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42nd British Columbia Provincial Election and term | October 2020 - 2024


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#101 Mike K.

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Posted 17 September 2020 - 03:35 PM

Oh oh.

The NDP might have backed itself into a corner.

It turns out they want to make an exception for Cullen, a white male, despite an indigenous woman seeking the seat, too.

Here’s what Richard Zussman just said via Twitter:

The B.C. NDP have an equity mandate. This is their answer when I asked how Nathan Cullen qualified. "In certain instances, despite extensive candidate searches, our regulations permit allowances for other candidates to be considered for nomination.”

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#102 JimV

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Posted 17 September 2020 - 03:45 PM

Circumstances like we really want to win the seat.


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#103 VIResident

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Posted 19 September 2020 - 07:54 AM

This community won't be voting NDP.

 

Jack Knox: Trapped by a tax he can't afford to pay or fight

".......And now penalties have taken the ever-climbing tax bill to $275,000. Collection agents are involved, which has screwed up his credit rating, which means when his mortgage comes up, he’ll pay through the nose.

 

 

He is stressed. So are his friends. “It breaks my heart, what the provincial government is putting him through,” says Ginger Halbert, one of his regular customers. “Nobody’s listening. Nobody cares, but it’s his whole life.”

“If this is how we treat the good people who we want to come here, they’re not going to come.”  https://www.timescol...ight-1.24206012


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#104 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 20 September 2020 - 05:57 AM

Weaver’s departure changed the rules

I write in response to my friend Norman Spector’s open letter to the lieutenant-governor. I too have a constitutional background, having served as B.C.’s minister of constitutional affairs in the early 1990s.

We are not on the verge of a constitutional crisis, but we are in the midst of a COVID-19 crisis. This pandemic will fundamentally alter the construct of our society. Already, we are witness to the disruptive effects of COVID on the very nature of work, leisure, travel and global commerce.

The changes that await us will require a rethinking of economic and social policy akin to the significant changes that followed the Second World War.

Against this backdrop, B.C. requires intelligent, informed and decisive leadership in the years ahead.

As Spector acknowledges, it is the prerogative of the premier to call an election. There is nothing unconstitutional in challenging all political parties to put forth their best ideas before British Columbians at this critical juncture.

As the prime minister has correctly noted, it would be “irresponsible to say that an election would be irresponsible.” New Brunswick just held an election. Saskatchewan is about to hold one. New Zealand is in the midst of one.

There is ample evidence that with expanded advance voting and mail voting that elections can be safely held during a pandemic.

Nor does B.C.’s fixed election date laws preclude an election at this time. The law implicitly acknowledges that minority governments can fall at anytime.

In opposing an election, Spector seems to rely heavily on his understanding of the Confidence and Supply Agreement between the Greens and the NDP.

I agree that the Green/NDP pact provided political stability whilst Andrew Weaver served as Green Party leader. But as Weaver left the Greens to sit as an Independent, much of the pragmatism of the Greens departed as well.

Not only has Weaver been critical of his former Green colleagues, but he has summed things up by saying “British Columbians would benefit from having Mr. Horgan as premier.”

As it stands, 42 of the 45 MLAs that are signatories to the Green/NDP agreement no longer think that it is workable.

Simply put, there is no constitutional impediment to holding an election. The real issue facing British Columbians is which party and which leader is best positioned to lead B.C. through the turbulent times that await us.

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#105 Mike K.

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Posted 20 September 2020 - 03:40 PM

I wonder what Sihota thinks about Horgan’s cabinet imploding as high ranking MLA after MLA walks?

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#106 Jacques Cadé

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Posted 20 September 2020 - 03:56 PM

Carole James has endorsed Grace Lore to be the NDP candidate in Victoria-Beacon Hill: https://gracelore.ca...nts-carolejames

Looks like the party establishment is lining up behind Grace Lore. Creates an interesting situation if the youth wing prefers Stephanie Papik: if alienated, some might vote Green instead. Depending on who the Green candidate is, of course.


