Meet the PPC candidate for South Okanagan-West Kootenay

Castanet is conducting a Q&A with each candidate running to represent the South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding in the upcoming Sept. 20 Canadian federal election. Look for one each day this week. Each candidate was asked the same questions, with some additional personalized inquiries.

People's Party of Canada candidate Sean Taylor is hoping his core message of vaccination skepticism and opposition to vaccine passports will resonate with voters.

Q: Let’s start with the basic question: Why should you be chosen to represent this riding?

A: Well I think it comes down to what are the priorities of the voters. As the People's Party of Canada candidate, we're the only voice that is standing up against the vaccine passports, and the lockdowns that are occurring right now. So if that is congruent with the way that you feel, and you feel that this gross government overreach that we've been experiencing for the last 18 months has been ineffective, and we need a new approach, then I'm the only guy that's saying that. All the Liberals the Conservatives the NDP and the Greens, they're all down with the vaccine passport and the lockdowns, and we are not.

Q: So you would say that's your core issue, the vaccine passports and government overreach?

A: You know, I've been doing these forums, and I bring this issue up, no one wants to talk about it, they're all on the same page. I think if you're living in this country right now, that is the ballot box question. Do you believe that vaccine passports are going to be effective, and that these continual lockdowns are helping our nation, or not.

We're in the middle of a federal election, the governing Liberal Party is implementing a medical apartheid system as we speak during this election, and what is the official opposition saying, they're talking about old age pensions and banning puppy mills. Jagmeet Singh has gone around making dance videos, I don't even know what the Greens are doing. No one is talking about this. It was the first day of school here in British Columbia, and we have government workers coercing 12 year olds into getting an experimental gene therapy without parental consent. [*"Mature minor consent," more information here]

Q: So you are calling the vaccine "experimental gene therapy," are you anti-vaccination, and anti-vaccination passports?

A: I am fundamentally, but let's be clear. It is an experimental gene therapy. This is a trial that runs until 2023. I'm in frontline healthcare, I've been an emergency nurse for 16 years. And when you come in, say you've got acute appendicitis, you come into the hospital. The physician diagnosis is, okay, you've got a hot appendix, we need a surgical consult. The surgeon comes in, they sit down with you. All right, you've got a 1 per cent chance of dying of this, you've got a less than 1 per cent chance of dying to this, if we accidentally connect an artery you could bleed out, we'd have to give you blood, then you have these risks associated — they spend five minutes talking with you at the bedside outlining all the risks that are associated with the procedure that you're about to undergo, and then you sign a consent form.

That's what we call in the medical field, informed consent. We've informed you of all the risks associated with that. This isn't approved, this isn't emergency measures, even though, and I don't quite understand the legality of that because the state of emergency in this province was quietly finished on June 29, yet we're still deploying this this vaccine or this this gene therapy.

Q: Let's move on. What's the biggest issue locally, aside from vaccines which is obviously something that's on your mind, that has not been correctly addressed by the federal government, in your opinion.

A: We're in a war right now, and the focus of my entire campaign has been addressing the issues with the erosion of sovereignty, both personal national community sovereignty.

Q: As an MP, should you be elected and find yourself in the federal government, presumably in a minority roll based on current polls, how would you implement any sort of power there to implement change?

A: If we'd had this conversation a month ago or a month and a half ago, I would have said we're gonna see a Liberal majority, I would have bet money on that. And I don't have a hope in hell of winning this riding, right, I'm in for the fight. I look at the threats that Canada faces today and I'm all in for the fight.

Today, it looks like I've got a really good chance of winning this riding, I don't think we're gonna see a Liberal government, and what we what we might see in Ottawa coming here shortly, could be a very unstable minority government and PPC may hold the balance of power and have an have incredible leverage over the way that this country is run. It's the momentum shift. If we had another month runway, we could form government. I've been saying this for the last year and a half, I've been going around talking about these issues.

I've been saying for the last year and a half, that the PPC is one catalyzing event, or one news story, away from being able to form government.

Q: This summer, the interior has obviously been gravely impacted by wildfires, and climate change is on people's radar because we've had year after year of intense wildfire seasons. What should be better done to protect this area and its residents, and is climate change action part of your platform?

A: No.

Better forest management, right, we're dealing with decades of bad forest management. We've had a couple unseasonably warm winters, pine beetle outbreaks, we're going to do controlled burns, you have all these organizations that rushed to stop that, you can't do controlled burns anymore. The forest mismanagement that's going on. The incredible fuel loads.

I would really like to see more disclosure with weather modification, right, we've got all these treaties with the United States with the United Nations, where we have to disclose all the weather modifications that are going on in North America, with our partners at a governmental level, but I think that should be. I think the public should become more aware of this, right up until just recently that was considered considered conspiracy theory, but when you look at what they're doing to augment weather systems and spraying nano aluminum everywhere. [information on engineered nanoparticles here.]

