John Rustad: It's Time to End David Eby's Nation-Building Blockade

John Rustad: It's time to end David Eby's nation-building blockade

I recently took a stroll from the B.C. Legislature to the site where the Sir John A. Macdonald statue used to reside in front of Victoria’s City Hall. I did so because I am increasingly contemplative about nation-building as it relates to the critical juncture in history, we, as Canadians, currently face. Now, it is without question that our first prime minister had many flaws, all of which have been well-documented in recent years. Yet, what ca…

Rustad reopens John A. Macdonald statue conversation in pipeline appeal

John Rustad, the leader of the B.C. Conservatives, has reopened a conversation of returning the John A. Macdonald statue outside of Victoria City Hall, in a video calling for support of a pipeline. Rustad shared a video to X (formerly Twitter) in which he references Macdonald’s vision of building a rail line across the country. “He had a vision for a country that could stand independent of the United States, that could stand for being able to ha…