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October 23, 2026 - BC's Snap Election is (Almost) Over! | Political Capital · Political Capital with Rob Shaw

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  Speaker 1: Check podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, everyone, and welcome to Political Capital, your source
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  Speaker 2: for all the latest in B.C. politics. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 2: Rob Shaw. The election is over. The end of what
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  Speaker 2: was actually a 32-day campaign due to the snap call
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  Speaker 2: from Premier David Eby, a long and at times vicious campaign.
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  Speaker 2: election campaign two years early to try and reset the
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  Speaker 2: table at the BC legislature from the last election. 47
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  Speaker 2: seats for the NDP, 44 for the Conservatives, two for
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  Speaker 2: the Greens. We'll see where those numbers land once voting
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  Speaker 2: is done. We're going to bring in the pod squad Alleyblades.
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  Speaker 2: Gillian Oliver, Jeff Ferrier are here like each and every week.
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  Speaker 2: Let us just Take people back in time, in our
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  Speaker 2: time machine that hits 60 miles per hour and goes... Anyways,
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  Speaker 2: it's back to the future. But we'll go back to
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of this election. Premier Eby says we need it.
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  Speaker 2: We got to go early. This is why he makes
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  Speaker 2: a case. Now we're at the end. Did he effectively
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  Speaker 2: make that case? And how did he walk us through it,
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  Speaker 2: do we think? Jeff, why don't we start with you?
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  Speaker 3: So your question is, did the snap election called rationale
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  Speaker 3: land with voters?
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  Speaker 4: Nope.
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  Speaker 3: Did not. It did not land. Uh, and I would
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  Speaker 3: argue that it became the topic of conversation for the
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  Speaker 3: better part of the campaign among many voters. I think
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  Speaker 3: what you've seen from the NDP based on that as
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  Speaker 3: a pivot, they pivoted off the Trump, uh, focused, uh,
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  Speaker 3: campaign onto some combination of conservative change would be too
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  Speaker 3: risky because of, uh, candidates, party chaos, and cuts. Is
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  Speaker 3: that going to land in voters' hands now? We'll see
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  Speaker 3: in just a few hours.
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  Speaker 2: That was kind of my read, too, of it. Gillian,
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  Speaker 2: do you think that's kind of what happened? And if so,
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean for the NDP to have to
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  Speaker 2: do those pivots and kind of work the messaging through
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  Speaker 2: in different ways along the campaign?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think it meant that it was
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  Speaker 1: really hard for anything that they did to break through
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  Speaker 1: more than the sort of ire over the senselessness of
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  Speaker 1: the election call itself, because they weren't able to sort
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  Speaker 1: of have a consistent message.
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  Speaker 4: Throughout the campaign.
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  Speaker 1: And people were sort of just left asking, why didn't
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  Speaker 1: you do any of these things when you were in office?
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  Speaker 1: Because I think that people, you know, I think back
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  Speaker 1: to EB's tone on the day of the drop, and
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  Speaker 1: he would said things like, I'm asking British Columbians to
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  Speaker 1: do this for me, you know, and I think it
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  Speaker 1: came off as very entitled. And it just led to
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  Speaker 1: this sort of almost like personal outrage and frustration with
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  Speaker 1: him that you still hear as kind of top of mind.
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  Speaker 3: As people are preparing to head to the polls.
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  Speaker 2: Allie, what do you think?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think David Eby's calculus was that the ability
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  Speaker 4: to put this forward would just last maybe like 24
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  Speaker 4: hour cycle. What I mean by that is like, he
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  Speaker 4: thought that everybody would forget about the snap election part
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  Speaker 4: of this in a 24 hour news cycle. And then
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  Speaker 4: we would move on to focus on that Trump mandate
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  Speaker 4: that he was asking for, that he needed stronger representation
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  Speaker 4: in the legislature in order to be able to do
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  Speaker 4: what he wanted to accomplish. And then as the days
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  Speaker 4: went on, that didn't really go away with, which probably
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  Speaker 4: wasn't what he was thinking was going to happen. And
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  Speaker 4: then as we get closer and closer to E-Day, shockingly,
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  Speaker 4: what's actually happening is people wondering whether or not he
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  Speaker 4: should still be the leader of the NDP. Like I'm
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  Speaker 4: hearing some divides from within the House and people are
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  Speaker 4: thinking about already which force am I going to back
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  Speaker 4: in this upcoming leadership race, strategic voting from longtime NDP members.
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  Speaker 4: Like this is not at all what he had anticipated.
