Sheila Gunn-Reid’s B.C. Conservative AGM in Nanaimo revealed explosive growth—800 members and 600 delegates—after near-irrelevance two years ago, fueled by NDP backlash over tax policies, resource projects, and government overreach. Policy resolutions included SOGI curriculum opposition and women’s sports fairness, while election irregularities in Surrey Guilford (46 alleged violations) and CFIA’s ostrich culling (bypassing judicial review) highlighted state interference. A trans-identified father’s stabbing case sparked debates on mental health vs. political correctness, underscoring the party’s clash with progressive narratives as it positions itself to challenge B.C.’s status quo. [Automatically generated summary]
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The BC Conservatives just held their first annual general meeting post their very near election win.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
You know, there are exciting things happening in British Columbia if you are a conservative, and I think a lot of people might be.
A lot of people are very sick of the tax and spend and tax and spend and block resource projects, NDP government of David Eby.
They want something new and they are turning towards conservatism, smaller government, accountability, free speech, pro-family, and pro-jobs.
And with that comes the growth of the BC Conservative Party, a party that really didn't exist in any sort of tangible form just two years ago.
And yet, they've just held a meeting of their members to vote on their policies, the official policy platform of the party that they promised to advance if they ever become government.
Now, Drea Humphrey, our BC Bureau chief, was there for her first annual general meeting of any political party ever.
She was there as a journalist.
So she was looking at this through very new eyes.
What is the sense from the Conservative Party members?
Are they excited about where the party is growing?
Are they looking to solidify those pro-parent, pro-small government, pro-low tax policies?
Or is it a party that is going to be derailed by growing pains?
Because boy, are they ever growing fast?
So I thought I'd have Drea on the show to talk about the BC AGM, what sort of policies were advanced, what does that mean for conservatives in British Columbia and the other things that she's working on?
Yes, she's here to talk about the ostriches too.
Take a listen.
Joining me now is our BC Bureau Chief, our friend, intrepid reporter Drea Humphrey.
And I wanted to have Drea on the show for a couple of different reasons.
There are some very interesting things happening in politics in British Columbia.
They have a movement towards the right, towards smaller government and personal and fiscal responsibility there.
And it was also Drea's first annual general meeting of a political party.
And so I'm curious about what that experience was like for her.
And I want to talk about the issues that were brought forward at the BC Conservatives.
First, AGM post, very nearly forming government in British Columbia, which like even two years ago would have been just a Sheila Gunread pipe dream.
So, Dreha, thanks for coming on the show.
I want to ask you first, like, what were you expecting?
Did you have expectations?
Because you don't have any experience in this whatsoever.
That's right.
2020 was when I became more political for reasons I think most people know.
And this was my first AGM.
I tried to put my expectations aside because I didn't really have any.
I just went in there as a journalist and I spoke to many of the members, I would say well over 100, to get their feedback.
I asked everyone I could, had you been to an AGM before?
And if so, what did you think of this one?
One thing that stood out to me going into the AGM was in fact its location being in Nanaimo, which is an NDP stronghold.
So it was kind of like, I wonder why it's here.
But other than that, it was just nice to be the eyes and ears for people while I was there.
Yeah, you know, it is on the surface.
I think it's strange that it is in Nanaimo.
But at the same time, on the island, the BC Conservatives have really made some inroads over the past little bit.
Like we know the interior of BC is very Albertan in its voting habits, both federally and provincially.
But the island, it's a weird mix of people.
There are some conservatives there, but there are a lot of people who don't maybe know that they've quite been left behind by the left yet.
These are the, you know, the conventional hippies of yore.
They're skeptics of big pharma.
They don't like being told how to live their lives.
They want to be left alone by the government.
And during COVID, the left, the NDP and the Greens, they were really in lockstep with big pharma and government overreach.
And so those people, those are baby conservatives.
They just need to be spoken to the right way.
Absolutely.
There's also a sector of the left that has come over, you know, calling themselves refugees because they know what a woman is and they used to stand for women's rights and they don't like what's happening in that area too.
So you're right.
