Kerry-Lynne Findlay has resigned as B.C. Conservative leader.
British Columbia NDP Majority Government 2024-(no later than) 2029
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Train.
Wreck.
Wreck.
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And no one was even thoughtful enough to get out the head of lettuce.
No one ever said that BC politics was good, or boring, either
I wonder if Eby will still pull the trigger on an election? And if Findlay will still run in her byelection?And no one was even thoughtful enough to get out the head of lettuce.
No one ever said that BC politics was good, or boring, either
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She said she's still standing in Abbotsford, but who knows how she'll do now.
The pundits are guessing we'll see an election call by Tuesday next week.
'The Right' will be scrambling to figure out who is running where, especaly the new 'Centre' folks. The NDP has a strong footprint in the more populous urban areas.
In any case, it will be a pretty interesting 'knife fight to the finish' one way or another
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I suspect he’s trying to represent a political custom as a constitutional convention. I’m not aware of anything remotely close to a constitutional norm on this.
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Probably more of a political norm, I guess. I can’t see someone dropping a writ with no opposition leader unless they were up against the absolute latest that an election had to be held. I am unaware of a premier or PM calling an election of choice when there is no opposition leader, but there’s nothing stopping them either.
That’s how I see it too.
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She said she's still standing in Abbotsford, but who knows how she'll do now.
The pundits are guessing we'll see an election call by Tuesday next week.
'The Right' will be scrambling to figure out who is running where, especaly the new 'Centre' folks. The NDP has a strong footprint in the more populous urban areas.
In any case, it will be a pretty interesting 'knife fight to the finish' one way or another
I wonder if we’ll see the business community start smashing heads together, telling them in no uncertain terms to stop f@&$ing around?
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The campaign for Lorne Doerksen to be interim Conservative leader is underway ....
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More tell tale signs...
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MLAs Rustad, Halford, McInnis return to B.C. Conservatives amid snap election speculation
As chaos continues for the B.C. Conservative Party, former leader John Rustad and MLA Scott McInnis have announced they are rejoining the caucus following the resignation of Kerry-Lynne Findlay.
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Ramping up...
50% say it's time for a change of government in recent polls though so, now that KLF is gone, all bets are off...
British Columbia’s political parties are scrambling to ready themselves for an early election call expected by Premier David Eby Tuesday.
The Opposition BC Conservatives spent the day frantically trying to reunite their scattered party, following the resignation of leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay on Sunday.
The BC NDP government, meanwhile, went on a pre-election spending spree.
The Conservatives and offshoot party CentreBC held high-level talks to end their civil war and return the eight former Conservative MLAs back to the party. It did not produce results Monday.
However, five other exiled Conservatives — former leader John Rustad, former interim leader Trevor Halford, MLA Scott McInnis, MLA Linda Hepner and MLA Claire Rattée — did announce they’ve rejoined the party, as part of a movement dubbed “Conservatives Unite Against The NDP.”
“I say to David Eby: bring it on,” said Rustad. “Watch what a united party will do in the centre-right in this election. Because I believe people want change, and we can turf these guys to the curb.”
The Conservatives are preparing to launch their election campaign under interim leader Lorne Doerkson, a low-profile MLA from Cariboo-Chilcotin who was most recently assistant deputy speaker and never appeared to have his eye on the leadership. Nonetheless, he was chosen by the Conservative caucus to lead.
Doerkson will go up against Eby’s NDP government, which announced hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending Monday in a pre-election blitz.
Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma announced the “immediate” restoration of a Burnaby hospital project that had been paused in the February budget.
Health Minister Ravi Kahlon pumped more money Monday into a new six-story, 298-bed, long-term care home in Lantzville, with the help of local-area MLAs.
Kahlon reiterated Eby’s line that voters may need to go to the polls to give the government “stability” at a time of global unrest due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
Attorney General Nikki Sharma unveiled plans for government to sue tech company OpenAI over its role in the Tumbler Ridge tragedy.
Those moves came on top of Eby’s promise to stall an expansion of the Provincial Sales Tax to professional services, as well as build new BC Ferries’ ships in B.C.
“We’ve been in the state of readiness for two years,” he said.
“We’ve had a very fragile one seat majority and that’s come with a lot of challenges to make decisions. But we’ve done our best.”
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50% say it's time for a change of government in recent polls though so, now that KLF is gone, all bets are off...
Rob Shaw: B.C. parties prepare to campaign ahead of expected snap election call
British Columbia’s political parties are scrambling to ready themselves for an early election call expected by Premier David Eby Tuesday.
The Opposition BC Conservatives spent the day frantically trying to reunite their scattered party, following the resignation of leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay on Sunday.
The BC NDP government, meanwhile, went on a pre-election spending spree.
The Conservatives and offshoot party CentreBC held high-level talks to end their civil war and return the eight former Conservative MLAs back to the party. It did not produce results Monday.
However, five other exiled Conservatives — former leader John Rustad, former interim leader Trevor Halford, MLA Scott McInnis, MLA Linda Hepner and MLA Claire Rattée — did announce they’ve rejoined the party, as part of a movement dubbed “Conservatives Unite Against The NDP.”
“I say to David Eby: bring it on,” said Rustad. “Watch what a united party will do in the centre-right in this election. Because I believe people want change, and we can turf these guys to the curb.”