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#107 Nparker

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Posted 20 September 2020 - 04:40 PM

Perhaps Stephanie Papik should run for the Green Party nomination.



#108 VIResident

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 06:03 AM

John Horgan clearly wants to call an early election, but his biggest problem is he can't say the reason why - and everyone knows it.



#109 VIResident

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 06:07 AM

Vaughn Palmer: "If John Horgan is prepared to throw one principle under the bus, who knows what others might be within striking distance of his political ambitions."



#110 VIResident

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 06:09 AM

Speaking of principles, Greens seem to have an issue:

 

Vancouver city councillor ‘shocked’ by report calling for his resignation
Green Party Coun. Michael Wiebe subject of conflict-of-interest allegations
 


#111 Mike K.

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 06:30 AM

From the link above:

Green Party city councillor Michael Wiebe’s future on council is uncertain after an independent investigator recommended he resign because of votes he made in May that allowed temporary patios across the city including one at his restaurant and another at a pub in which he is an investor.

 

Wiebe, who owns Eight ½ restaurant in Mount Pleasant and has a business interest in Portside Pub in Gastown, told Glacier Media Sunday that lawyer Raymond Young conducted the investigation into conflict-of-interest allegations brought forward by a citizen named Michael Redmond.

 

Young also recommended Wiebe, who is one of three Green Party members on the 11-member council, be disqualified from holding office until the next election in October 2022.

 


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#112 VIResident

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 07:14 AM

With a 'looming' election are goodies about to be handed out?  Seems so however a little late and this gov. has lost a number of votes for their handling of cannabis rollout:

The province has announced 2 law changes intended to improve and expand small-scale cannabis sales in BC: 

  • Small federally-licensed producers and nurseries can send their products straight to retailers
  • Growers can sell their products right on the production site in "farm gate" stores 

The province will also launch a program in 2021 intended to promote Indigenous producers. Thus far BC's cannabis legalization rollout has been fraught with problems, as Capital Daily reported on earlier this month, which have shut down or stymied local dispensaries and industry workers. 


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#113 Nparker

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 07:40 AM

Of all the things that concern me in the province right now, the promotion - or lack thereof - of local cannabis production is pretty much at the bottom of the list.


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#114 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 09:04 AM

Premier John Horgan is meeting with Lieutenant Governor Janet Austin on Monday and afterwards plans to address the public, according to the NDP. The meeting with Austin is a necessary formality before an election is called, as the lieutenant governor has to give her OK to dissolve the legislature.

 

An election would likely take place on Oct. 24.


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#115 Mike K.

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 09:07 AM

But the City of Victoria can't get its act together until December 12th, at the absolute earliest.


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#116 JohnsonStBridge

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 09:44 AM

But the City of Victoria can't get its act together until December 12th, at the absolute earliest.

 

Didn't you know it is far more complex to organize and plan an election for 1 seat than for 87 seats? /s


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#117 GetLisaSomeHelps

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 09:59 AM

But the City of Victoria can't get its act together until December 12th, at the absolute earliest.

The City was told to make excuses as to why it couldnt happen as they (councillors) know there is a high probably of fallout from the provincial election.

Edit: or at least this is my assumption.

Edited by GetLisaSomeHelps, 21 September 2020 - 09:59 AM.

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#118 Mike K.

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 10:00 AM

Didn't you know it is far more complex to organize and plan an election for 1 seat than for 87 seats? /s

 

Dude, we're no Cowichan Lake. More like a very tiny Surrey, sort of.


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#119 JohnsonStBridge

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 10:59 AM

The premier's press conference announcing the snap election has garbage cans as a backdrop. Is this supposed to be a deeper meaning for the substance behind their Confidence and Supply Agreement with the greens?

 



#120 lanforod

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Posted 21 September 2020 - 12:03 PM

So, show of hands: who cares enough about a snap election in a pandemic to change their vote away from NDP?

 

(I don't count, I likely would not vote NDP)


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