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364 – Fight The Oligarchs! Fund Our Future! (w/ Emily Lowan)

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Srsly Wrong

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4.9518 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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BC Green Party leader Emily Lowan and policy contributor Daniel Horen Greenford join us to discuss the failures of the current BC NDP government, what bold ecosocialist policy looks like, and how...

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back now to driving in your car talk radio, getting mad at things.

0:06.5

We've got a whole list of things to be mad at today, folks.

0:08.8

But first up, we got a very special guest.

0:11.0

This is a little bit of a kooky one.

0:13.0

We've got Emily Lohen, leader of the BC Green Party.

0:16.8

She's promising a whole raft of new spending here in BC.

0:20.1

She wants to be soft on crime, shut down our energy infrastructure, decriminalize drug use inside schools and kindergartens,

0:28.8

bring back the carbon tax at a higher rate, slow down our infrastructure, and tax your hardworking

0:34.9

revenue.

0:36.2

Emily, thank you for being here.

0:38.1

Quite the intro. Great to be here, Mike.

0:40.6

Now, we got a huge budget deficit under the far left wing BCNDP government with David Eby.

0:46.0

He is a maniac of wokenness. And you want to go even further.

0:50.1

Some kind of a utopian unicorn kind of rainbow thing.

0:54.9

My first question here, a lot of people are asking,

0:58.2

do you know what economics are and how are you going to pay for it?

1:01.5

Are you going to be going into these billionaires' homes,

1:03.9

stripping the stuff off the walls and selling it on the street corner?

1:07.4

No, so the reality is BC billionaires are not paying their fair share. We look back, you know,

1:14.3

Gordon Campbell in the early 2000s slashed tax rates primarily for the 1% and the largest corporations,

1:22.1

and the BC&DP just hasn't had the courage to reverse any of those policies. Our corporate tax rate is lower

1:29.1

than it was in 2005, for instance. So we've been limping along with this hollowed out tax system

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