There's definitely some room to grow in that area.
And boy, did it grow.
That also stood out to me.
There was about approximately 800 members in attendance and I'm told 600 delegates voted around that number there.
So that is a huge difference from the previous AGM for the Conservative Party, which I'm told from everybody who I spoke to in attendance was around 150, 150 people.
So massive growth there, lots of energy.
And I don't think it's been a dull moment at all in BC politics for a couple of years now, ever since the Conservative Party, which was once totally underestimated, was going on their rise.
It continues to be sort of a spicy thing.
And so there was some spicy moments during the AGM as well that I could talk about here, but also I talk about in my recap video, which is coming up.
And I think it's important to note that the BC Conservatives AGM, it's happening where it did happen like within days of the BC budget being announced.
Yes.
And I think that's really important because they passed a resolution that says that the government, if the BC Conservatives formed government, that they would return to a balanced budget situation as soon as possible, which is definitely not what the BC NDP think.
They are just tax and spend and tax and spend and just taxing you more, but also using that as an excuse to spend more.
So that is a cultural sea change in BC, I think.
and how convenient they get to use the tariffs as an excuse for our record-breaking 10.6 deficit, which was just proposed by the NDP government.
Okay, so you just mentioned some of the spicy issues.
So tell me, tell me some of the spicy, if you want to talk about issues, debates, policy proposals, tell me about some of those, because I'm fresh out of the Alberta one just a few short months ago, and it was really around those things that are deep in the culture war.
We know what conservatives think about financial stuff, but do they stand for the appropriate definition of what a woman is?
Will they defend women in sports, kids at school from cultural indoctrination?
And in Alberta, it's always Alberta, firearms, right?
So it's a big thing too, which differentiates us from the people on the left.
Do we care about free speech and freedom of the press?
Tell me about the BC conservatives, because as you said, for a lot of people, this is the first time they're getting to know what a BC conservative is.
Yeah, well, absolutely.
Like I said, there was around 800 people.
And I don't want to be like the legacy media, which only talked about dissent, because that certainly wasn't the case.
The vast majority of people I spoke to were, in fact, happy with the AGM, happy with the way the party's going and excited to see where the future was going.
As far as the dissenters go, I think overall they maybe labeled themselves the grassroots, although you could hear it on both sides.
One of the concerns was just, you know, the fact that almost last minute it went from a two-day AGM to a one-day AGM.
People felt like, hey, we booked our stuff.
What's going on in here?
And how are we going to, you know, talk about all the issues at hand, the policy changes, the recommendations to change, amend the Constitution.
That was another big concern was people felt like those proposed amendments to the Constitution that they didn't even have enough time to go over and understand them.
So there was complaints about that.
There were people who were claiming that their riding associations had not been supported or in some ways they felt almost had been blocked where they say that they didn't get any delegates in their riding and they weren't quite sure why that happened.
And so, you know, they started coming up with their own reasons as to why that happens.
Now, I will tell you, I am investigating a lot of these claims and will have a follow-up report in addition to the report that's coming out with my recap.
One thing I notice is that on all sides, there is this, it seems like a mutual respect for John Rusted, whether or not they feel like the board needed to change or in particular, some did not like how John Rustad put forth a slate that he wanted to be voted for the board, for example.
And by the way, that's exactly what happened.
Everyone that he wanted is who got voted.
Some thought that was unfair.
But even the ones who were disgruntled at large, they seemed to really like John Rusted as a leader.
And I got to see a little bit of perhaps why that is in action at the AGM.
For example, the people who wanted to be a board, they had prepared two to three minute speeches and were supposed to go ahead.
But perhaps because it all got condensed last minute into that one day, they were told, no, you're not going to do your speeches.
And then they were told, okay, you can do your speeches in the other room and we'll announce so that people could leave the main room and go listen.
And they did announce that.
But, you know, I don't think a lot of people wanted to leave the main room.
Like it was a little weird.
And so I'm told that they, you know, they went to John and said, we're not happy about this.
And he intervened.
You know, he's not able to manage everything that's going on in AGM, but he did step in and say no, get them on the stage.
