The New Democrat whose 27-vote, come-from-behind election victory is
being credited with giving Premier David Eby a razor-thin majority says
he's a bridge builder in his diverse community and the party needs to
forge similar relationships across British Columbia.
Garry Begg's slim win over the BC Conservative candidate in
Surrey-Guildford is still subject to a judicial recount, but for now it
gives the NDP the 47 seats needed to form a majority in British
Columbia's 93-seat legislature ...
CLICK HERE for the full story
Thirty-seven years ago, Halloween 1987, I became the leader of the BC Liberal Party. British Columbia was badly polarized. Social Credit held one side and the NDP the other. It had been twelve years, 1975, since Liberal MLAs Garde Gardom, Pat McGeer, and Alan Williams had walked away from their party to join Social Credit, one year after the lone Progressive Conservative MLA Hugh Curtis had abandoned his party to sit with Bill Bennett, the son and heir apparent to long-serving BC Premier, WAC Bennett. An unwritten agreement by the biggest Canadian political shareholders, the federal Liberals and Conservatives, decided that if British Columbia was to remain a lucrative franchise from a revenue perspective, they couldn’t risk splitting the electoral vote and electing the real enemy, the NDP, so no resources would be used to finance either a Liberal or Conservative party provincially. “There are two sides to every street,” I was told by a very prominent Canadian businessman who cont
Comments
Post a Comment