Lee-Ann Bates

I was called a “conspiracy theorist” in Parliament so I brought the receipts! Yesterday in the BC Legislature the government was asked why the word Provincial is being quietly scrubbed from our park signs. They called it a conspiracy theory and said they were just modernizing with a logo. The truth is in their own manuals. I did the digging and here is what they aren’t telling you. The official BC Writing Guide now labels the term British Columbians as exclusionary. Their new rule is to call yourselves people living in BC. Internal BC Parks documents describe our park system as part of a colonial history. By their logic Provincial is a colonial word that has to go. Go to the BC Parks website and search for the word Provincial. You will get zero results. They are erasing the word before your very eyes. I found the Renaming Checklist they are using to swap out park names. Removing Provincial from the sign is just step one. They are spending $16,000 per sign to remove the name of our province while hiking camping fees by up to $25 per night to pay for it. Don’t let them gaslight you. The theory is a fact and the receipts are right here. 🚩 Is this inclusion or an identity disappearance act? Let me know in the comments. 👇

Very pleased to introduce my colleagues on the Strabo Society board, BK Anderson, Nathan Giede, Kevan Hudson and @leeannfbates. More updates soon on our campaigns to protect wild ecosystems and end endocrine disruptor pollution.

The NDP spent $370,000 on luxury car leases for bureaucrats. Then redacted the makes and models when asked. Luxury cars for senior officials that already make six-figure salaries and work from home. At a time when they're cutting funding for children with autism and forcing British Columbians to tighten their belts, this government should lead by example and scrap these perks. #bcpoli

Trying to board a train in "Modern Canada". This is insane.

You should be very concerned about Bill C22. It’s straight out of 1984.

How to lose a trade negotiation Step 1: travel to minor, inconsequential markets for a year. Fail to reverse the decade of Liberal policies making Canada the second poorest US state after Mississippi. Step 2: play up a performative “middle power resistance” schtick and mis-cite Vaclev Havel - whose antagonism to political cynicism would hate this ‘elbows up’ embarrassment. Step 3: run out of time and strategic options while Mexico creates a bilateral alternative to CUSMA. In 1812, our generals weren’t playing with figurines their New York friends gave them and talking about previous battles to prepare the nation for an anticipated failure from their own lack of preparation and focus. Canada has a generational opportunity to create the largest and most consequential free trade zone with the largest economy in the world. This video is a national embarrassment.

Another race-based law in Canada, but this time it's public safety that is affected. Aboriginal applicants can bypass the mandatory safety course and test with just an elder’s recommendation – no certified training. It gets even better: children under 12 can get a firearms licence for “traditional hunting practices” based solely on a recommendation, with no course or standardized test required. Two-tier gun safety by ancestry is irresponsible, dangerous, and racist.

Today at industry committee, a former CSIS intelligence officer sounded the alarm on the risks of Chinese EVs. The Liberals neglect these warnings at Canada’s peril. Watch his testimony:

So, @AnaKasparian (Left-wing) and @NickJFuentes (Far-right) market themselves as opposites but then you see them side by side, saying THE EXACT SAME THING... You cannot unwatch this. 👀

His tweets 👇

What is even the point of Parliament? At Health Committee, we asked to see the PrescribeIT contracts, in which the Liberals blew $250 million on NOTHING.   But Mark Carney’s Chief Filibuster Officer spent 2 hours talking to prevent us from seeing it. I asked why at Question Period, but the Chief Filibuster Officer took the question and…. Filibustered. That’s why I went to ask again tonight in the House:

I honestly think we'll look back on this as one of the dirtiest periods of Canadian politics. And Carney's time as prime minister will be indelibly linked to it. #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics