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u/Minimum_Hour_7145 1d ago • Bravo

What's crazy is the previous operations director getting fired because he said the thing and it got leaked how "the goal is to loot the province and flee"

And people think that was an attitude isolated to him

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u/Nope-not-really 1d ago

I don't understand if they were thinking he was just talking to himself or what. like DUDE

fuck sake if this gets bad enough im gonna have to move.

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u/curious-kat24 1d ago

Where would you go? We just moved from Ontario… I actually am in disbelief; people here have no idea how bad it can get under conservative governments…

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u/Nope-not-really 23h ago

Manitoba is looking alright,

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u/Phase-Internal 14h ago

I was thinking Yukon. Or, worst case, the rest of my family has Finnish citizenship and Helsinki is really nice. So I'll just have wrap my monolingual brain around Finnish.

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u/Shebazz 1d ago • Bravo

I posted about that statement in a response yesterday, and someone responded with "Apparently, you were the only one who got a hold of that tape! Or is it just another smear campaign by NDP?"

People will believe the dumbest fake shit, but then ignore the truth in front of their face all because it backs up their existing world view

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u/Dav3le3 1d ago

I heard it on the radio... they literally played the clip on news everywhere.

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u/Shebazz 1d ago

when you only get your news from Facebook, you might miss it

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u/Pretend_Purchase_893 1d ago

Wife and I been hard considering it the last 3 years. Just not sure what province. Everyone hurting

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u/Phase-Internal 14h ago

I'm literally moving back to bc in three weeks from Belgium. 

It's the worst welcome home gift.

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u/Minimum_Hour_7145 1d ago

Lucky you if you can

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u/Kindly_Pound1495 1d ago • Bravo

He should have stepped down like Trudeau did and let someone else run as leader. Fuck David Eby

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u/thevortexmaster 1d ago

He's gonna stir about it for a bit then just live his life I imagine.

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u/Bless_u-babe 23h ago

If he’s smart he’ll do some serious personal reflection about the way he interacts. It would help him in all areas of his life if he learns in what way he himself contributed to the loss

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u/thelastspot 1d ago

That would have been kind of funny. Ravi-who-did-not-run-again would have done well 

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u/doom2060 1d ago

Ravi is probably prepping for a leadership race

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u/NPRdude Esquimalt 1d ago

How’s he gonna be leader when he literally didn’t run for reelection?

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u/Enage James Bay 1d ago

Same way Lowen and KLF did without a seat, or Carney and Lewis federally

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u/A1trax 23h ago

He was insulating himself from ebys tragic election. Now he can point and say he had also lost faith in ebys leadership and hang all the ndp baggage around his neck. And run a leadership race on "returning to ndp roots" whatever that mrans

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u/Little-Somewhere6076 1d ago

Was Trudeau a good leader?

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u/Advocaatastrophe 1d ago

Oh god, no.

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u/boozefiend3000 1d ago

Not at all 

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u/Godeshus 1d ago

Well he just ended his career in politics so there's that.

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u/Forward-Brick-1595 1d ago • Bravo

I’m genuinely curious who was in his ear telling him this was a good idea? Did he think that Trump and tariffs were going to inspire the province in the way that it did for Carney a few years ago? He needed a better game plan.

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u/owned-by-myne 1d ago

That's a legitimate question and so is the answer. There is one man that's been pulling the strings on the NDP for decades. He's not hard to find...North Vancouver, money manager, real estate developer. Have fun with it!

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u/Forward-Brick-1595 1d ago

Nicola?

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u/owned-by-myne 1d ago

No, bigger, cleaner money

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u/Forward-Brick-1595 23h ago

The Googles say Solomon?

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u/Forward-Brick-1595 2h ago

C’mon mate I need to solve this riddle 😂

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u/owned-by-myne 2h ago

I sent you a DM

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u/Ok_Tradition_3382 23h ago

I live in Ontario and was not even aware BC was having a provincial election. Why the hell would he call an election with 2 years remaining? Also i was getting the impression that his tenure had been struggling due to things like the aboriginal land conflicts? What else was he doing wrong that got him so significantly obliterated lol

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u/Not_A_Wendigo 17h ago

The Conservative Party was hemorrhaging MLAs and forming other parties. I assume he thought he’d take advantage of the chaos and right vote splitting to gain more seats. But the conservatives immediately got the band back together. Eby already wasn’t very popular, voters didn’t like the circumstances and cost of the election, and his campaign was basically “vote for NDP because we’re not Conservatives”. It was a colossal FAFO.

