The next British Columbia provincial election

Are there anymore televised debates between now and polling day?

jerrym wrote:

Aristotleded24 wrote:

Ken Burch wrote:

I wonder if there might be a swing back to the BC Conservatives in the last week of the race, given that a BC Lib defeat now appears to be a virtual certainty and that, therefore the "if you're a 'free enterpriser', you HAVE to vote BC Liberal to kick the socialist barbarians back outside the gates" argument seems to be a moot point?

That realization was a major reason why the Socred vote collapsed into third place in '91, after all.

I'm wondering if there's an opening for Conservatives to pick up right-wing support by capitalizing on how tarnished the Liberal brand is. I kind of expected (either now or over the long term) that the Conservative brand would take off for that reason. That would also help with association to the brand of the federal Conservatives, who have a large amount of support in BC.

The Conservatives are only running 14 candidates, which is just under the 15 being run by the Libertarian Party. There are also 5 Christian Heritage and 5 Communists running. The relatively low number of Conservatives means it will be hard for them to build support. 

What about over the longer term? Perhaps there is a Conservative MP who might be willing to take the plunge provincially?

Aristotleded24 wrote:

jerrym wrote:

Aristotleded24 wrote:

Ken Burch wrote:

I wonder if there might be a swing back to the BC Conservatives in the last week of the race, given that a BC Lib defeat now appears to be a virtual certainty and that, therefore the "if you're a 'free enterpriser', you HAVE to vote BC Liberal to kick the socialist barbarians back outside the gates" argument seems to be a moot point?

That realization was a major reason why the Socred vote collapsed into third place in '91, after all.

I'm wondering if there's an opening for Conservatives to pick up right-wing support by capitalizing on how tarnished the Liberal brand is. I kind of expected (either now or over the long term) that the Conservative brand would take off for that reason. That would also help with association to the brand of the federal Conservatives, who have a large amount of support in BC.

The Conservatives are only running 14 candidates, which is just under the 15 being run by the Libertarian Party. There are also 5 Christian Heritage and 5 Communists running. The relatively low number of Conservatives means it will be hard for them to build support. 

What about over the longer term? Perhaps there is a Conservative MP who might be willing to take the plunge provincially?

John Cummins tried that. It did not go well.

Ken Burch wrote:

He's pretty much done everything he could to address this, and nothing he said justifies denying the NDP a majority.

Sounds like Horgan misspoke on something that the mainstream is beginning to undertand, even if that understanding or expression of understanding is not perfect. That to me doesn't rise to the level of Wilkinson's comments, which reveal an elitism and tone-deafness to economic concerns of average people and callous disregard for issues of domestic violence.

Ken Burch wrote:

He's pretty much done everything he could to address this, and nothing he said justifies denying the NDP a majority.

Nothing he said on this issue justifies denying the NDP a majority. However, given the NDP's awful positions on Site C, facking/LNG, indigenous land rights, and TXM (despite Horgan saying that the NDP still opposes the pipeline, his government has dropped any attempts to stop the project, without taking back the BC Liberals decision to not require the project to pass a provincial environmental assessment process), I'd prefer for the BC Green Party to win enough seats to keep the BC NDP to a minority, and for the BC NDP and BC Liberals to not win a majority of seats between them (so they can't ignore the BC Green Party on the environment).

It's not likely to happen, but I'd still prefer it. Though having said that, I still voted by mail for incumbent BC NDP MLA Raj Chouhan in my riding of Burnaby-Edmonds, since at the time I sent in my ballot (Oct 5) the Green Party candidate appeared to be nothing more than a name on the ballot (no photo on the BC Green Party website, no campaign infrastructure). Also looked like they might have worked as an insurance broker (based on my Google search), which doesn't exactly inspire confidence as to any progressive bonafides (couldn't be a hundred percent sure it was the same person).

Ken Burch wrote:

I entirely understand.  It's also and epic tragedy that the BC Ecosocialists shot themselves in the foot at the start of the campaign.  If I'd had my druthers, I'd have preferred to see THAT party end up with the balance of power in the legislature.

Totally. Though that was also far less likely to happen, even if the BC Ecosocialists had run candidates.

