Let's be clear. You Dan Davies ... and your fellow bc LIBERALS ... do not have the right expect anyone's vote

Dan Davies, BC Liberal MLA, Peace River North

On Saturday February 24th Dan Davies, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Peace Rover North, decided to enlighten voters (especially those who support or voted BC Conservative in the last general election), with what he considered to be the correct (?) political knowledge regarding conservatives and liberals.  This was done on his Facebook page.  Here is the statement he posted:

I just wanted to put a post out regarding some information being shared by the BC Conservative Party.

As I have said many times before - our party is made up of people from the Center Right to the Right of the political spectrum; it is a coalition party. I have been a member of the CPC (Conservative Party of Canada) for many years, and was on the local Riding Association executive for a time.

The BC Liberal Party is about Free Enterprise, smaller government and is fiscally conservative. As you can read below*, the federal Conservative Party has close ties with provincial coalition parties, such as the Saskatchewan Party and the British Columbia Liberal Party (not associated with the federal Liberal Party of Canada). In fact the Saskatchewan Party comes from similar roots.

Here are the numbers from the 2 ridings we lost, due to the BC Conservative party splitting the vote us.

Comox:
Ronna-Rae Leonard - NDP - 10,886

Jim Benninger - BCLIB - 10,697

Ernie Sellentin - GRN - 5,351

Leah Catherine McCulloch - CON - 2,201

Maple Ridge/Mission:
Bob D'Eith - NDP - 10,988

Marc Dalton - BCLIB - 10,663

Peter Pak Chiu Tam - GRN - 3,467

Trevor Hamilton - CON - 934

Jeff Monds - LTN - 145

Here was my response to Mr. Davies

Just so there is no confusion Dan, let me begin by stating that I am a member of the BC Conservative Party. I am a BC Conservative because the bc LIBERAL Party is exactly that, Liberal.  It is not like the Yukon Party... or the Saskatchewan Party ... or Alberta's United Conservative Party; it is as I stated, the bc LIBERAL Party.

The information above, to which you refer was taken from Wikipedia which states, "The Conservative Party, while having no provincial wings, largely works with the former federal Progressive Conservative Party's provincial affiliates ..."

In actual fact, here is what the Conservative Party of Canada has to say on the matter, in the parties Constitution found on page 17:

15. Provincial Parties

15.1 The Party shall not establish provincial political parties. The Party shall promote and maintain relationships with existing provincial conservative parties.

So ... the federal Conservative Party is NOT affiliated with the provincial LIBERALS ... however they will establish ties with existing provincial conservative parties.

Many at the top of the bc LIBERAL party are well established in the hierarchy of the federal Liberals ... which is led by an individual who more and more has become an embarrassment to all of us.  That individual is Justin Trudeau.

With that in mind, I have to believe more and more individuals (small 'c' conservative by nature) will be fleeing any party with the name Liberal in it. 

That said, I fail to understand how a party that over 16 years piled up ever increasing debt (to the same degree as the previous NDP government) could call itself fiscally responsible.  Then again, we are talking about a LIBERAL party.  

Further, to claim that the BC Conservative party cost you the election is an out and out lie!

The BC Liberals were unable to gain the confidence of enough people to receive their votes.  You ... and your BC Liberal Party (led by Christy Clark) ... lost the election. 

To claim BC Conservatives were the cause of your loss is nothing short of arrogance, and contempt, for the people of BC.  Which is just one more reason why you lost!!!  People who voted for the REAL conservative party do not have some kind of character flaw -- they voted for the party they actually support.

Every individual has the right to support any candidate they choose ... BC Conservative or otherwise.  It's what democracy is all about.

Let's be clear.  You Dan Davies ... and your fellow bc LIBERALS ... do not have the right expect anyone's vote.

You have to earn those votes.  You failed to do so, and it cost your party the election. 

You'll lose the next one as well, if you continue in your arrogance playing the blame game.

In Kamloops, I'm Alan Forseth.  Got a comment to make?  This is your chance to share it now.