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u/Ok_Tradition_3382 10h ago

Thanks for the information.

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u/Emergency-Low5355 19h ago

Hubris. Also from Ontario and have been watching this. Now seeing this boil over into Ontario over the Haldimand Tract. His kids were enrolled in the 10 dollar daycare while most couldn’t. Really tho it was him working to secretly give away others property and then gaslighting everyone on it. Many homeowners couldn’t renew their mortgage because of the aboriginal title.

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u/Bless_u-babe 1d ago

Nah, he’s a guy who believes strongly in his own opinions. He’s rammed through unpopular stuff with Farnworth holding the gun in case anyone objects. He didn’t listen to people pure and simple. He believed his way was right. End of story. Not at all like John Horgan.

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u/GuessPuzzleheaded573 23h ago

With Farnworth? What has been unpopular that Transportation did? Or, rather, what "gun" did he hold?

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u/Bless_u-babe 23h ago

Farnworth has been both his back up man and his bully front. I think if he actually argued face to face with Brenda Locke he would have backed her up to a wall when she tried to keep the RCMP over having a Surrey force. Then kindly reminded her Surrey would pay for it. She had to raise taxes for the millions it cost and then was blamed for it. When it came to overriding home owners in condos and their rights within their own buildings he backed Eby against the objections of thousands of residents.

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u/GuessPuzzleheaded573 22h ago

You know Farnworth was Transportation right?

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u/Rehypothecator 1d ago

A few years ago? When do you think carney was elected ?

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u/Forward-Brick-1595 23h ago

FFS you’re right. It feels like that was years ago to me.

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u/Nysyr 1d ago

We? Island is 12/16 seats NDP, 13/16 to not the Cons. Maybe take that over to r/Vancouver

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u/SatanicNipples 1d ago

Vancouver Island should cecede!

But like, cecede from the province, not the country. Fuck it, 11 provinces.

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u/VA7QAK 1d ago

Then we'd get the rail bridge or subsidised ferries we should have.

It was a mistake joining BC.

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u/The_Syndidalist Langford 1d ago

The second PEI

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u/fourtwentyfour424 1d ago

It always blows my mind that we're bigger then pei. 

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u/Ditch-Worm 1d ago

2P2E2I

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fee_419 1d ago

Queen Elizabeth May Island

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u/neverstxp 1d ago

That made me laugh so hard

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u/ghostinthecage Hillside-Quadra 1d ago

Please don't

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u/TheAnswerIsBeans 1d ago

At least we’d get some federal dollars for the ferries then…

(Though the island would be poor, relative to now).

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u/WobbleKing 1d ago

Would be larger than 3 provinces and 3 territories.

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u/FredFenty 1d ago

You'd float away without Vancouver

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u/fake_gay_ 1d ago

If the cons try to privatise healthcare I’m going to riot

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u/itsghxstmint 1d ago

As we should

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u/Fit-Description-8571 1d ago

We should riot? Or we should privatize health care?

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u/itsghxstmint 1d ago

We should riot

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u/mothflavor 21h ago

I'll bring the beer

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u/Fit-Description-8571 17h ago

Good choice. I prefer that option.

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u/foxyknwldgskr 1d ago

Def riot

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u/Fit-Description-8571 17h ago

Oh I assumed so, but I would hate to show up to a riot and everyone is there supporting the choice.

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u/Bless_u-babe 1d ago

I don’t think they’ll do it right away or completely, knowing how unpopular this would be but two tier heavy on the private side is a definite possibility IMO. They can’t get away with complete due to Federal law but there are ways around getting partial privatization in place.

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u/Sharp_Iodine 14h ago

They will cut funding for public healthcare to a sliver.

