Oh damn, didn’t think the conservatives would do that well.
I got a call purporting to be from Elections BC, and then telling me to vote for my NDP Candidate. What the actual fuck. I mean I already had, but wtf?
What does this mean for Canada? As an American, I don’t have a ton of insight here. I’m in the US PNW so this is super close to home. Are these people similar to MAGA people? What made BC go in this direction?
Are they as bad as MAGA? Probably not, but not miles away. Their to-do list includes things like repealing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, increasing liquid natural gas production, reducing restrictions on logging, etc. They’ve talked about ICBC (public auto insurance) a lot, so probably that’s in their sights too, maybe try to punish it in order to pave the way for privatization. Oh, and rent control is probably on the chopping block. We’ll see what social policy they try to pursue… they’ve talked about fully repealing the BC Human Rights code in the past though.
Why did BC do this? Canada has a history of voting out people they dislike more than paying attention to who the alternative is. Our own federal MAGA wannabe was leading in polls against Trudeau for the last Canadian election which is partly why Trudeau was finally forced into stepping down. People were angry (rightly so, honestly) at Eby pulling a very early snap election to try to power grab, so a lot of it probably came from that. Only it’s all of us paying for it, not just Eby.
I’ve been enjoying https://bcballot.ca/results/
Well… “enjoying” the site, not the results.
Lots of nail biting for the 8 political parties with candidates.
