After treating the BC Greens as an afterthought for most of the election, NDP Leader David Eby took the gloves off Sunday, urging Green voters to abandon that party and rally behind his own to stop BC Conservative Leader John Rustad from winning on Oct. 19.

“I think that the values of the people who are thinking about voting Green this election are completely at odds with the vision that John Rustad is promoting,” Eby said at an event in Squamish.

“The only way that we can be certain that we don't wake up on Monday morning to premier John Rustad is if we work together.”

The move coincides with an online push by NDP surrogates to portray the Greens as flirting with supporting Rustad, undermining the NDP’s CleanBC climate change strategy and failing to look at the bigger political picture (which, ultimately, conveniently, only benefits the NDP).

Still, it will be a tough sell by New Democrats, for a variety of reasons.

Many voters saw Green Leader Sonia Furstenau deliver a solid performance in the televised leaders’ debate, with a reasonable message to a fractured electorate that neither the NDP nor the Conservatives should be given all the power on election day.

Greens also remember all-too-vividly the NDP tearing up the confidence and supply agreement in 2020, plunging........

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