Ken Burch wrote:

I wonder if there might be a swing back to the BC Conservatives in the last week of the race, given that a BC Lib defeat now appears to be a virtual certainty and that, therefore the "if you're a 'free enterpriser', you HAVE to vote BC Liberal to kick the socialist barbarians back outside the gates" argument seems to be a moot point?

That realization was a major reason why the Socred vote collapsed into third place in '91, after all.

The voters in '91 voted for a party running as a left liberal alternative to the demonized NDP. The right wing neo-cons stayed with the Socreds. The NDP actually decreased in that election because some of their voters voted BC Liberal before it was controlled by Howe Street. The NDP will never let that happen now, they are firmly a left liberal party and they likely will pick up the federal Liberal wing of the BC Liberal party.

How sweet it is going to be!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_British_Columbia_general_election

Article in The Tyee by Kelly Tatham, Green Party candidate in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant.

The Homelessness Crisis Is Not ‘Complicated’

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We keep talking about the symptoms of homelessness as if it were the sickness. We keep talking about the expressions of the problem instead of the root. It’s true the symptoms are complicated, but the root of the problem is not complicated. It’s simple: colonialism.

Homelessness is a characteristic of a society where land has been commodified and privatized to the point of mass exclusion. When settlers arrived here, they claimed land as their own, drew up documents and boundaries, and implemented a legal system and police force to regulate and enforce the boundaries they created.

Then came the profit motive. Not only did settlers steal what didn’t belong to them, they charged access for it. This colonial economic system of capitalism separated housing from being a “basic human right” to something you must “earn.” This is how white settlers created the neoliberal-colonialist model that prioritizes accumulation of capital — and it continues today.

What will solve the problem is having the conversation on what it looks like to give “land back” and then following through with it. What will solve the problem will be removing the profit incentive from human rights like housing, and abolishing laws that punish individuals for simply trying to survive in a system that has oppressed, degraded and marginalized them. What will solve the problem is shifting from an economy that drives wealth inequality to one that facilitates individual and community growth.

Another Ottawa failure

Horgan promises to double funding for revitalization of B.C.'s wild salmon stocks

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/horgan-promises-to-doubl...

Where's the CBC's "A devastating poll for the Liberals, a bitter pill for Wilkinson to swallow" headline, eh! Just askin'

B.C. Conservative leader says B.C. Liberal leak of WorkSafeBC report shows party is worried

The B.C. Liberal Party called on B.C. Conservative Leader Trevor Bolin to answer for how he, as a business owner, handled a case of sexual harassment among his employees in 2018.

https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/news/b-c-conservative-leader-says-b-c-l...

Oh my goodness - what a trainwreck!

The Woes of Andrew Wilkinson

People describe him as smart, educated and capable. But the BC Liberal leader has struggled in the campaign and faces growing internal criticism.

The Tyee made repeated requests for an interview with BC Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson starting in the first week of the campaign, but he has been unavailable. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.

The first impression that BC Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson made on Sam Klein-Laufer was so strong that it still stings seven years later.

“I just despise Andrew Wilkinson,” said Klein-Laufer, now 24 and a student at the University of British Columbia. “He was rude, he was elitist, just absolutely awful.”

In 2013 Wilkinson was a new candidate running for election in Vancouver-Quilchena, a wealthy constituency and BC Liberal stronghold. Klein-Laufer was a Grade 11 student moderating a debate that he and other students had organized for the candidates at Magee Secondary School. 

On the topic of housing affordability Wilkinson offered no solutions, instead advising students they better become doctors and lawyers, Klein-Laufer recalled, a position that came off as unhelpful and elitist. When there were technical issues with the sound system, he said, Wilkinson became angry and accused the students of censoring him.

“All in all, he talked down to the audience,” said Klein-Laufer, who pays attention to politics but isn’t involved in any partisan way. “He just kind of had this air of ‘I’m better than you.’ For someone who’s got two graduate degrees, it’s amazing some of the things that come out of his mouth.”

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/10/19/Andrew-Wilkinson-Woes/

I like Bill Tieleman, but democracy is very important to me, so there is one issue that I don't agree with him on, and that is PR.

A Word to Progressives Who Want to Punish the NDP

Mad they called an election or furthered Site C? Please don’t act impulsively.

