Recounts may not change election results very often, but British
Columbia political scientist David Black says they play an increasingly
vital role in demonstrating election integrity.
“There is the quality control, the quality assurance, the
self-correcting nature of our of our system showing up and demonstrating
that it works,” said Black, an associate professor at Greater
Victoria’s Royal Roads University ...
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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
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