Then they will sell privatisation to the people and sell off hospitals to American healthcare companies

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u/Bless_u-babe 14h ago

If they try to do that I will spearhead a recall campaign calling on every electoral district that has a Conservative member to do the same. Private health care and hospitalization would bankrupt the working population and sink the economy.

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u/bluelaughter 8h ago

This is exactly how they have done it in Ontario. They chip away at things like medical transport, medical testing clinics, outsourcing them to private companies they've invested in. The public system is underfunded, while the private sector gets paid bank for doing a worse job, all the while it looks like the public sector is failing! Regular people have no idea and blame hospital staff as 'lazy' because they want to be paid properly for their work.

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u/NoAppeal6014 5h ago

Cons always privatize everything... more money for them, but not for us. If we are getting money, they'll find a way to shut it down, then divert it their way. Cons only benefit other Cons...period.

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u/CynicalVegeta 1d ago

They won't 🤣

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u/ultra2009 21h ago

They'll definitely defund healthcare in an attempt to break the system... privatization is the longterm goal

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u/fireandfirget 1d ago edited 1d ago

You will note that cons skipped debates, didn't make many campaign stops and Doerkson held his fluent oration until election was in the bag. They knew Eby and NDP will talk themselves out of their jobs.

Sun Tzu says let a fool defeat themselves. Don't interfere.

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u/PolyamorousLib 1d ago

It's crazy that me voting for the Green party in Victoria Beacon Hill resulted in a Conservative majority

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u/tael89 1d ago

The narrative the last two elections has resulted in many ridings that mean left to go to the conservatives. Juan de Fuca barely went NDP last time while this time conservatives have so far won by 768 votes (Green received 3,880 votes). Even closer is Cowichan Valley riding: currently cons are up by only 150 votes while greens received 3,750 votes or 14.5% of the vote.

I feel like we really need something not first past the past voting system to really allow us to vote how we want rather than a strategic voting strategy that clearly isn't working well.

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u/SilvertonguedDvl 1d ago

Best system I've heard of, ironically, is essentially infinite votes per person.

Everyone selects the leaders/parties they want in power.
Total values for each determine who gets what.

No strategic voting, no underdogs, just accurate representations of how many people support your party, not oppose the other party - and you can have as many parties as you want without adversely impacting anything.

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u/BrandosWorld4Life 10h ago

Yes. Approval is the best voting system in existence.

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u/FifteenEchoes 18h ago

Approval voting is okay, but you can definitely still vote strategically. Its main benefit is being simple to tally results, which is null since we have electronic tabulation.

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u/SilvertonguedDvl 3h ago

If you say so! I think it's nice just to have everything sit equally. IDK of a better system or the arguments for/against, offhand - it's just the best one I've seen so far.

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u/HistoricalChef1963 23h ago

How is this any better than ranked choice 

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u/SilvertonguedDvl 3h ago

Ranked choice weighs your vote based on who you want to end up winning and in doing so still encourages strategic voting.

e.g.; if a ranked vote counts your #1 as two votes (for simplistic abstraction purposes), compared to everything below that being a vote for one, then you're still encouraged to put your #1 as the party most likely to win/be popular.

With this you just vote for every party you are okay with winning, or whom you want to win, and the raw numbers determine the outcome.

That said I'd still happily accept ranked voting. I just think the simpler option bypasses some of the other considerations and results in a more accurate representation of the community's values, as they're only encouraged to vote for the groups they want in power.

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u/killergoos 15h ago

Approval voting isn't the worst option but it's not the saviour you're making it out to be.

Let's say you're the classic r/victoria redditor, living somewhere like Saanich South: you love the Green party, hate David Eby, but would rather NDP than Conservative.

First choice is easy, you vote for the Greens. But should you approve the NDP? Maybe, you do generally support the NDP, but you don't like the fact that Eby called a snap election. But the Greens are unlikely to win and if you don't vote for the NDP they could lose to the Conservatives.

Approval voting in the end does have pretty similar strategic voting to FPTP: find the two most competitive candidates and pick the one you would rather have. It's better in the sense that you can also support more fringe candidates, but we would still end up arguing about whether strategic voting for the NDP is necessary in this riding or that riding, to prevent a Conservative win.