Bill Tieleman Today | TheTyee.ca

Bill Tieleman is a former NDP strategist whose government relations and political consulting clients include unions and businesses in the resource, health, tourism and public sector. He was a columnist for The Tyee. Email Bill,tweet @BillTieleman or visit his blog.

The prize, up for grabs: ‘All parties engaged in electoral politics do so in order to win power and implement their policies. That includes seeking a mandate from voters in a general election.’ Photo: Wikimedia.

“Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.” — Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 

As the provincial election battles rages, some progressive voters want to punish the BC New Democrats and Premier John Horgan for calling an election — one they can actually win to form a four-year majority social democratic government. 

Other progressives are thinking about denying the BC NDP their support because of Site C. 

Perhaps some feel that the New Democrats are going to win anyway, so they can cast a protest vote or just not vote at all to express their displeasure. 

I am here to argue that would be a mistake. Have they forgotten what it was like for progressives to be out of power in the province for 16 long, depressing years?

Despite polling showing the BC NDP with a double-digit lead, we’ve seen big advantages turn into defeats before, here in 2013 most notably. Many races this election are in ridings where the margin of victory last time was a few hundred votes or even less. Province wide polling doesn’t show riding-by-riding races, and its seats that count most. (The BC Liberals won more votes but fewer seats in the 1996 election that delivered an NDP government.) 

It’s my strong belief that in this critical election, some progressive voters are acting impulsively in a misguided effort to penalize the BC NDP government while ignoring the enormous trouble they risk by helping elect a BC Liberal government under leader Andrew Wilkinson.

Of course, as a lifelong New Democrat who runs a consulting firm assisting unions, businesses and other organizations with strategy, communications and government relations, some readers will doubtless disregard any and everything I say here as either self-interested, partisan or unprincipled — so be it.

But I’m proud of my progressive credentials — as a former communications director to an NDP premier and a BC Federation of Labour president, a long-time political columnist and commentator here at The Tyee and elsewhere, and as a campaign strategist. 

I well recall the BC Liberal record of slashing and burning public services after then premier Gordon Campbell’s disastrous 25 per cent income tax cut in 2001 blew a gaping hole in the budget. 

That’s especially important in this election where Wilkinson, a party president and then deputy minister under Campbell and a cabinet minister under ex-premier Christy Clark, is promising a Provincial Sales Tax cut of almost $11 billion over two years alone that makes the previous BC Liberals look like cheap pikers.

How can anyone forget that under the BC Liberals there were: 

• no disability benefits increases for an entire decade;
• a frozen minimum wage for the province’s poorest workers;
• mass layoffs in the public service;
• a war against teachers;
• the ripping up of contracts for hospital workers and nurses and the privatization of health-care jobs;
• the degradation of employment standards for non-union workers;
• wholesale employer-dictated changes to the Labour Code for union workers;
• an unfair Harmonized Sales Tax was imposed to transfer $2 billion in taxes from big businesses to consumers.

Or that his successor Premier Christy Clark presided over: 

• wiping out the dream of home ownership for hundreds of thousands of British Columbians as her financial backers in the real estate development sector made windfall profits through 30 per cent plus annual increases in prices due to foreign and other speculation;
• money laundering that reached record levels;
• massive corporate funding of the BC Liberals that had the New York Times describe our province as the “wild west” of political financing.

The list of political malfeasance could and indeed did fill volumes. 

And now some voters are willing to risk all that and more just to whack the BC NDP? That’s simply self-destructive behaviour! 

Let’s deal with some objections by progressive voters to the BC NDP, starting with Horgan’s early election call. 

About the CASA agreement

The complaints are generally either that it should not have been called during the COVID-19 pandemic; that it should have proceeded at the fixed election date in October 2021; and/or that it violated the Confidence and Supply Agreement with the BC Greens.

Already more than 640,000 British Columbians have voted by mail this election, an option proven secure as well as safely convenient. 

But even voting in person — as New Brunswick just showed in its election — can be done completely safely by following standard COVID-19 protocols. Advance poll or election day balloting will likely be safer than a regular trip to the supermarket. 

Second, it unfortunately appears that COVID-19 will still be among us a year from now, when the election was scheduled to happen. 

Third, with a minority government, an election has always been possible since the BC NDP were sworn in — any defeat in a confidence vote in the legislature would have sent British Columbians to the polls in short order.

