Hold your nose, but don’t hand BC to the Conservatives |
I get it. You’re mad as a hornet because BC Premier David Eby called an election for Oct. 24 that a whole lot of British Columbians think we didn’t need.
Maybe you were convinced it would steal the thunder from municipal elections. (It didn’t. The turnout rate, at least in Vancouver, Surrey and on Vancouver Island, was significantly higher than last time.)
Perhaps you didn't buy the premier’s assertion that a strong new NDP mandate was needed to counter the ongoing tariff war waged by US President Donald Trump battering BC’s economy. It’s true there is only so much a premier can do on that front — that’s primarily Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cross to bear. Fair.
However, it’s a bit harder to argue with Eby’s followup rationale that it is unreasonably difficult to govern with a one-seat majority and an opposition party that has tried 13 times to bring the government down. His description during the recent leaders debate of MLA voting from their hospital beds while undergoing cancer treatment was compelling. But really that’s just politics when the margins are so thin.
Then there are those of you looking for a leader and party with strong climate policy who were angry with Eby long before he called another election. There is no doubt Eby has become an uber champion of liquefied natural gas (LNG), a fossil fuel that contributes to the........