BC Political Discussion: Election 2024 & 43rd Parliament

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Justin Mcelroy, on sabbatical from the CBC has a post about the recent election on his substack:

https://justinmcelroy.substack.com/p/10-thoughts-about-the-bc-election

In their first term in office, the NDP did a lot of big things. In their second term, the NDP expanded on a lot of those same things, did a U-Turn on decriminalization and autism funding and a new museum, and otherwise kept it pretty status quo.

If you want, you can write off 2021 and most of 2022 due to the government in pandemic mode and Horgan resigning.

But David Eby spent the last two years trying to show British Columbians that he could run a competent government, eschewing chances to call an election in early 2023 when they were handing out billions of dollars from the previous year’s surplus, or in early 2024 when they faced a divided opposition.

Which was a choice.

So after all that, what specific new accomplishments did he run on?

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After the last election, the party had a giant mandate and tons of political and fiscal room to maneuver. Today, if they survive, they’re looking it being one or two votes away from an election, big deficits forecasted, a soured mood among the electorate, having already changed course on decriminalization and the carbon tax, waiting for their housing reforms to have a measurable impact on supply, and the strong possibility of a new federal government soon that will be a heck of a lot less simpatico with them.

Nobody knows what will happen next.

But what a difference four years can make.