The tide has turned on BC United. And there’s no pushing back. When I was a kid, my grandfather would sometimes take us to Canada Games Pool in New Westminster for a Saturday night swim.
One of our favourite things was when the lifeguards would organize everyone in the shallow pool to start moving in the same direction. Around and around we all went, creating a current, which kept gathering momentum and building strength. At a certain point, the current became overwhelming, and pushing against it futile.
There was no point holding out. You just had to let go and be swept along. The same phenomenon is happening in B.
C. politics. A current of strong dissatisfaction with government is sweeping the BC Conservatives forward.
BC United is trying desperately to plant its feet and find a way to buck the tide, but it’s not working, and it won’t work. Their time has passed. They’re being swept away.
I have been supporting free enterprise since I first got involved in politics and later when I was elected to council in Langley Township. And, provincially, the free enterprise voice was the BC Liberal/BC United party. I’ve worked on campaigns, given money, offered strategy, sat on party committees, given supportive media interviews, attended countless conventions and councils and barbecues, been a riding president, even vetted candidates in this very election cycle.
But I’m also a student of B.C. political history.
I know the voice for free enterprise resets every generation. .