So that was something I heard people really happy that he listened to them.
And then everybody got to hear them, you know, put their speech forward.
Another thing is there was concerns, again, like I said, about the amount of time, how soon they want to do these amendments to the Constitution.
And one of them was the omnibus that would say that the board that does get in is sitting for a four-year term.
So some people had issues with that.
And John Russad took the stage and said, you know what, I've heard enough of you guys.
Like, we can't be doing this every year.
We certainly won't be able to do that, but I've heard you.
We're going to change that to two years instead of four.
And then there was lots of claps about that.
And then that passed.
So it did seem to, you know, people are trying to manage things and run things.
And it did seem like when it came to Mr. Russed himself, he was listening to the people and making some changes.
So that was really interesting to see as well.
As far as some of my personal favorites, considering what I cover, we did see former Chilliwack school trustee Heather Moss, who is now an MLA for Chilliwack North, put forth, let's get rid of SOGI completely from schools to solidify where they stand.
And so of course that passed with flying colors out there.
So when you ask about are they going to stand for parental rights, it looks like they're still continuing on that path.
The question about males in women's sports, we know that that party put forth a bill already proposing for safety and fairness in women's sports.
And it got shut down even before, you know, the first is it reading or what have you by the NDP.
But to put it in perspective about where they're going, they actually had safe and same-sex space advocate Amy Hamm do a speech.
And that was a great speech, a speech that, you know, talked about the horrible things that have been happening to British Columbia.
I've covered all of the ones that she mentioned.
Just one example is the little, I think she was eight-year-old, and there was a man with a wig and a face mask who started peeping under the stalls in Nanaimo, in that very city where the AGM was and looking under the stalls.
And of course, when mom goes to complain, she's told, no, it's his right to, or her, probably, her right to be there.
And if you don't stop, you know, making a scene, we're going to call the cops.
So that was one of the examples.
So Amy Hamm went through these horrific scenarios and tied them into British Columbia.
And at the end of that, she actually called out the CBC reporter in the room and said, shame on the CBC for their coverage.
And so that received a standing ovation.
So I think that puts into perspective where the party stands on that issue as well.
Well, and I think any party that is growing as fast as the BC Conservatives have, I mean, really, two years ago, they didn't really exist in any sort of respectable form.
And somehow they very nearly formed government.
And we'll talk about the issues around that in a second.
They're going to experience growing pains.
You've got a lot of new people into the party who this is their first time engaging in the political party process.
They may be voters.
They may be, you know, activists in their community, but to actually get involved in the machinery of politics.
Yeah.
Affidavit Challenges Elections00:07:20
There's a lot of rules and stuff happening in the background that as somebody on the outside looking in, you had no idea.
And I'm sure you experienced that firsthand.
You're probably like, God, there's a lot of, there's a lot of stuff going on here.
I should tell you too, Nanaimo is the place where I first met Ezra a very long time ago.
Very, very long ago.
A real time ago.
Yeah, it is.
Good things come out of Nanaimo.
Yeah, you know what?
And we were there protesting tyranny.
It was a long story.
One thing you will see at conservative political meetings is dissent and debate because we allow those things.
The thing about conservatives, it makes us hard to get marching all in the same direction is that we are individualists and free thinkers and we believe in free speech and the free and liberal exchange of ideas.
On the left, they're just like, okay, this is what we're going to vote on.
And everybody checks yes, and then they go on.
Exactly.
So it's one of those things that makes for maybe a messy meeting, but makes for a rigorous debate.
Now, I wanted to ask you for an update about what is going on with the problems surrounding one riding in British Columbia that really hung in the balance and made the NDP government.
Oh my goodness.
Never a dull day.
For those of you who don't know, I have set up a special campaign.
It's called BCElectionIntegrity.com.
And I have covered this and I've had many exclusive interviews with the former candidate for the Conservative Party for the Surrey Guilford riding.
His name is Hanvir Randhawa.
So he keeps us updated very closely on that site, bcelectionintegrity.com.
