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Originally Posted by Firebrand
Remember that the NDP has a habit of building infrastructure specifically to pander for votes. The Millennium Line is a perfect example of this. It was built through NDP ridings in Burnaby. Most of Surrey were—and still are—BC Liberal ridings. The Expo extension to Surrey in 1994 was only in the Surrey-Whalley district, which was NDP.
The Pattullo replacement downgrade is possibly due to its New West riding. New West has been NDP (with the exception of the 37th Parliament) since 1963. It doesn’t want to lose it like it lost Kamloops to the Liberals.
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I'm not sure you actually know what you're talking about. "Most of surrey were--and still are--BC Liberal ridings" is wrong. Surrey has nine ridings, six NDP and three Liberal.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Pattullo replacement downgrade" either, because it hasn't been downgraded. The plan all along was to replace it with a four-lane bridge, when New West, Surrey, and TransLink agreed upon that a couple of years ago. The province is building exactly what those three parties want, there's no downgrade there anywhere. And New West is going to vote NDP regardless of the Pattullo, it's as safe an NDP riding as they get.
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