BC Conservative Candidate Warned of United Nations ‘Conspiracies’ to Take Control of Canada

A controversial BC Conservative candidate shared self-described “conspiracies” in an interview involving what he believes is a plot by the United Nations to control Canadians and, specifically, their municipal governments.

Surrey South candidate Brent Chapman, who is currently facing calls to be removed as a candidate amid several controversies, made the statements in an interview with Substack author Maryann Gebauer in mid-September.

“I have a good friend of mine in Ontario who’s a wonderful woman who investigates all this stuff and digs really deep,” Chapman says. “She talks about a lot of these contracts that the municipalities are signing that we have to look at and see what those are going to be.”

“The municipalities seem to be signing off with the UN,” Gebauer interjects.

“Yeah,” Chapman replies. “They definitely are.”

“There’s been heavy interference from the UN in Canada,” Gebauer adds.

“I’m going to tell you, we talk about the conspiracies,” Chapman says, explaining that “to conspire means for two to breathe as one, it just means it’s something you’re saying confidentially.”

“It doesn’t mean that it’s something that some aliens from Mars, and stuff like that.”

Neither Chapman nor the BC Conservatives responded to questions seeking additional information about Chapman’s comments.

Chapman would also not clarify if his “good friend” from Ontario was Maggie Hope Braun, a far-right activist and Freedom Convoy supporter who has been organizing groups across the country to attend local council meetings to speak out against a United Nations “takeover” of municipal governments in Canada.

Kurt Phillips, a board member with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network noted the United Nations has long been a “bogeyman” for far-right conspiracy theorists.

“Most of the underlying anxiety is related to the idea of sovereignty, independence, control of your own life and destiny,” Phillips told PressProgress. “The worry is that various institutions, whether it’s United Nations, WEF, World Health Organization or what have you, are trying to usurp that.”

“And when you combine that with conspiracies regarding vaccines or mandates, they are going to be viewed as part of this effort to take away sovereignty.”

“Combined with this is also the belief that the United Nations is the instrument by which the world population is going to be dropped to less than a billion people,” Phillips added. “That’s another thing you’ll hear often: The United Nations is anti-human and their goal is to limit the number of people and those who remain will be enslaved by the elite.”

Elsewhere in the same exchange, Gebauer and Chapman discuss a “pandemic treaty” involving the World Health Organization, something Gebauer calls “terrifying” because it supposedly gives the government the power to “confiscate your property.”

“This sounds like déjà vu, this sounds like 2020, and Bonnie Henry is telling everyone they need to stay home and be fearful and then get vaccinated.”

Chapman suggests the BC Conservatives will resist the United Nation’s attempt to impose a pandemic treaty on British Columbia: “There are probably 45, maybe 50, ‘Freedom People’ that are running for this party and I know that some of our media says, oh, ‘they’re wack jobs’,” Chapman states.

“They prosecuted us just about enough and now we’re going to speak,” Chapman adds. “We’re not going to live like that.”

“We’re not going to have these people, the UN is not going to have this, it’s not their playground and we’re not little automatons that they get to push around.”

“I can tell you that if you have a conservative government here in British Columbia and also one that, I’m pretty sure that in Ottawa, they’re not going to, you know, there’s only so far these people can push you.”

During the exchange, Chapman also credits a number of far-right and authoritarian leaders for resisting these supposed efforts by the United Nations.

“I think there’s going to be a lot of people in the world, I think Argentina has a leader whose not going to put that through, I believe that El Salvador’s leader will not put that through, you’ve got conservatives coming up in Slovakia, I think there’s people around the world who won’t go along with it — Viktor Orbán won’t go along with it.”

Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary, is a far-right authoritarian leader who has faced wide criticism for attacks on democratic institutions, human rights abuses and close ties with Russia.

Argentina’s President, Javier Milei, another far-right leader  who is likened to a South American Donald Trump, El Salvador’s President is a dictatorial strong man who purged the country’s Supreme Court, while Slovakia’s far-right is in a coalition with an anti-vaccine Prime Minister who has been ostracized by European leaders.

BC Conservative leader John Rustad will not remove Chapman as a candidate and says he will leave the question “up to the people in the ridings” to judge.

Phillips says “politicians in positions of power” who “know better” need to speak out and shut down these conspiracies before it’s too late to stop them.

“I think there’s an incredible degree of cowardice in political leaders who, while not embracing the ideology, they don’t push back on it and unfortunately, as a result, it allows people who do believe these ideas to get into the party. so the party itself becomes more and more extreme,” Phillips said.

“I think it’s an indictment on those political figures who could be using their platform to push back on this, to lower the temperature, to tell people ‘no, this is not right, this isn’t real’.”