British Columbia Premier David Eby is one of the leading Canadian antagonists who quickly aligned with Mark Carney in an effort to gain power. The province was essentially split 50/50, and so David Eby developed a quick plan.
Riding the “Elbow’s Up” wave promoted by most Canadian leadership, Eby announced a strategic snap election in September. His plan was to ride the anti-Trump wave and gain power. However, between the announcement in September and the election last night something shifted. Canadian munchkins began noticing the fraud behind Wizard Carney’s loud but shallow policy. Week by week as the Canadian economy began slipping, a change started.
Then came Lorne Doerkson, a pragmatic and patriotic ‘Conservative’ challenger. Doerkson is conservative in the most Canadian sense. He’s a friendly fellow with tones and a generally affable constitution akin to Mike Huckabee circa 2012. That is to say Doerkson was the perfect ‘non-scary’ candidate to pull in a lot of support.
As a consequence, Premier Eby’s snap election gamble backfired, and he ended up handing the B.C. Conservative Party a majority government. Lorne Doerkson’s party has gained roughly 64 of the province’s 93 ridings (districts), Eby collapsed to 17. {source} Doerkson will now lead British Columbia’s first Conservative government in nearly 100 years. Shortly after the results became evident, David Eby announced he would step down as B.C. NDP leader.
I’m not going to extrapolate too much into this outcome against the backdrop of a U.S. midterm sentiment; however, it would be foolish not to notice the hidden vote base that turned out for Lorne Doerkson.
There is a pragmatic center who fully understands what can be expected from left-wing political policy.
B.C. Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson spoke to party supporters in Vancouver, where he thanked his family, his riding of Cariboo-Chilcotin and campaign volunteers. He promised to work as hard as his volunteers as B.C. premier and praised outgoing premier David Eby for his years of service.
I mentioned this earlier but this is the first time since 1928 that a conservative government has held power in British Columbia.
That in itself makes it a great achievement.
AS SCOTTY FROM THE LITTLE RASCALS USED TO SAY”THEY NEVER LEARN”.
I have to admit amazement. The US state of (Commie) Washington is so close to this area, and yet BC seems to be rejecting globalization, despite the amount of Chinese influence in their area.
Maybe people have also had a bellyful of ridiculously high housing prices and watching the loony lose value. We’ll see what Alberta does.
BC has a sizable Asian population dominated by Chinese. Most of the Chinese came to Vancouver and BC to get away from the CCP. They are wealthy and more conservative than you may think.
I would not be surprised if their vote was a decisive factor in this election. According to Wiki, Chinese are over 11% of the population.
@John Chisum-“BC has a sizable Asian population dominated by Chinese.”
Yes, laws were passed to counter their culture encroachment. Apparently, neighborhoods were looking like they were in China instead of Canada. Architecture was uniquely Chinese instead of Western. Immigrants were remodeling their houses to look like architecture you would find in China. So, Canadians wanted to keep their Canadian identity by passing laws that stopped the Asian appearance of Canadian neighborhoods. Don’t bring the culture you fled from to the new country where you seek asylum. Makes sense doesn’t it?
The laws were passed to stop the acceleration of the real estate market. The Chinese had a lot of cash and were bidding out Canadians from their own markets. BC added a tax of sort, I don’t remember the specifics but that action cooled down the speculation and the Chinese went south into Washington and Oregon to buy homes. Those markets ended up in the same place.
So the conservative voters stayed home for almost a century? They certainly got what they tolerated for four generations. Unfortunately, we suffer from that malaise in the US too. God help us.
They’re conservatives Jim, but not as we know them. 😉
Lorne is a turncoat.
The real Conservative leaders, Dallas Brodie and then Kerry Lynne Findlay, were ousted by a string of nefarious activities including death threats over the last few months.
Meet the new boss (almost) same as the old boss.
Hope I’m wrong…
Emotions, feelings work for a while, then people begin to smarten up.
With the absurdity of the left put a reasoned candidate up mitigate the cheat system and the modern left will be vanquished.
You will get Nixon 49-1 in 1972, Reagan 49-1 1984, the dark ones know this, something must be done…cheat more! The lefts charade only works with fraud.
Right on.