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The Great Debate: Sickly Smile ... You Should Have Done This ... You Never Apologized



Here's my synopsis of the televised election debate last light, between BC Liberal Christy Clark, the Green Party's Andrew Weaver, and John Horgan for the NDP. 

Lights -- Cameras -- Action.  And then basically the same thing played out over and over, through-out the 90 minutes.


Christy Clark

                                    Jobs

            sickly smile

                                                You'll add more taxes

                        Sickly smile

$1.00 a day


Andrew Weaver (alternate looking Left to Right -- alternately pointing Left to Right)

                You didn't do this ...

                                                                                                                You didn't do that ...

                                You should have done this ...

You should have done that ...


John Horgan (I'll keep smiling not matter what they through at me)

            "If you came to question period more often I could ask you about ..."

"You've never apologized to the kids that lost a generation of educational opportunity"

                        Housing ... "Why did you wait so long"

"We have put forward legislation 6 times to get big money out of politics"



Christy Clark

                                    Jobs

            sickly smile

                                                You'll add more taxes

                        Sickly smile

$1.00 a day


Andrew Weaver (alternate looking Left to Right -- alternately pointing Left to Right)

                You didn't do this ...

                                                                                                                You didn't do that ...

                                You should have done this ...

You should have done that ...


John Horgan (I'll keep smiling not matter what they through at me)

            "If you came to question period more often I could ask you about ..."

"You've never apologized to the kids that lost a generation of educational opportunity"

                        Housing ... "Why did you wait so long"

"We have put forward legislation 6 times to get big money out of politics"


Christy Clark

                                    Jobs

            sickly smile

                                                You'll add more taxes

                        Sickly smile

$1.00 a day


Andrew Weaver (alternate looking Left to Right -- alternately pointing Left to Right)

                You didn't do this ...

                                                                                                                You didn't do that ...

                                You should have done this ...

You should have done that ...


John Horgan (I'll keep smiling not matter what they through at me)

            "If you came to question period more often I could ask you about ..."

"You've never apologized to the kids that lost a generation of educational opportunity"

                        Housing ... "Why did you wait so long"

"We have put forward legislation 6 times to get big money out of politics"


We'll all have our own opinions of who won, however I believe John Horgan took this round.

Christy Clark looked unbelievable, after the first five minutes, because the same sickly smile never left her face.  It left her looking unbelievable.

Andrew Weaver looked like a grumpy father from the 50's as he alternately looked, pointed and chastised Christy Clark and John Horgan for 'not doing this' ... 'not doing that' ... over and over and over again.

John Horgan at times, looked like a deer in headlights but remained composed as he brought forward the NDP plan.  At the same time he held Christy Clark accountable for the BC Education system, what he called a lost generation of children, along with huge increases in housing prices.

There's less than two weeks to go -- anything could happen between here and then.

In Kamloops, I'm Alan Forseth
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  1. Sandy MacdougallApril 27, 2017 at 9:18 AM

    Once again Horgan came off as a big buffoon. He even managed to misspeak his line about corporate funded campaigns. Horgan showed no respect for either of his opponents.
    The Vancouver Island Horganites must be getting very worried about Weaver's growing attraction to voters in the once sold NDP fiefdom on the Island. If Weaver's Green Party cnadidates win a couple of those ridings, Horgan is very likely going to spend another four years where he rightfully belongs - in opposition.

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