legal document in Canada for First Nations peoples, band councils and reserve lands.

Months after the federal Liberal government signed a deal to keep the tanker ban on British Columbia's northwest coast in place, the federal Conservatives are renewing their push to end the moratorium.

As Catherine Garrett reports, the bill heads to its second reading in Parliament this week.

Conservative leader Pierre Poliev is one of several opposition MPs who signed a letter to Mark Carney saying the tanker ban effectively donates billions of dollars to the U.S. by forcing Canada to sell discounted oil profiting American refineries.