Fourth, fixed election dates in B.C. and Canada are a relatively new phenomenon imported from the U.S. Our parliamentary system has always given ultimate authority in calling elections to our legislators, with the approval of the lieutenant-governor — which was given for this election.

Fifth, and perhaps most cited by critics, is that the election call breaks the CASA agreement. CASA does state that it will continue for four years or “until the next scheduled election” — but it also says that to “promote stability, the government must be able to negotiate with the three BC Green MLAs as a single, recognized caucus.”

That part went out the door with the rancorous departure of former leader Andrew Weaver, who quit the party altogether to sit as an independent MLA. Weaver now endorses Horgan for another term as premier. So much for CASA. 

It’s understandable that the BC Greens — who were surprised by the election call despite several months of public and media speculation — are very unhappy. They were unable to field a complete slate of candidates. 

But let’s not pretend that the BC NDP and BC Greens were ever going to run a unity slate in a 2021 election or not fight tooth and nail for seats. In the legislature, the Greens did not support the BC NDP renter credit promise, labour code changes to allow more workers to join unions or $10 a day childcare plans. Several times they threatened to defeat the government.

Still, it’s clear that almost all of the CASA agreement’s goals the BC NDP and BC Greens agreed upon have already been met, including: 

• election financing reform;
• stricter lobbying regulations;
• holding an electoral systems referendum;
• passing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
• providing funding for improved transit in Metro Vancouver;
• increasing the minimum wage substantially;
• attempting to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline;
• supplying the BC Green MLAs with more funding and resources.

Those still objecting also don’t realize that all parties engaged in electoral politics do so in order to win power and implement their policies — their ideological goals. To achieve that success it’s necessary to literally be political — and that includes seeking a mandate from voters in a general election.

Probably not since the Second World War has seeking a mandate from voters been more important than now. It’s absolutely necessary to chart the course through the remainder of the COVID-19 crisis — from health care to economic recovery to public services — to ensure B.C. comes out of this terrible disease as well as possible.

And given that most mandates run for four years and this government has reached the three-and-a-half year mark, it’s more than reasonable to call an election.

But what about the damn dam?

Next, the Site C dam project.

The BC NDP government faced, as I’ve written, a Sophie’s Choicesituation — the Christy Clark BC Liberal government had rushed into spending more than $2 billion in site preparation and construction on Site C by the time Horgan took office. The BC NDP had always said the project should not have been started and called for the project to be independently reviewed before proceeding — but the BC Liberals refused. 

So as per the CASA agreement, the government referred the project to the independent BC Utilities Commission for an expedited review. And then it had to decide.

With $2 billion already spent and at least $2 billion estimated to return Site C to its previous condition — spending $4 billion for literally nothing — the government made the difficult call to proceed and reap the benefits of 1,100 megawatts of clean, green, renewable hydroelectric power for the future. And yes, hydroelectric power is still green despite what some critics claim. Even the Leap Manifesto’s appendix paper on eliminating all fossil fuels by 2030 showed the world would need 900 hydroelectric dams producing 1,300 megawatts of power — more than Site C — in a renewable energy mix. 

B.C.’s building trades unions — who were all but shut out of the project by the BC Liberals — urged the NDP government to continue with Site C and welcomed its decision. (And I worked with them as advisor and lobbyist.) Many energy experts saw merits to Site C.

Some will argue that Site C is so fraught with geotechnical problems it will never be completed. But that position ignores BC Hydro’s long and successful history of dam building, even in challenging circumstances.

And even at a higher than anticipated cost, Site C will produce electricityto meet growing provincial demand for over 100 years. 

Those who have fought Site C for years will never be convinced — and I respect their opinion.

We Asked Smart People If the NDP Should Call an Election

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At the moment, though, the question is: What would critics do? Defeat the BC NDP so the BC Liberals could finish Site C? Vote BC Green despite that party’s MLAs accepting Site C continuing as part of their deal with the BC NDP — and with zero chance of leader Sonia Furstenau becoming premier? 

Could any party survive voter anger at wasting upwards of $6 billion to turn the site back to its previous state? Not a chance.

