Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Oct 20, 2024

I think this is an important aspect of #bcelxn2024 #bcpoli

In BC today it matters electorally if a politician has gained the confidence of First Nations. Prominent northern BC NDP MLA Nathan Cullen, a former MP and federal NDP leadership candidate (runner up to Jagmeet Singh), lost his race for reelection to the Conservatives. Why?

Apparently one aspect is he ran afoul with many First Nations in that region over the last term.

While I am disappointed in that result, I am glad the First Nations communities are having a real impact on the democratic process they are forced into.

If he had not lost that confidence, perhaps the result would have been 47 to 44 and his party would have a majority government.

Show threadRev.Hans Oct 20, 2024
@chris What’s your source on this? How did Cullen, a popular pol in his part of the world (& beyond) from what I’ve heard, “run afoul?” And if that’s the case, how does electing a Con (part of a crazy crew, if not one themselves) make things better? Do we now that FN votes were the difference? Or are we just seeing what we’re seeing elsewhere: the rural/urban wedge intensified/amplified as another version of culture warfare? Or simply as an expression of two solitudes?
Show threadDana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎Oct 21, 2024
@hanspetermeyer @chris for a public source, see https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/10/21/Cullen-Controversy-Political-Divisions-Northwest-BC/
Show threadRev.Hans 

@danamcfarland @chris Thank you. Seems the NDP has some problems with grassroots candidates. Not only this Cullen-related fiasco, but the coronation of Eby.
I’m glad we have a minority govt outcome here. I just wish we had Furstenau & Olsen to lead the Greens as the ones who hold this new govt accountable.

#bcpoli #bcelxn2024 #bcndp #bcgreens

Oct 21, 2024 at 5:38pmWeb