But basically, the Conservative Party of BC says that they are aware of at least 46 voting irregularities in that riding.
Now, you have to remember on the night of the election, Mr. Ranhawa believed he won that by just over 100 votes.
And then it was decided it's too close to the 100 marker.
So we're going to do a judicial count recount.
And after that, it was determined that he lost to NDP Gary Bagg by 22 votes.
And the craziest part about all that is out of these alleged 46 voting irregularities, 21 come from a single location.
It's a care home, a residential care home that takes care of anything from elderly people to people with mental health issues.
And I'm still unclear about addictions.
I've seen yes and no online, so I'm not sure.
But 21 votes came out of that by mail.
And the other crazy layer of that is that directly across the street, like literally across the street, is a school where these individuals, many, if not all, I'm told are mobile, could have just crossed the street to voted.
So they all voted by mail.
In Elections BC's own rules, you're not supposed to have, you know, that many mail ballots go to one residential location.
So there's complexities there.
Now, Mr. Hanve Ranhawa is a lawyer and he wants this taken seriously.
So he did formal complaints to the EBC and he actually applied for a petition for a judicial review or he put that in.
So he wants the courts to look at this properly.
But of course, he also wants and should all the citizens, the Elections BC to investigate what happened because even some of their own workers went to this home as well.
So they're saying, hold on.
Yeah, we're just going to let the courts figure it out.
So we're halting our investigation, which of course handicaps Mr. Ranhawa's case because he needs to know what happened too.
So that's the other layer there.
Now, the latest of this, and so I did snatch him aside to get an interview on that.
It just keeps getting crazier and crazier.
The NDP has been sort of ignoring it almost up until now.
But they now have an affidavit.
Mr. Ranhawa and the Conservatives have an affidavit from the Green Party candidate.
I think his name is Manji Sehoda.
Green Party giving the Conservative Party an affidavit.
So to me, I'm like, whoa, that sounds like pretty good evidence there.
But he said, you know what?
I went to that home and I didn't leave my pamphlets or anything because the worker told me that they do not vote there.
Like there's no point in you coming here, giving your spiel because nobody votes and explain that they're not able to vote kind of thing.
So how did 21 out of 25 beds then vote, which potentially is every client that they were caring for at the time?
How did they all vote?
And why are they telling the green candidates something else?
So I interviewed Mr. Runhow about that.
And then in contrast, now the NDP has come out and claimed they have their own affidavit.
And in that affidavit, they're saying it's from the son of one of the affidavits of the individual who's claiming that after they came forward and said I was coerced into voting for the NDP, they say that they were mistreated by the workers after doing that.
So that's another allegation.
So now the NDP has an affidavit from that person's son.
And so the NDP is claiming that this individual is schizophrenic.
We haven't named the individual the whole time.
And that the Conservative Party has essentially coerced these individuals into saying this and how dare they.
So, oh my gosh, talk about spicy politics.
It's crazy.
And it's so important this writing because, I mean, the fate of the election really sort of hangs in the balance.
It's so close.
Well, the NDP is a one-seat majority.
And so this is the writing attributed to the one seat because this all, we all got the outcome of it, like, I don't know, two, three weeks later, or whatever it was.
So yes, you're right.
It literally is the riding that holds the balance of whether it's a tie or a majority NDP government.
So do we know what happens next?
Well, what happens next is there is that continued pressure to have, one, an independent review, which you can take action at in just a matter of seconds at bcelectionintegrity.com through our email campaign.
Two, we wait to see what the courts decide.
Will they hear this matter?
I would hope that they would.
It seems pretty crucial.
I would be quite surprised if they say no, because there is evidence.
It's not like it's just made out of thin air.
And again, just continuing with that pressure, of course, the Conservative Party of BC is saying, hey, we need this looked into.
And it's quite shocking to me that Elections BC is just washing their hands of it right now.
Yeah, it seems odd considering it's their job to not just protect the integrity of elections, but also make sure that the public has confidence and that the elections are conducted fairly.
Before I let you go, because we're both very busy, people constantly email me about the ostriches.
