Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦From coward #KevinFalcon's party before selling out to #Rustad and the Maple-MAGA Conservatives:
Doug Baker - Elbows Up!Best description of #KevinFalcon's part in this was "the assisted suicide of his party". I'm sure he wanted to go down in history, but not THIS way.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-united-no-candidates-2024-1.7330309
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-united-no-candidates-2024-1.7330309
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️Kevin Falcon’s Defection a Threat to Democracy
BC United campaign folded under pressure f. business special interests trying to control election
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/09/03/Kevin-Falcon-Defection-Threat-Democracy
* Falcon shut down BC United campaign unilaterally w.o. warning 7 weeks before election
Inside United-Conservative deal reshaping B.C. political landscape
https://www.biv.com/news/commentary/rob-shaw-inside-the-united-conservative-deal-reshaping-bcs-political-landscape-9450635
Behind BC United Party’s surprise move to sit out election
https://web.archive.org/web/20240830233840/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-how-the-bc-united-party-came-apart-and-what-happen-next/
MrYeastTo summarize: people in BC are perpetually unhappy with both parties, which is why they rejected proportional representation in a referendum. Twice. They are also generally unhappy with the three major federal parties, Alberta, the USA, and life in general.
Values We Really Care about Are on the Line
David Eby enters campaign mode
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/08/29/David-Eby-Interview
* Eby became premier on housing/health care/environment/public safety
* hard to see progress on long-term issues: takes time
* standard populist rhetoric f. opposition: gov. makes announcements/poor results
#Canada #BritishColumbia #NDP #DavidEby
#BCUnited #KevinFalcon #BCConservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation #SOGI #populism #rhetoric
B.C. United collapse hinged on 2 decisions
B.C. United suspends campaign, urges supporters to join w. B.C. Conservatives
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kevin-falcon-bc-united-post-mortem-1.7307831
*political scientists: Kevin Falcon's decision to boot John Rustad & changing party's name as reasons for party's collapse
* Falcon and Rustad pointedly rejected merger deal in 2024-May
#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #KevinFalcon #BCConservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia #homophobia #SOGI #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad's Anti-Scientific Views on Climate Change
Rustad expelled f. BC Liberal Party in 2022 over views on climate science
* 2020: BC Liberals won 28 seats
* poll # plummeted after leader Kevin Falcon changed party name to BC United
* confused voters; surge in support for now five-seat BC Conservatives
#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #KevinFalcon #BCConservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #homophobia #transphobia #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation
Kevin Falcon Folds, and British Columbia Voters Face a Clear Choice
Despite past warnings about B.C. Conservatives’ extremism, B.C. United quits election & backs John Rustad’s party
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/08/28/Falcon-Folds-BC-Voters-Clear-Choice
#Canada #BCelection #BCPoli #BritishColumbia #politics #BCpolitics #BCUnited #BCLiberals #KevinFalcon #BCConservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #SOGI #FarRight #RightWing #ChristianRight #education #populism #CultureWars #homophobia #transphobia #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation
For #KevinFalcon to hand his party over to a far right climate denier is an absolute disgrace, even by the standards of #BritishColumbia politics.
I was toying with voting #GreenParty this year but not anymore. Time to vote strategically.
I was toying with voting #GreenParty this year but not anymore. Time to vote strategically.
Global News BC‘They’re still the same guys’: B.C. Premier on John Rustad, Kevin Falcon amid party upheaval
"Whatever they change their name to before the election, they’re still the same guys, that did the same things, as BC Liberals that they want to do again," David Eby said.
#globalnews #Politics #DavidEby #JohnRustad #KevinFalcon
https://globalnews.ca/news/10721966/david-eby-responds-john-rustad-kevin-falcon/
"Whatever they change their name to before the election, they’re still the same guys, that did the same things, as BC Liberals that they want to do again," David Eby said.
#globalnews #Politics #DavidEby #JohnRustad #KevinFalcon
https://globalnews.ca/news/10721966/david-eby-responds-john-rustad-kevin-falcon/
