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I think the last real populist wave in BC was when the Social Credit was in power and even then more in the early days. I find Alberta far more monocultured than BC, and I think you’ve got too much diversity throughout the province, even in the conservative regions, for any sort of populist wave to take hold.
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One difference between BC and Ontario is that BC doesn't really seem to have Toronto Sun-type tabloids. Yeah, there's the Province but it's more just Vancouver Sun lite (which is a pretty conventional center-right paper).
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I suspect the Interior has a lot of Alberta retirees and so on, but the working class there seems to have moved rightward. There's definitely a coast vs. interior split in BC.
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Except the west kootenays we are pure ndp. Just like van island.
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^^ Yes it's easy to just say that Vancouver is liberal and the rest of the province is conservative but that's not really true. As you noted the Kootenays went NDP, so did the all the coastal ridings. Looking at the ridings in the central interior, most of the conservative MP's won their seats with less than 40% of the vote, the only one to break 50% being Peace River.
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I don't think the conservatism of the interior can simply be attributed to "Albertans."
And even so, how are they deferring to "conservative Albertan values" by supporting a party always led by Vancouverites? Of course Wilkinson hasn't been tested yet, so it's hard to know how Thurston Howell III plays with the electorate. Christy Clark had the most "populist" appeal of the three most leaders of the BC Liberals (though she seemed more driven by narcissism than any ideology) - even having to run in the Okanagan to get a seat when was Premier. |
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BC Liberals are very much like the old federal PCs. The PCs don't exist in Alberta anymore (and they weren't the party of the right in the last two provincial elections there).
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Populist doesn't mean "most popular." By that definition the decisively unpopulist Gordon Campbell (basically a Mulroney-style suit) was the most populist leader of all, given that he got 57% of the vote and 77 of 79 seats in 2001.
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She did lose the "urban elite" districts of Point Grey and Fairview for the Liberals while gaining seats in the interior when she won in 2013 by presenting herself as the "hard hat" candidate. In 2017 she failed with the same strategy - but I don't know if her reduced voting coalition was that different in its composition. The main difference was suburban Lower Mainland marginals flipping to the NDP.
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Busting a gut here at all the pundits that think the only people on the right side of the spectrum in BC are migrants displaced from Alberta. Funny, that.
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Funny how a Bible-thumper like Stockwell Day did so well in BC.
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