Beyond Site C, there are other important battles underway where the outcome is unknown — the fight for affordable housing for all, especially the homeless; dealing with the horrific opioid overdose crisis and the terrible waste of human lives resulting from drug addiction; the enormous challenge of transitioning away from fossil fuels to renewables without devastating B.C.’s economy or its significant natural resource sector; helping our hospitality, restaurant and tourism sectors recover from COVID-19; reconciliation with Indigenous peoples; continued improvement of health care and education; and much more.

That those who would risk the progress made so far — and the possibility of many other progressive changes for B.C. over the next four years — simply because an election was called early or they disagree on one issue — shows disregard for hundreds of thousands of people who suffered under the BC Liberals. 

Read more: Energy, BC Election 2020

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/10/19/A-Word-To-Progressives-Who-Want-ND...

How easy we forget that the BC NDP only had a minority government, and the Greens blocked progressive labour legislation.

Where They Stand: The Parties on Making Life Better for Workers

We asked experts about the NDP record on work life reform, what’s needed, and how the competing platforms compare.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/10/19/Where-They-Stand-Life-Better-For-Work...

Bill Tieleman wrote:

But what about the damn dam?

Next, the Site C dam project.

The BC NDP government faced, as I’ve written, a Sophie’s Choicesituation — the Christy Clark BC Liberal government had rushed into spending more than $2 billion in site preparation and construction on Site C by the time Horgan took office. The BC NDP had always said the project should not have been started and called for the project to be independently reviewed before proceeding — but the BC Liberals refused. 

So as per the CASA agreement, the government referred the project to the independent BC Utilities Commission for an expedited review. And then it had to decide.

With $2 billion already spent and at least $2 billion estimated to return Site C to its previous condition — spending $4 billion for literally nothing — the government made the difficult call to proceed and reap the benefits of 1,100 megawatts of clean, green, renewable hydroelectric power for the future. And yes, hydroelectric power is still green despite what some critics claim. Even the Leap Manifesto’s appendix paper on eliminating all fossil fuels by 2030 showed the world would need 900 hydroelectric dams producing 1,300 megawatts of power — more than Site C — in a renewable energy mix. 

B.C.’s building trades unions — who were all but shut out of the project by the BC Liberals — urged the NDP government to continue with Site C and welcomed its decision. (And I worked with them as advisor and lobbyist.) Many energy experts saw merits to Site C.

Some will argue that Site C is so fraught with geotechnical problems it will never be completed. But that position ignores BC Hydro’s long and successful history of dam building, even in challenging circumstances.

And even at a higher than anticipated cost, Site C will produce electricityto meet growing provincial demand for over 100 years. 

Those who have fought Site C for years will never be convinced — and I respect their opinion.

The opposition of the West Moberly first nation, whose traditional territory the Site C dam will flood, should have been the end of the discussion about Site C. In deciding to continue with Site C, John Horgan and the BC NDP have chosen to side with the racist settler-colonial regime against indigenous land rights -- as they have also done on fracking and LNG.

John Horgan and the BC NDP claim to support UNDRIP -- they passed into into law in the fall of 2019 -- but are unwilling to apply it when it actually counts.

B.C. youth are organizing for climate candidates this election — even if many can’t vote

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Harrison Johnston remembers standing in a little coffee shop last September, watching in awe as a massive crowd marched from Vancouver City Hall to the Central Library downtown.

Then a lead organizer with Sustainabiliteens, a youth-led climate movement in Metro Vancouver that coordinated the Sept. 27, 2019, climate strike, he said he had only expected up to 20,000 people. Instead, the protest became the largest in the city’s history, with over 100,000 people filling the streets.

“We didn’t need to be doing anything,” he said. “There was just so much power in this mass of people there.”

This fall, climate organizing is looking different for the Sustainabiliteens, who first came together in 2018 as part of the school-strike movement inspired by Greta Thunberg.

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely limited the size of climate rallies — like those ahead of the federal Speech from the Throne — that Sustainabiliteens have been able to hold with other youth-led climate groups. But with NDP leader John Horgan calling a snap election in B.C., organizers see a chance to pursue a more direct approach: get climate activists elected.

Climate justice champions

For many young organizers, trying to engage politicians about the need for bold climate action can be a discouraging exercise.

