Vaughn Palmer: If Horgan chooses to run again, his approval rating suggests he'll be very tough to beat
“I’m confident that the people around me have taken steps to protect themselves and me, and I’m going confidently into rooms,” Horgan told reporters while attending The Globe forum climate conference in Vancouver.
Notwithstanding the premier’s confidence, he had to go on social media Monday to announce that earlier in the day But as Dix said Monday, even with precautions, one can get infected. But for the vaccinated the symptoms are more likely to be mild.Horgan did inject a note of caution last week in contrast to some of the premature victory laps he’s taken in the past: “We’re going to be with COVID for some time, and I don’t want anyone to believe that this is over.”Article content
I’ve covered 10 B.C. premiers in close to 40 years on the provincial political beat. None of the others had this favourable an approval rating for this long. Then again, six of the 10 didn’t even survive five years in office. “I’m not surprised that the population, through polling, is expressing concern,” said Horgan when asked about the failing marks on housing. “I hear that in my constituency office every day, which is the best polling firm I’ve ever seen, people writing and phoning in. So, I acknowledge there’s a problem and I also acknowledge that we have more work to do.”
By contrast, when NDP MLA Jenny Kwan resigned to run for the federal Parliament in 2015, then-B.C. Liberal Premier Christy Clark ran out the calendar for the full six months before calling the byelection.
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