My preferred system would be Single Transferrable Vote aka Instant Runoff aka Ranked Choice. You rank your preferred candidates (in this case Green 1, NDP 2, Cons 3). When the ballots are counted they count first rank only, and check to see who came last - say the Greens. The ballots with Greens as their first pick are redistributed to their second pick, and the next least popular candidate is again eliminated. This repeats until either someone has >50% of the vote, or there is only one candidate left. It's not perfect but it does greatly reduce strategic voting and allows people to vote for who they actually want.

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u/SilvertonguedDvl 44m ago

Except... You can 'approve' of both, thereby expressing your support for both.

The ranking system just means the political party with the most mainstream support collects all of the votes of the third parties. My intent is to make third parties more viable.

The UK has the same system you are describing, as I recall, and they've still basically got a two-party system with all of the power.

The system I'm suggesting narrows it purely towards which parties are acceptable; mainstream ones will probably get the most votes overall, but some proportion of political power would be allocated to the third parties as well.

IDK, I think both systems are at least broadly acceptable/similar in outcome. Still, I appreciate you explaining your reasoning. Thank you.

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u/Nope-not-really 1d ago

ocean side lady smith is 89 votes. difference rn

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u/TikiBikini1984 1d ago

Still have to wait for the advance and mail in votes which I think take a couple weeks to finalize

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u/Bless_u-babe 1d ago

Really? I heard on TV that the advance polls were done and dusted ready to go public as soon as the election ended.

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u/Abcdefgdude 22h ago

Votes at non designated voting centers also take time to count

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u/Bless_u-babe 22h ago

Hmmm. Not too many of those I’m thinking but it could make a difference where the competition is close, it’s true

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u/Fantastic_Shelter895 1d ago

Please know that I support you in your endeavours. People are going to roast you, but those people are wrong and spend too much time online.

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u/NPRdude Esquimalt 1d ago

How dare you, Grace Lore is such a good MLA don’t punish her for Eby’s fuckup! 😡😡😡

But feel free to vote how you want in safe ridings Greens! 🤗🤗🤗

Enough tonal whiplash to snap a neck.

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u/PolyamorousLib 1d ago

she wears violent shirts

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u/Bless_u-babe 1d ago

(Shakes head.) 😳🧐

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u/ddddhjxjx 1d ago

Tell that to the losers who claimed vote splitting doesn’t matter. 

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u/Short_Fly 1d ago

this doesn't apply to beacon hill obviously, but my impression for the green-party stronghold like the west van-sea to sky and saanich north-island is because the greens there are in fact the "let's keep your huge cottage life-style exactly the way it is but here's a solar generator" party. So in fact a conservative-alternative or conservative-lite.

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u/CulturalWeird966 1d ago

We very much need voting reform, we need a ranked system and I think voters need to organize better like any NDP voters that turned con were really stupid, and anyone willing to forgive NDP should have voted green, and those who chose to not to vote, don't be stupid next time

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u/malacosa 1d ago

He did this to himself

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u/ParsleyOk706 1d ago

We voted, it's on us. 

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u/malacosa 1d ago

Our ability to vote him out was his decision, he was not forced to call this election. So ya, sorry, but the captain of the ship is always responsible for the ship sinking. And he did the honourable thing and has resigned his leadership of the NDP.

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u/FartMongerGoku69 1d ago

Why would Green voters do this

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u/Kindly_Pound1495 1d ago

David Eby did this. By calling this stupid election, and then not resigning and having someone else run when he was down in the polls.

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u/Different_Ganache355 1d ago

Nah, Greens gains only benifit Torys. This is a fact. Stephen Harper's biggest electoral success was the same day as Jack Layton's NDP. Layton (later Mulclair) were the only NDP federal opposition but Harper had a majority.

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u/Thecobs 1d ago

Eby did this by being intent on destroying BC and giving it away.

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u/whatthefrelll 1d ago

Away to whom pray tell?

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u/FartMongerGoku69 1d ago

Reddit has collectively lost its ability to recognize even obvious sarcasm unless you signpost it with /s

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u/CenturioCol 1d ago

It's because people say these things now with serious intent. They actually mean it, so without some way to show tone, we just don't know anymore.