Ostriches and Avian Flu Programs00:04:29
What about the ostriches?
What about the ostriches?
And I will let you know.
And it's no surprise to anybody who sits in on our staff calls that I am anti-ostrich, generally speaking, as a bird.
I do not care for them.
But that doesn't mean that they should be exterminated by the state.
Yeah.
I mean, I would maybe choke one, depending on the day.
But again, I would not want the state to do it.
Drea, tell us about the ostriches.
Well, if you, it's, it's a long and tangled story.
So I am going to tell you our URL if you want to like totally get all the history and even help to take action.
It's called savetheostriches.com.
But that is the 400 ostages out in Edgewood, BC, who the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is just hell-bent on murdering or killing off in the name of protecting the public from the avian flu.
Why is that so crazy?
Well, what's so crazy about it is that according to the farmers, these birds have, especially the ones that are alive, have immunity.
They apparently already went through the virus.
They didn't have the sniffles or nothing.
The younger ones months ago did get sick and some died.
And so apparently a PCR detected that two of the dead ones had it.
But now months and months and months have passed since the farmers have been resisting this, meaning the birds are even more immune than they were before.
And the key part of this, when you think of public health and how our public health officials have been pushing things and the state is that these birds have actually been part of a program between the US, Japan, and Canada to further vaccines for the avian flu.
Now, vaccines that are not using mRNA technology.
And remember that Moderna just got a huge, huge funding of $590 million for mRNA avian flu stuff.
So the scientist that's in charge of that is already working on that.
And so they're saying these birds are healthy and they're not for food consumption.
That's not what they're used for.
We're in the middle of nowhere.
And we've been isolating and they are furthering science.
They are so valuable.
And so the latest on that is that these farmers are fighting back, which I find in British Columbia, when I reach out to the farmers, they don't want to publicly fight.
They just kind of want to be quiet and just hope everything works out.
So I am very proud of these farmers for fighting back.
And they've had some wins in the sense that they did get the right to have a judicial review heard.
And then what happened?
Well, the CFIA tried to dodge that.
They tried to find a legal loophole to that.
And so what they said after the judge very clearly said, no, you're not killing these birds right now.
By the way, at the stroke of midnight, just before, I think it was February 1st, or yeah, February 1st, he said, no, we're going to do a judicial review.
So the CFIA came forward and basically said in the course, well, we understand you're saying that the farmers don't have to kill the birds, because that's what the order is.
But you didn't say somebody else couldn't kill.
So we're just going to hire someone else.
And the judge was like, no, it's clear.
But they did supposedly expedite the time that we're going to see the judicial review.
So the farmers and their legal team have less time to prepare for all of that.
And so they're really just hell-bent on trying to kill these birds because I think it sets a precedent if they can't.
Then you have these other farms going, hey, our flock's healthy too.
And so they don't want to do that.
Right.
I mean, the state must not have this power.
Even if you don't care about ostriches, and trust me, I don't.
The CFIA and the government is so bad that I'm on team ostrich right now.
Because even if you don't care about the animal in particular, and again, I want to reiterate, I don't like ostriches.
This is about property rights.
This is about the state just coming and just killing something, taking something of value from you for absolutely no good reason without any sort of recourse, which is absolutely outrageous.
And without testing.
They will not test the animals to see if they have immunity and to see if they're still sick.
Because that's the proof that would take away their reason for killing these animals.
Viewer Feedback Revealed00:07:56
Yeah.
Anyway.
Drea, once again, tell us the pro-ostrich campaign that you're running.
We can find out information about how to put pressure on the appropriate people, including our agriculture and farming minister and people involved in the CFIA that can make a difference here at save theostriches.com.
Well, Drea, thanks so much for taking the time out of your very, very busy day to jump on with me and let my viewers know what you're working on in British Columbia.
Know based on the reception that you had at that BC Conservative AGM, that people really love and appreciate the work that you're doing telling the other side of the story and sticking up for the little guy.
Before you, there was just an absolute vacuum in British Columbia.
And I think British Columbians, and I think all Canadians really appreciate you for that.