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  Speaker 4: And in fact, it's going quite the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: I will say, I think to throw my own opinion
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  Speaker 2: in here, if he does not achieve at least a
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  Speaker 2: four seat majority from the electorate, his time as premier
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  Speaker 2: is done. If he comes back with a minority or
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  Speaker 2: a small majority after all of that, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: I think the knives will be out for him in
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  Speaker 2: the party. And obviously if he loses, more than likely
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  Speaker 2: he would have to resign versus staying as opposition leader.
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  Speaker 2: But a big gamble by the premier. Let's pivot and
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  Speaker 2: then talk about the Conservatives. I mean, it feels like
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  Speaker 2: a lifetime ago that Kerry Lynn Finlay quit or was
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  Speaker 2: pushed out as leader of that party. It was only
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  Speaker 2: like 30 some odd days ago. Lauren Dirksen, a man
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  Speaker 2: out of nowhere, becomes leader of the Conservatives 24 hours
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  Speaker 2: before the snap election is called. A campaign is scrambled together.
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  Speaker 2: What did we see and think of the Conservative campaign
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  Speaker 2: as it went along? And now at the end, Where
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  Speaker 2: did it land and not land, Jeff, in the job
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  Speaker 2: that it did?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the Conservatives stand at the edge of
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  Speaker 3: forming a government. I think they ran a campaign that
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  Speaker 3: pivoted away. We say pivot a lot, but that's what
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  Speaker 3: you do during campaigns, facing conditions that change during campaign.
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  Speaker 3: They pivoted away from some of the chaos you saw
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  Speaker 3: under Carolyn Finlay, the former leader, and they put Lauren
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  Speaker 3: Derpson in the window as a stable.
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  Speaker 3: Steadying influence. And I think that connected with some voters.
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  Speaker 3: I think the challenge for them today on election day
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  Speaker 3: is if people who are, you know, I'm upset with
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  Speaker 3: the NDP for calling this election early. I think I
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  Speaker 3: want change from the way things are going is, are
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  Speaker 3: they going to say, is this change too risky? Is
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  Speaker 3: it something that at the end of the day, when
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  Speaker 3: I've made all my decisions and I'm in my ballot box,
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  Speaker 3: is it too risky? And again, it's in their hands
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  Speaker 3: and we'll see where it lands.
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  Speaker 2: Ali, what do you think of that too risky? It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of the core of the counter from the NDP
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  Speaker 2: and it was in 2024 as well. And it worked
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  Speaker 2: just enough at the last moment for voters to kind
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  Speaker 2: of seize up from giving the conservatives power. Has it
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  Speaker 2: looking like it's working this time? And what's the campaign
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  Speaker 2: been like in your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Been here, done that. We experienced that in 2024, where
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  Speaker 4: it's exactly that message that Jeff was sharing, that the
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  Speaker 4: Conservative vote would be too risky. And at the time,
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  Speaker 4: it was different circumstances. It was a brand new party.
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  Speaker 4: But the Conservatives were a decent opposition in the legislature,
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  Speaker 4: like they would put David Eby on his toes. And
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  Speaker 4: so It's not as if we are an unknown group now.
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  Speaker 4: We've put forward ideas. We've put forward a platform. And
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  Speaker 4: it's not the same calculus that you could define the
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  Speaker 4: Conservatives in 2024.
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  Speaker 2: You've been working on the Conservative campaign, Ali. How extraordinary
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  Speaker 2: has it been to cobble this thing together on the fly?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 4: You sometimes forget just how quickly this was put together
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  Speaker 4: and how even we had a different leader 40 days ago.
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  Speaker 4: I forget this constantly because we just move forward, move forward.
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  Speaker 4: Just like I forget about Centre BC every single day.
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  Speaker 4: I was reminded that we do actually have some Centre
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  Speaker 4: BC candidates in some ridings and it's not potentially going
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  Speaker 4: to be an issue. But I'm pretty sure everybody else
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  Speaker 4: forgot about them too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, some ridings like Surrey South, we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: watching to see Eleanor Sturckow, Centre BC leader's impact on
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  Speaker 2: the race. We'll talk about that after the break. Jillian,
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  Speaker 2: the Conservatives, your view of their campaign?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they played it super, super safe in this final
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  Speaker 1: home stretch. Dirksen hasn't done a lot of interviews. He
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  Speaker 1: hasn't even really been responding to a ton of media questions.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't release their full platform until after the debate,
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  Speaker 1: which is really unusual. I can't remember exactly. that ever
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  Speaker 1: happening before in any election that I've worked for. They
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  Speaker 1: turfed a few controversial candidates, but only in ridings that
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't win, really trying to keep that caucus together,
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  Speaker 1: kind of clamp down on controversy by staying quiet. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't respond to it a ton when things came up
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  Speaker 1: and just tried to play it super, super safe. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that really speaks to the remarkable impact centralization
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  Speaker 1: of power that happened within the campaign. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: been really remarkable. When we think back to the chaos,
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  Speaker 1: there was like a bunch of MLAs that were going
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  Speaker 1: to run with Centre BC and even one that was
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  Speaker 1: going to lead it just days before the election. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see that coming. And I think that that probably
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  Speaker 1: is giving voters some more assurance that they are a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more organized than they were last time. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if they do form government, if they're able to
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  Speaker 1: kind of keep it together. I think that sometimes crisis
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  Speaker 1: can have everybody come together. If we think back to
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  Speaker 1: like those early days of COVID and everybody's banging on
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  Speaker 1: the pots, the conservatives are kind of in that phase
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  Speaker 1: right now with their own crisis management.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Been a safe kind of well, pretty well run campaign
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  Speaker 1: given the circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: I describe it as a professional, safe, cautious campaign. That
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  Speaker 2: old adage in politics that When a government is falling
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  Speaker 2: or appears to be falling, sometimes the best thing an
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  Speaker 2: opposition can do is just get out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: And that may or may not be the story of
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  Speaker 2: this election once we see what voters decide. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: take a quick break. When we come back, we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about the Greens and some of the other dynamics. at play. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it was the first election for BC Green leader Emily Lowen,
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  Speaker 2: and the Greens ran a campaign that looks like it
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  Speaker 2: has some momentum behind it as it reaches the final stretch. Jillian,
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  Speaker 2: the polls indicate. which seemed to indicate the Greens have
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  Speaker 2: done pretty well here. We see the NDP in the
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  Speaker 2: final days urging people not to vote Green to split
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  Speaker 2: the vote. What do you make of how the Green
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  Speaker 2: campaign evolved and went during this race?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Lohan only became leader a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: So in a lot of ways, she's the most recently
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  Speaker 1: practiced at running a campaign. And I think that we've
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  Speaker 1: kind of seen that, like that she sort of never
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  Speaker 1: left campaign mode since she won the leadership campaign. I
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  Speaker 1: think that the Greens came into this election also best
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  Speaker 1: position than they ever have to pick up disillusioned progressive voters,
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  Speaker 1: because we've seen the NDP break so many promises on
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  Speaker 1: the progressive side, whether that's continuing to log old growth
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  Speaker 1: or freezing $ 10 a day childcare. So there were so
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  Speaker 1: many issues that the Greens could really own that the
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  Speaker 1: other parties just weren't talking about, because they promised to
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  Speaker 1: pay for it with this massive wealth tax. And I
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  Speaker 1: think early in the campaign, they also didn't face a
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  Speaker 1: lot of scrutiny on their policies because they were polling
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  Speaker 1: more in like the single digits. And this bump has
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  Speaker 1: kind of come after a relatively strong debate performance where
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  Speaker 1: you had the other two leaders like quibbling over social
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  Speaker 1: media posts and Loewen continuing to talk about the issues
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  Speaker 1: and kind of just looking like a bit of like
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  Speaker 1: much needed refreshment that I think has been really appealing
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  Speaker 1: to voters when the mood of this election is just
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  Speaker 1: that people are just, of so much politics and so
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  Speaker 1: much status quo politics. The vote-splitting strategy is something that
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  Speaker 1: the NDP has trotted out every election. They're going really,
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  Speaker 1: really hard on it right now, which I think speaks
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  Speaker 1: to how concerned they are about losing some of their
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  Speaker 1: key ridings. There's a lot of ridings in the province
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  Speaker 1: where the Greens come second to the NDP. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the ones that Lowen is really targeting, going after younger voters,
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  Speaker 1: going after working-class voters. especially on Southern Vancouver Island. So
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be really interesting to see if those
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  Speaker 1: sort of like vote splitting fears are still effective. Usually
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  Speaker 1: we see the green election result drop a little bit
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  Speaker 1: from the polling, partially because they don't run a full slate,
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  Speaker 1: but also partially because of those like kind of fear-based
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  Speaker 1: votes switching at the last time. But I think like
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  Speaker 1: the disillusionment and distrust from progressive voters with the NDP
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  Speaker 1: is at an all-time high compared to the last decade.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that the Green vote might be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit stickier than it has been in the past.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ali, why don't we bring in 1BC and CentreBC as
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  Speaker 2: well and just give me your thoughts on all those
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  Speaker 2: three campaigns. They are different because the Greens ran 70-some-odd candidates.
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  Speaker 2: CentreBC and 1BC only ran in the 30s. I was
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  Speaker 2: surprised CentreBC kept running a campaign that talked about what
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  Speaker 2: they would do when they formed government, which is impossible
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  Speaker 2: with the number of candidates that they ran. But Eleanor Sturckow,
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  Speaker 2: a formidable legislator... What did you make of all three campaigns?
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  Speaker 4: When we talk about pivoting so much on this show,
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  Speaker 4: like that is a pivot that it might actually cost
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  Speaker 4: the center, B.C., any sort of being able to show
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  Speaker 4: up in any sort of real way on the election
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  Speaker 4: night results. And that's coming in second or third because
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that they have done a good enough
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  Speaker 4: campaign yet. they're not going to win any ridings. So
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  Speaker 4: then it turns into, well, how close did they potentially
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  Speaker 4: get to winning any riding? And I don't think that
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  Speaker 4: that's going to happen either, because exactly that, they never
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  Speaker 4: truly pivoted away from that messaging. This is interesting, this
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  Speaker 4: vote split on the center right, because it's not completely
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  Speaker 4: new to us in that we had a ton of
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  Speaker 4: independent candidates run in the last election, but they were
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  Speaker 4: just under their own individual campaigns versus now under one
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  Speaker 4: umbrella with Centre and then with Dallas Brody for 1BC.
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  Speaker 4: Like Kulshana is an interesting one to watch potentially for
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  Speaker 4: this campaign because there was a recall campaign as well
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  Speaker 4: in Kulshana. And so there was a lot of attention
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  Speaker 4: already on getting rid of her. So I wonder if
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  Speaker 4: her efforts, basically just campaigning, in Kulshana and Penticton will
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  Speaker 4: produce anything at all.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be fascinating to watch. Jeff, the Greens, 1BC, Centre BC,
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  Speaker 2: anything stand out for you there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think with respect to all of those parties,
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  Speaker 3: with the exception of a couple of write-ins, these are
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  Speaker 3: going to be spoilers in a broader election of two
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  Speaker 3: parties that are best positioned to form government. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: not saying that that's the way it ought to be.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm very sympathetic towards Greens. My entry into politics
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  Speaker 3: was in Ontario where I was third party. And I
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  Speaker 3: remember saying, vote with your conscience, vote for what you
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  Speaker 3: believe in. And I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
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  Speaker 3: I just think that in all of these races, it
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  Speaker 3: will result potentially in a shift of votes away from
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  Speaker 3: one of the parties that could form government and have
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  Speaker 3: an impact on election day there. I think we saw
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  Speaker 3: something really interesting in Vancouver this last campaign where progressives
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  Speaker 3: came together ahead of the campaign and said, we see
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  Speaker 3: a risk here of another party forming government and we
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  Speaker 3: can't have proportional representation because people won't go for that,
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  Speaker 3: but maybe there's an opportunity for us in a more
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  Speaker 3: formal way to work together, to pick some ridings where
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  Speaker 3: one party stands in and other ridings where the other
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  Speaker 3: party stands in. And if that were to happen, we
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  Speaker 3: might have a different result than we will likely see
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  Speaker 3: on election night. And it's something that I think that
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  Speaker 3: the two parties ought to have grown up conversation about
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  Speaker 3: and consider.
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  Speaker 2: You have a long, complicated history, the Greens and the
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  Speaker 2: NDP from cooperation and tumult. I think tumult is a word, tumultuous,
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  Speaker 2: the source of, anyways, there's a conversation that could be
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  Speaker 2: had there, but we'll see if it happens after the election. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to take a break. When we come back,
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about the, maybe the possible outcomes and what
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  Speaker 2: they would mean to this election campaign. But welcome back
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  Speaker 2: as we're closing out this BC election campaign. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to go around again to our panel just to ask
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  Speaker 2: about any surprises, anything that stood out for you in
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  Speaker 2: this campaign you weren't expecting that may or may not
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  Speaker 2: have changed the dynamic of this race. Ellie, why don't
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  Speaker 2: we start with you? Any surprises you'll think back on
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  Speaker 2: fondly or not so fondly in this campaign?
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  Speaker 4: This whole thing has been a surprise.
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  Speaker 2: No one had planned for this whatsoever.