We're the small government guys, Max's plan is radical decentralization, it requires strong provinces, and a lot of these decisions that you're talking about forest management, the health care stuff, like these are provincial issues, right, and we want to, you know, come up with a new template, and take power out of Ottawa and put it back into the provinces' hands.

I'm involved with the BC Conservative Party. This is a problem from the federal to the municipal level, in a country where you've got million dollar houses everywhere, and a local farmer can't build a house on his property for his own kids because of zoning.

Q: That actually segues into what I was going to ask about next which is the housing crisis in this riding. Housing is unaffordable for people of all income levels, and there is a lack of lack of rentals, and a lack of ability to get into the housing and land market as owners.

I'm hearing from you repeatedly that you're not a big fan of the federal government stepping in and you want strong provinces so what, if anything, do you think is the federal government's role in stepping in and helping with more housing?

A: I don't think it is [the federal government's role], I think they need to get the hell out of the way.

You look at these government interventions and they cause more troubles than they solve and create a lot of jobs for the government. It's just it's a self fulfilling prophecy, you build the bureaucracy to take care of it and it just, it feeds itself, and we need to get the the power back into the hands of the free market, and they will be able to solve these questions.

We live in the largest second largest country in the world, the coldest country in the world, and we've got this incredible burden of a carbon tax, taxing energy. Basically, it makes it so expensive to do anything with all the regulation and bureaucratic red tape, it costs an incredible amount of money before the first shovel hits the dirt. We need to get out of the way and let these things go. And, again, a multifactorial problem when we're bringing in over 350,000 new migrants every year. How can we not have a housing shortage. Especially with 40 per cent, or approximately 40 per cent of those immigrants going to Vancouver and Toronto, where we see the most acute housing shortage.

Q: So you would you would support a cease of immigration or a scaled down immigration into Canada?

A: Very much scaled down. We are proposing between 100,000 and 150,000.

What we've got is everyone incentivized, this is what I'm finding ,so on the campaign trail a couple days ago I blew out my truck and tried to get a new motor and everywhere I go, it's like, we don't, we're so backlogged, they can't even look at my truck until the end of October, because everyone's incentivized to stay at home and not work.

We need to get this country back to work, right, and the government answers throughout all of this has done nothing but hurt our economy, and look, I'm not gonna lie. We're not saving the day here, you want you want someone to tell you, everything's gonna be okay and we got the answers for everything, you can look at the other parties.

We're the realist party. We look at the mistakes that have been done over the last little while and I believe that te interests of Canadians would be best suited with Canada First patriots in the House of Commons.

Q: How do you plan to work with Indigenous communities in this riding and address their needs and concerns?

A: I had a little talk in Nakusp and this Native gentleman came up and we had a really good conversation, and this kid was awake, he knew exactly what was going on, and he sees the hardships, and he said two things to me that really kind of struck a chord. He said, "now that Canada's getting a taste of what we've been having for quite some time, I have no empathy for you. And I have no hope."

I've been working with Native communities since I was a young man, I used to do it as a paramedic and I did air ambulance and worked in the fly-in reserves, and this is a thing that's been near and dear to my heart.

I talk with the elders and they they brag about the farms that used to be up there and this reserve that I used to fly into all the time Fox Lake they had a horse breeding program that was second to none on the continent, and they had these thriving communities. And we look at the Great Society program brought about by Lyndon Johnson and a lot of things echoed up here by Pierre Elliot Trudeau, and we threw money at them, and we've destroyed these communities, and there's a narrative going around of hate and oppression and not at all these things.

I look at our Aboriginal communities. And don't get me wrong, they're not all a monolithic block right, there's some communities out there that are crushing right now and they're doing really good, but there's a lot that aren't. And I think we're dealing with the legacy of socialism, we've got this paternalistic Indian Act, which I think needs to be abolished, and come up with a new relationship going forward.

You're not allowed to own private property, you're on the government tit for absolutely everything they tell you how to live, this is socialism. It creates nothing but dependence, and despair. And I'm so proud to be a part of the only party that is coming on and saying you know what, I know this is a political landmine, but we need to we need to have a new relationship going forward, we need to get rid of the Indian Act that is paternalistic and it's corrosive.

We're sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Africa to fight climate change, when we can't even provide drinking water on our own reserves in this country? In a day and age where we've got the technology where you could suck water out of a sewer and turn it into Evian? The way that we have handled this is a stain on our nation. Okay, we need a new relationship moving forward. We're going to need these guys on our side. This country faces incredible adversity ahead. The acts that we've seen play out over the last couple of years, there's going to be consequences to this, and I got to tell you, I'm excited to have that conversation. We're being fed a load of goods that is not true. And I know that there's animosity, and racism exists, but I think when we start pulling together in the right direction, we can we can get through this. We live in a hell of a country, and we're putting our minds to it, there's nothing we can't do.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity