Has right’s rise primed B.C. politics for a party that breaks the binary?
Open this photo in gallery:CentreBC last week appointed Mike Bernier as its new leader. Sturko said Findlay had made it very clear with her first appointments that she favoured “far-right purity tests” over experience. The 2024 collapse of their party – which had disastrously rebranded as BC United – allowed the Conservative Party of B.C. to emerge as the main alternative to the B.C.
- ▪Open this photo in gallery:CentreBC last week appointed Mike Bernier as its new leader.
- ▪Sturko said Findlay had made it very clear with her first appointments that she favoured “far-right purity tests” over experience.
- ▪The 2024 collapse of their party – which had disastrously rebranded as BC United – allowed the Conservative Party of B.C. to emerge as the main alternative to the B.C.
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Open this photo in gallery:CentreBC last week appointed Mike Bernier as its new leader. The new party seeks to break the binary of provincial politics, but it faces multiple barriers to becoming anything more than a niche party.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian PressShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountFormer British Columbia premier Christy Clark says voters in the province face a choice between the “worst government in B.C. history” and an opposition headed by an unelectable leader.“She cannot win an election,” Clark said of Conservative Party of B.C. Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay.
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