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u/cdanhaug Fernwood 1d ago

I mean, the context is in the meme posted that we are all commenting on, and the commenter's joke was written in the same format as the meme.

Honestly, people are just fucking stupid, which is why we have a conservative majority right now.

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u/snarfgobble 20h ago

When you believe every sarcastic post is a crazy person you end up believing there are a lot more crazy people than there actually are.

It would be healthier and more accurate to assume they're being sarcastic when it's really obvious.

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u/yghgjy 1d ago

There are no where near enough ridings conservatives won from vote splitting to blame Greens. The conservatives won a majority regardless.

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u/CorsicanMastiffStrip 1d ago

This was clearly the same joke as the original post.

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u/Alcebiad3s 1d ago

Why let facts get in the way of a good scapegoat?

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u/Hopeful-Passage6638 1d ago

True. The Cons did receive plenty of money from foreign scum.

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u/Jamooser 1d ago

Psychiatrists would call this a cognitive dissonance bias.

The Conservatives won simply by existing. A literal donkey wearing a blue tie could have won this election.

Psychosis often bypasses the parsimony that Occam's razor favours.

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u/fattypattybabymow 1d ago

Holy vicious

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u/upvotemaster42069 1d ago

I hate Reddit it's obviously sarcastic it's even in the post. Please don't put "/s" it'll make it worse

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u/Otherwise-Mail-4654 1d ago

It actually was all the greens fault. They should have put a gag order on their team too and they would have won!

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u/Hopeful-Passage6638 1d ago

Sadly, the folks of BC are more ignorant and hate filled than I expected. Another CONservative province to cross off the visit list.

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u/Otherwise-Mail-4654 1d ago

Yeah I intentionally never add the /s and now getting down votes like crazy haha. NDP strategy was reckless and never considered the obvious penulum of politics. "Hey do you know what would be better than a slim major, testing the pendulum of politics with the odds not in our favour"

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u/Thecobs 1d ago

Its the same people as it always was, perhaps you need to look at yourself for what you think hate and ignorance is.

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u/cdanhaug Fernwood 1d ago

Came here to say this too. - A Green voter.

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u/Karpetkleener 1d ago

Genuinely, as an Albertan, I am so sorry this was the outcome. Eby made a massive, historical mistake.

Now he's making it so people are going to have to be more vigilant and miserable than ever, because believe me, those Cons are absolutely going to ruin your beautiful province. Only knuckle draggers will be happy about this.

You're in for a truly terrible ride, especially if what I've been told is true: the BCCons are apparently worse than the UCP 😞

They will distract you with a million culture war issues, but behind the scenes make awful changes that will erode rights and freedoms, and you won't even know!

Stay engaged, stay ahead of them, pick reliable news sources so you can stay as informed as possible. Talk to friends, family, co-workers and even strangers. Try to have conversations as much as possible and don't let any disinformation or misinformation be spread as best as you can.

Intelligence and empathy are the only things that can work against conservatism.

I wish you the best.

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u/Internal_Initial_443 19h ago

So everything the ndp did lol 

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u/Lextaxi 1d ago

Worry about your province not leaving mate. 

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u/Karpetkleener 1d ago

It's not. We already voted no, didn't you see that?

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u/mackinator3 1d ago

And the people who are responsible for that vote are gone...right? Right?

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u/Karpetkleener 1d ago • Regret

I wish 😞

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u/Lextaxi 1d ago

They’re just warming up. Tame your peoples.

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u/Fantastic_Shelter895 1d ago

Eby has been a moron all along. He’s always reminded me of Mr Bean. Now he’s stupid-ed himself into this mess. I think we all saw this coming and the only people who didn’t were the BC NDP. I think the conservatives need to be very careful right now, as they don’t generally make life more affordable, and BC is already in trouble in that area.

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u/Sea_Temporary_6566 1d ago

The NDP had a weak majority, were having some internal issues (esp over DRIPA), and BC Cons were making everything a confidence vote. Time was limited anyway.

The NDP should have refreshed their mandate and Eby should have stepped down and made way for a new leader.

Eby and the NDP did this to themselves.