Johnston, who is running as a Green candidate in North Vancouver-Seymour, recalled feeling frustrated in the months following the climate strike. Despite the event’s historic turnout, he said he didn’t see it having a major impact on government actions, pointing to the province’s large fossil fuel subsidies and the police incursion on Wetʼsuwetʼen territory in support of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

“I really came to the decision over the year since then that I have no faith in the people who are currently in our government to be fighting for my future, the future of my generation and my children’s generation,” he said.

“And if I want something to change in the government, I should probably go try to do it.”

Sustainabiliteens organizers Rebecca Hamilton and Naia Lee agree, saying that the movement has now shifted its effort to getting “champions for climate justice” into office.

“We’ve really realized that we’re done with trying to convince politicians about the livelihood of our generation,” said Hamilton.

With many of their close to 200 organizers still under the voting age, Sustainabiliteens are instead signing up their members to volunteer for candidates who align with their goals, like Johnston. They are also using their platform to endorse and draw attention to candidates who are committed to climate justice actions like ending fossil fuel subsidies and actively pursuing social justice.

As of Oct. 18, Sustainabiliteens have publicly endorsed five candidates from the NDP and Green parties. But there are still a few endorsements pending, according to Hamilton.

“Then hopefully once they’ve been elected partially through the power of our volunteers and organizers, we’re going to spend the next four years holding them accountable as they work in the legislature,” Lee said.

‘Together, collectively, we have agency’

Campaigning during a pandemic has brought limitations and opportunities. According to Johnston, COVID-19 is disrupting many traditional staples of campaigning. He and his team haven’t been doing any door-knocking, which is challenging for a newcomer who is trying to get his name and message out in the riding.

But he also pointed out that COVID-19 is showcasing a way to mobilize people around the climate crisis, an issue that requires similarly urgent responses.

“It's definitely given us opportunities to choose a different direction,” Johnston said. “Now we really have an opportunity, as our economy is going to need massive stimulus. We really have an opportunity to be shifting the way our economy has been functioning to a greener, more just economy.”

Tesicca Truong, a Sustainabiliteens-endorsed NDP candidate for Vancouver-Langara, added that there are fewer excuses now for not pushing bold policies for the recovery process. She said responses to the numerous crises B.C. faces — including the climate crisis and COVID-19 — “need to centre those who have been disproportionately impacted and those who have been historically and continue to be marginalized,” such as Indigenous communities.

“A lot of us like just to dream again politically, to see that what we’ve been told is not possible is actually possible and possible within weeks’ time at the federal level and international level,” Truong said.

“Together, collectively, we have agency.”

Going all in

With less than a week until Election Day, it remains to be seen how successful Sustainabilities-endorsed candidates will be, particularly for Truong and Johnston, who are both running against B.C. Liberal incumbents who recently served as the Official Opposition.

And while the movement’s organizers remain hopeful, they are also already looking beyond the election.

According to Hamilton, Sustainabiliteens will be shifting away from climate strikes partly because of COVID-19 restrictions and partly to broaden their engagement with adult supporters and solidarity work with Indigenous sovereignty movements.

“Something we talk about a lot is that we need to bring climate into everything,” Lee added. “Often, I think the climate movement is a little bit of a silo.”

The movement is also entering schools and setting up clubs across Metro Vancouver to teach youth about climate justice and direct action skills, while facilitating a shift away from focusing only on individual actions such as recycling. Hamilton said they are currently developing a multi-week training program to give young people across the country the skills to organize their local communities.

Ultimately, organizers like Lee and Hamilton, who have deferred university to commit to climate organizing, are giving the movement their all — during and after the election.

“We all spent a lot of the last two years of high school mostly doing climate organizing and we all want to be able to go full in because it just feels so urgent, said Hamilton.

“Going to school is about preparing for a future, but we feel the biggest way to prepare for our future is to help stop climate change.”

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/10/20/Did-NDP-Fix-BC-Affordable-Housing-Cri...

NDP 45%

Libs 35%

Gns 16%

Angus Reid

Let's be clear that the Liberals initiated both Site C and the Kitimat LNG projects. Also let's be clear that NDP had a minority government and the Greens propped up the NDP knowing full well the NDP was proceeding with Site C and the LNG. Hypocrisy abounds within the Greens.

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