{"id":105400,"date":"2026-10-19T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=105400"},"modified":"2026-10-18T20:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:33:59","slug":"british-columbias-david-eby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/british-columbias-david-eby\/","title":{"rendered":"British Columbia’s David Eby"},"content":{"rendered":"

I barely pay attention to politics in my own province, so my knowledge of British Columbia politics is far less detailed. I do rather think of BC’s political class as maple-flavoured understudies to California politicians, which may not be fair … I’m not sure if it’s not fair to BC politicians or to the folks running California into the ground. At Without Diminishment<\/em>, Geoff Russ<\/a> looks at whether David Eby actually seems to love his adopted province or if he just values it for what it allows him to do:<\/p>\n

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David Eby, Premier of British Columbia
Photo from the Government of British Columbia via Without Diminishment<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

In the only televised debate of British Columbia’s provincial election, Premier David Eby tried to make it clear that he loves our province.<\/p>\n

Are we sure about that?<\/p>\n

We know there are people who come from afar to make a home here and go on to do incredible things for B.C. Names like Alberta-born Trevor Linden<\/a>, W.A.C. Bennett<\/a> from New Brunswick, and others are all enshrined in the pantheon of West Coast heroes.<\/p>\n

If Eby’s record is any indication, he loves what B.C. can do for him. He uses provincial taxes to fund his political experiments and the premier’s office as a pulpit, while milking the treasury to save a buck in his personal life.<\/p>\n

The best example of this was the way in which he took advantage<\/a> of the $10-a-day subsidised daycare program, using it to save money despite the fact that he and his wife earn well over half a million dollars per year.<\/p>\n

There was nothing illegal about Eby, a resident of B.C., putting his child in the daycare program. However, that scheme is clearly intended for struggling families and single parents, not a highly paid premier and his well-paid spouse. It was a gross, indecent decision, and there is no way around that.<\/p>\n

All of Eby’s alleged affection runs in one direction.<\/p>\n

Under his watch, the term “British Columbian<\/a>” has been replaced in official guides with “people living in B.C.” because the former is allegedly harmful to Indigenous peoples, refugees and other newcomers, like the premier himself. As for British Columbians, the premier seems determined to give away every kilometre of public land in the name of “reconciliation”.<\/p>\n

Who British Columbians are has been rendered a source of embarrassment that can only be handled with safety gloves, for they are “uninvited guests<\/a>” in the government’s cosmology. More broadly, his party’s politics have converted that suspect sentiment into a permanent division between Indigenous peoples and, in the government’s view, apologetic interlopers. This is what constitutes “reconciliation”, according to the one indispensable figure.<\/p>\n

That indispensable man arrived from Kitchener, Ontario, with a nose for creating trouble. At both the Pivot Legal Society and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, Eby introduced himself to his new neighbours by disrupting the Olympics and trying to undermine the local police.<\/p>\n

Like so many other Ontario-born transplants in the B.C. NDP, Eby decided that he, and he alone, knew what was best for British Columbians. Never mind that the Ontario NDP have only headed one disastrous government. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I barely pay attention to politics in my own province, so my knowledge of British Columbia politics is far less detailed. I do rather think of BC’s political class as maple-flavoured understudies to California politicians, which may not be fair … I’m not sure if it’s not fair to BC politicians or to the folks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,28,53],"tags":[491,188,438,798],"class_list":["post-105400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","tag-bc","tag-electionwatch","tag-firstnations","tag-ndp"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-rq0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105402,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105400\/revisions\/105402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}