The Conservatives are preparing to launch their election campaign under interim leader Lorne Doerkson, a low-profile MLA from Cariboo-Chilcotin who was most recently assistant deputy speaker and never appeared to have his eye on the leadership. Nonetheless, he was chosen by the Conservative caucus to lead.
Doerkson will go up against Eby’s NDP government, which announced hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending Monday in a pre-election blitz.
Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma announced the “immediate” restoration of a Burnaby hospital project that had been paused in the February budget.
Health Minister Ravi Kahlon pumped more money Monday into a new six-story, 298-bed, long-term care home in Lantzville, with the help of local-area MLAs.
Kahlon reiterated Eby’s line that voters may need to go to the polls to give the government “stability” at a time of global unrest due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
Attorney General Nikki Sharma unveiled plans for government to sue tech company OpenAI over its role in the Tumbler Ridge tragedy.
Those moves came on top of Eby’s promise to stall an expansion of the Provincial Sales Tax to professional services, as well as build new BC Ferries’ ships in B.C.
“We’ve been in the state of readiness for two years,” he said.
“We’ve had a very fragile one seat majority and that’s come with a lot of challenges to make decisions. But we’ve done our best.”
Rob Shaw: B.C. parties prepare to campaign ahead of expected snap election call
British Columbia’s political parties are scrambling to ready themselves for an early election call expected by Premier David Eby Tuesday.
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She’s in very serious disagreement with Eby plan to transfer control of the ALC and all unused ALR land to native control.
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Apparently BC general Election will be called tomorrow at 0930 hrs.
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BC Politics in the wild ... amazing viewing
Honestly, does no one proofread speeches anymore?
How could Kerry-Lynne Findlay stand before municipal leaders last week and proclaim: “I’m not going anywhere,” without realizing the hilarious double entendre?
Her intended meaning — “I have no intention of quitting” — lasted five days before she bowed to the inevitable and quit.
Like nearly everything else she said over the past 15 weeks, it turned out to be wildly off base.
But as a prophetic summation of her spectacularly inept leadership of the Conservative Party of B.C., it was bang on. It will go down in history as a political epitaph of the first order.
By contrast, her swan song on Sunday was a lot of smarmy, self-absorbed mush. She wrote that when she took over May 30, she wanted to spend a few months listening and earning people’s trust, but too much time was “consumed by internal conflict.”
Maybe the fact that she fired all the well-regarded staff and replaced them with more than a few third-rate fringe mercenaries had something to do with that.
Maybe the fact she ignored most of her caucus, didn’t return their calls and didn’t even bother showing up at meetings that she called factored into it.
She made one grudging effort to acknowledge responsibility. “I have made decisions I would make differently with the benefit of hindsight.”
But then she played the victim card. “Attacks on someone’s character and family and threats… cross a line that should concern all of us.” “I am a wife, a mother, and a grandmother.”
She said the family sees what is said about her and lives with the consequences of her decisions.
But where was all that concern about family when she equated leadership rival Peter Milobar’s marriage to an Indigenous woman to a conflict of interest?
She also declared she would not let the captivating internal battles become a continuing distraction. This came 15 weeks into a non-stop, 24/7 internal guerrilla war that was getting national attention. It was a bit late in the game.
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Les Leyne: Kerry-Lynne Findlay fulfils her prophecy — she went nowhere
Honestly, does no one proofread speeches anymore?
How could Kerry-Lynne Findlay stand before municipal leaders last week and proclaim: “I’m not going anywhere,” without realizing the hilarious double entendre?
Her intended meaning — “I have no intention of quitting” — lasted five days before she bowed to the inevitable and quit.
Like nearly everything else she said over the past 15 weeks, it turned out to be wildly off base.
But as a prophetic summation of her spectacularly inept leadership of the Conservative Party of B.C., it was bang on. It will go down in history as a political epitaph of the first order.
By contrast, her swan song on Sunday was a lot of smarmy, self-absorbed mush. She wrote that when she took over May 30, she wanted to spend a few months listening and earning people’s trust, but too much time was “consumed by internal conflict.”
Maybe the fact that she fired all the well-regarded staff and replaced them with more than a few third-rate fringe mercenaries had something to do with that.
Maybe the fact she ignored most of her caucus, didn’t return their calls and didn’t even bother showing up at meetings that she called factored into it.
She made one grudging effort to acknowledge responsibility. “I have made decisions I would make differently with the benefit of hindsight.”
But then she played the victim card. “Attacks on someone’s character and family and threats… cross a line that should concern all of us.” “I am a wife, a mother, and a grandmother.”
She said the family sees what is said about her and lives with the consequences of her decisions.
But where was all that concern about family when she equated leadership rival Peter Milobar’s marriage to an Indigenous woman to a conflict of interest?
She also declared she would not let the captivating internal battles become a continuing distraction. This came 15 weeks into a non-stop, 24/7 internal guerrilla war that was getting national attention. It was a bit late in the game.
Les Leyne: Kerry-Lynne Findlay fulfils her prophecy — she went nowhere
How could Kerry-Lynne Findlay stand before municipal leaders last week and proclaim: “I’m not going anywhere,” without realizing the hilarious double entendre?
www.timescolonist.com
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Good luck BC... may the odds be ever in your favour!
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Good luck BC... may the odds be ever in your favour!
On the plus side: during an election campaign, the caretake convention means that the good idea fairies are making promises, not actually doing the stupid things they're promising.
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