BC’s premier seemed trapped by DRIPA, deficit and disappointed activists. Carney opened a new door.
The short answer is no. Eby and the BC NDP keep chasing a mythical voter who will never vote for them. They’ve always been a Centre-Left party, but shearing off the flank was and remains a bold choice.
Eby has been a great disappointment and next election is likely going to end up with him being the big loser. The BC Green’s making a left turn is going to eat into the BC NDP base just enough to split.
Which I have zero empathy for. The BC NDP could have changed the voting system multiple times, and its failed to institute democratic reforms that are in their own self interest. So they’re the masters of their own demise.
David Eby had went on record to say he was against proportional representation coming from a guy who had a leadership race without competition.
BC is broke af, the DRIPA issue is a court case with different Indigenous nations on opposing sides and Eby definitely played his hand totally wrong. The housing announcement was well intentioned but accompanied with so few concrete details the speculation rivals the housing bubble itself. BCNDP members support the striking nurses but negotiations aren’t easy as evidenced by the months long BCGEU struggle. Those budget pressures mean the province needs some federal help to get large capital projects underway and money in provincial coffers, but then the resource development drives former supporters to Lowan’s camp. The floor-crossing MLA undercuts assertions that the centrist voter Eby is catering towards don’t exist.
There are many tough issues that Eby is going through, he’s a lawyer and a former activist, and while I would like to see more of his activist side again, he doesn’t have the charisma of Kinew so in my opinion he’s doing a decent job given the challenges. We need the party to get on with some of its campaign promises, very soon.
