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Kirk LaPointe: BC NDP’s enduring popularity a puzzler for opponents (Burnaby Now)


If anything can rival the surprising status of the Vancouver Canucks, it must be that of the BC NDP. A half-year from an election, the script wasn’t supposed to play out this way.

When Premier John Horgan stepped down in 2022, most everyone believed the party would take several steps back in popularity. It hasn’t happened.

When the health-care lineups lengthened, it didn’t come about.

When the housing supply failed to materialize, it failed to occur.

When $10-a-day childcare didn’t blossom, it wasn’t fatal.

When chronic repeat offenders weren’t kept off the streets, when the 10-digit deficit resurfaced, when accusations arose of antisemitism in the ranks, the poll command ought to have buckled and evaporated. Not really . . . .

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