In a campaign that has had some weird moments, former B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver’s support for the B.C. Conservatives is one of the harder moves to process.

His entire academic career is studying climate change and warning about its perils. It was the main drum he beat during his two terms as an Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA.

But now he is endorsing Conservative candidate Stephen Andrew in his former riding. Conservatives are dismissive of climate change and committed to repealing the carbon tax that Weaver advised the B.C. Liberal government on 17 years ago.

You have to have a lot on your mind to overlook that and throw your support behind a candidate for a party that is relatively indifferent to your life’s work.

The pair appeared on an online forum this week and Stephen Andrew will be papering the riding next week with a letter of support Weaver wrote.

Weaver has explained his thinking in recent blog posts and they centre on the personal, as much as the political. He has misgivings about B.C. NDP Leader David Eby and gets along much better with Conservative Leader........

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