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  Speaker 4: So, I mean, that big one, the fact that we're
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  Speaker 4: even here in the first place, specifically on the timing,
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  Speaker 4: like I think there was always this aura of a
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  Speaker 4: potential snap election, especially with the previous conservative leader when
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  Speaker 4: she was in that position. But David Ipiz never really
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  Speaker 4: had the right timing on these things. He's been criticized
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  Speaker 4: by that from his own membership even before. when he
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  Speaker 4: should have called a snap election, but he didn't. And
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  Speaker 4: then here we are again, and now his future in
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  Speaker 4: politics is at jeopardy for it. And so this whole
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  Speaker 4: kit and caboodle is a surprise. Jeff?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have it on my bingo card that the
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  Speaker 3: Conservatives will lose a candidate because they thought that Adolf
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  Speaker 3: Hitler's record was misunderstood. I think the bigger surprise, though,
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  Speaker 3: is just the staying power of the, we're upset with
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  Speaker 3: the snap election call. That That kind of anger typically
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  Speaker 3: in campaigns like this one will last for a few
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  Speaker 3: days or maybe a week. This time it seems to
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  Speaker 3: have carried over enough that, as we mentioned off the
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  Speaker 3: top of the show, that the NDPs had to pivot
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  Speaker 3: to a different ballot question around risky change versus sticking
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  Speaker 3: with the folks you know. And so, yeah, those are
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  Speaker 3: my surprises.
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  Speaker 2: Gillian, surprises?
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, having campaigned against a strong NDP
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  Speaker 1: so many times, I've been really surprised at their inability
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  Speaker 1: to sort of like have a clear narrative and a
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  Speaker 1: clear message. Especially, I was thinking back to the, they
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  Speaker 1: thought that they had an early win with getting the
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  Speaker 1: phase two LNG Canada award. investment but instead of sort
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: of sticking with that strategy the next week they pivoted
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: or even just a few days later pivoted to like
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: an economic populist message standing out of side of Save
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: On Foods talking about price gouging and I think it
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: really just I mean it reminds me of the Adrian
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Diggs Weathervane ad from 2013 where they just seem kind
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: of lost and it's been surprising to me when the
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: NDP has had such a strong brand for the past
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: decade how it's kind of just collapsed and they've been
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: unable to tell a consistent story.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I was a little surprised by, to be honest with you,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the fact that Trump narrative fell so flat because it
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: had been David Eby's most popular moment to fight Trump.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And I thought he might be able to ride it
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: for longer than he did, hug the flag and all that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: And it just evaporated almost instantly upon contact with the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: real world. And also the municipal elections and the anger
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: that I think municipal candidates took to the doorstep with them,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: regardless of their political stripe, that they had been big-footed
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: by this provincial government. They became a kind of guerrilla
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: grumble campaign against the NDP at the doorstep. It was interesting,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: but it's a fascinating dynamic. I'm just going to mention
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: a couple of ridings to keep an eye on, and
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: anyone can jump in if I'm missing anything here. There
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: are so many. I think you have to look at
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: all of Surrey when you're looking for results that may
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: be at play in this election. That's the battleground, 10
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: seats there, and many of them are up for grabs
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: at this point. We're mentioning Vancouver Colchena, whether Dallas Brody
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: can survive. We're looking at Oak Bay Gordon Head, where
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Andrew Weaver has returned to politics, but for Centre BC
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: and how that changes things. The dynamic of an NDP
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: seat there. We're looking at Surrey South with Eleanor Sturco
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: on the paper. Centre BC, but a strong Conservative candidate
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: and a riding that was very strong for the Conservatives
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: in the last election. Kelowna Centre that the NDP really
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: wants to pick up. And if they're going to start
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: growing their majority, they need to win ridings like Kelowna Centre. And,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, we can go on and on.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Courtney Comox. Tight riding with different dynamics in the greens
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: at play there. The Conservatives wanting to hold that. Saanich
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: North in the islands. Can Emily Lowen get that over
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: the finish line, keep it green?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: There's so many. It's on election night, and the conversation
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: we're going to have, there are so many ridings at play,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: and I appreciate you guys all for being here and
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: for helping everyone understand the election campaign and getting us
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: to the finish line. Jeff, Jillian, and Allie, and myself.
• 21:03
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• 21:11
  Speaker 1: And get out and vote.
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  Speaker 3: Get out and vote.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Get out and vote.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Get out and vote no matter what. It's an important
• 21:17
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• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the latest in BC politics here on Political Capital.