Thank you, Sheila.
I learned from the best.
Sheila got a reap.
Thanks, Dreo.
talk later.
Well, friends, we've come to the part of the show wherein I invite your viewer feedback.
If you have something to say about what we discussed on the show today, for better or for worse, I'm giving you my email address right now.
It's Sheila at rebelnews.com.
Put gun show letters in the subject line and let me know what you think.
Because without you, there's no Rebel News, right?
So I have to give you the opportunity to give me viewer feedback.
If you don't like what I'm doing, Rebel News no longer exists because we'll never take a penny from Justin Trudeau.
You know, the mainstream media, they don't care whether you like them or even watch them because they are falsely insulated from the market correction they so rightly deserve coming their way.
Now, I don't always take viewer feedback specifically just on the show, but I go looking for it on all the work that we do, not just my work, but all the work that we do at Rebel News.
I want to know what you think.
Now, today's viewer feedback doesn't come from the show, it comes from a video I did about a father in Grand Prairie who is trans-identified and who stabbed his daughter and severed her esophagus or at least damaged her esophagus.
She remains in hospital, and he is out on bail until his family suggested that perhaps he should not be out if he is so dangerous that he gave into the delusion telling him to stab his child.
And he continues to post on his social media accounts.
I went through his social media and his YouTube account and did a video that explained why if anybody was paying attention at all, they should have seen this coming.
Any subscribers to his YouTube account?
Anybody on his social, multiple social media accounts, including multiple Facebook accounts?
You know, Canadian news isn't allowed on Facebook, but this sort of stuff is.
And I'm not an expert, but when I know somebody says that they have voices inside of them and one is a male and one is a female, in the olden times, we would have considered that mental illness, but now that's just, I guess, non-binariness.
And the point of my video was that these children were just collateral damage in a society that does not or will not say the things it needs to say because they are so taken in,
that society is so taken in by political correctness and this left-wing agenda that your identity is, I guess, Transient.
And these kids paid the price for a society that refuses to call it like it is anymore.
So, Slowfinger 2 writes on YouTube: they refuse to call this a split personality leading to full-blown schizophrenia and had decades of treatment options.
One personality often grows into a violent character to blot out the one that feels inadequate.
Simple psych 101.
Must be that now all the psychologists are woke.
Ask Jordan Peterson about the woke psychologists who went after him for speaking out about tangible truth online.
Right?
This stuff used to be mental illness and everybody knew it.
And now we turn a blind eye to what could be very serious and violent mental illness for the sake of political correctness.
You know, we don't want to offend.
We don't want to be called transphobes.
When the mental illness sufferer is in a protected political class, we're just all told to shut up.
And maybe we'll learn something now that a little child was gravely injured.
Let's keep going.
Scuba Steve 7022 writes: And typical Canada, this unhinged individual is out on bail, sickening.
He critically injured a child, his child.
He should be behind bars.
This should be about the child fighting for her life, but he makes it all about himself.
He's the worst kind of narcissist.
Yeah.
In his social media posts, he actually says, like, oh, you know, like, I'm going through a lot post-stabbing the child.
And trust me, nobody is more upset about this than me.
Wild 1957 Flower says, Sheila, thanks for your bold, hold, no punches, fact-based coverage of this deeply disturbing and dark event.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
I pray for the full mental and physical recovery of his children.
He had to go fund me to pay for his bills.
You can see that this was a family clearly in crisis.
And so there were financial pressures on this family.
The older child, according to his social media posts about his efforts to fundraise, his older child went to Calgary to go to the only trans-friendly school there, indicating that the older child is also trans.
It's funny how this stuff runs in families, isn't it?
Ms. Rahi Chick says children are being sacrificed on the altar of false empathy.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
And I'm not naming the dad now because I believe there are publication bans in place, although my piece went up before the publication bans.
I believe the name is out there.
I'm just not just, I'm going to be careful about saying it.
But the story's out there and the name is out there.
Find it if you want.
I'm just not going to today.
Well, everybody, that's the show for today.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time and in the same place next week.