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Rob Shaw: Trump threats jolt listless NDP from post-election stupor

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21.01.2025

When Premier David Eby took the stage last week to announce the United States had declared “economic war” on the province, something remarkable happened: He sounded and looked like a premier again.

Normally, that’s not something you have to say about the head of a provincial government. But B.C.’s New Democrats have been aimlessly sleepwalking since they barely won the October election. They’ve done virtually nothing, other than punt off a legislative session and spend the better part of three months studiously navel-gazing as part of a post-election “transition” plan from one administration to — er, well, the exact same administration.

Then Donald Trump threatened a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods. He takes office Monday. And the resulting national outrage appears to have snapped the BC NDP out of its slumber.

“Our country is under direct threat by the president-elect of the United States,” said Eby.

“It is a declaration of economic war, in my opinion, and in wartime, people need to come together and support each other, whatever it takes to ensure we get the attention of the Americans that we remind them about how their prosperity is our prosperity.”

“British Columbians........

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