UNBC political science instructor Jason Morris offers his take on what could happen in wake of BC United folding its campaign tent
The bombshell that was Kevin Falcon’s decision to suspend BC United’s campaign for the Oct. 19 provincial election and encourage party supporters to prop up the Conservative Party of B.C. has kicked up a storm of political fallout that leaves more questions than answers.
“Since when does a party go from official opposition to dropping out in the space of one term? Since when does the party that won the popular vote in every election but one, back to 1996, just seemingly pack it in?" With BC United no longer in the picture that raises doubts about the political future of such popular high-profile MLAs as Shirley Bond and Coralee Oakes, who no longer have a party to represent in the October election.
It came three months after Falcon and Rustad both rejected a proposed merger between the two parties. Their joint announcement Wednesday happened months after Rustad crossed the floor to join the BC Conservatives, following his dismissal from the BC Liberal caucus for expressing his opposing views on climate change.
“Parties tend to do their own internal polling when they have the finances to do so that we never get to see the results of, so when grand decisions are made like this I suspect that the private polling mirrored what we were being able to see from the public released surveys.
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