British Columbians are practical people. They don’t expect government to solve every problem, but to focus on the things that matter: safe communities, reliable public services, and an economy that creates opportunity and a rising standard of living that lifts all boats.
Political leadership that is consumed by ideology, partisanship, and narrow appeals to issues that make not a lick of difference to quality of life, but are intend to distract and enrage do a disservice to the people and won’t make it very far. In fact, it’s part of the reason we are plagued by the same challenges year over year, decade over decade.
We need to firmly turn the page on this era, and leave it behind.