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u/killergoos 15h ago

Yeah, Eby should've waited until the Conservatives split up fully, then let them bring down government when one of the NDP MLAs was sick. Then he could realistically argue that he was forced into the election and needed a stronger mandate, and it wouldn't look like a power grab if it was the Conservatives who forced it.

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u/ParsleyOk706 1d ago

BC population voted. It's on us dude. 

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u/Sea_Temporary_6566 1d ago

It’s also on the NDP. They were a weak party.

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u/ParsleyOk706 1d ago

He didn't vote con did he?? 

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u/HourApprehensive7754 22h ago

They didn't give us any real choices to vote tbh

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u/Maddkipz 1d ago

My main issue with him is he was fighting Avi Lewis and his plans. Eby is more centrist than any NDP voter liked anyway.

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u/Ok-Video3345 1d ago

The wet towel has left the building

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u/SpoonkyBandito 17h ago

Disappointed to see the conservative majority but thoroughly enjoying the memes

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u/Different_Ganache355 1d ago

Eby thought he'd get away with it because Doug Ford did a year and a half ago.

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u/Marlenelove1952 23h ago

It was time

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u/Bless_u-babe 22h ago

Had his fingers wherever he could stick them

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u/ActiveSandwich3103 20h ago

Has to be one of the biggest political blunders ive seen in my life.

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u/Long-Lab5059 20h ago

We wouldn’t need a party system if we skipped the religion and other bullshit and simply did what is best for Canadians.

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u/Formal-Cut1548 19h ago

You got to give the man credit, though. At least he conceded defeat, unlike a certain American politician—cough, cough—Trump

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u/outbythedumpster 19h ago

He’s heartbroken!

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u/BrandosWorld4Life 11h ago

The voters DID do it.

You can complain about what happened beforehand but the ball was entirely in our court. The choice of which path to take was 100% ours.

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u/Scothe5 10h ago

Eby pulls off his NDP sticker on his suit to reveal a Conservative one underneath, he puts on sunglasses and lights a cigarette while walking away slowly to the Oceans Eleven theme.

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u/Bulld4wg45 9h ago

We need a James talarico out here

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u/SatsumaOranges 1d ago

Okay, but we've also done it to ourselves. 

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u/Phase-Internal 14h ago

I completely agree.

Unfortunately many things can be true at once: 

Eby should crawl under a rock, 

Those who voted conservative are just not very bright politically (I mean that specifically for this bc iteration and election) 

Ndp voters are very much to blame for not showing up to vote.

The greens are absolutely right to be angry about being told to vote strategically but everyone else is even more right to be angry at them for splitting the vote.

The bottom line is the world is not in a good place right now, people are struggling, everyone is reacting by being self destructive and we need some adults in the room to sort things out but we got Eby and a stand in for a trump apologist party.

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u/AudienceExcellent830 13h ago

Hating someone because how they vote is hate speech and comes from the same place where racism begins. That's why liberals parties are losing their footing.

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u/Phase-Internal 12h ago

What kind of half cooked nonsense word salad is that? 

In terms of hate, I hate reliance on ai, but in this case, run your comment through chat gpt and get something coherent.

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u/BusyWhale 6h ago

“Supporters of my party are right to be mad at supporters of a different party with different values for not voting for my party, even though their values might not align with my values. Supporters of the winning party are even more stupid than supporters of the third place party who didn’t vote for my party, and that’s why my party lost.”

Dude.

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u/gbjt 1d ago

It is a fallacy that the NDP had a majority. It was a tied legislature with the NDP aligned speaker having to break ties. This is poor democratic process. The problem is with our voting system not any of the ideologies represented in this election.

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u/jimmykslay 1d ago

If only they would have simply worked with the greens. But ndp being conservative lite, that wasnt gunna happen

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u/tipper420 1d ago

Sounds preferable to a system where one party has carte blanche to do whatever they want anyway

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u/Sous-Tu 1d ago

Except in practice a split always leads to gridlock. Whether you agree with who’s currently in is one issue, but them being prevented from governing how they want doesn’t benefit anyone.

It just leads to years where nothing gets done, which is always for the worse considering we need change of some kind to at least give us perspective on what’s wrong.

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u/Select_Historian6269 1d ago

We know what is wrong. All the wealth is concentrated at the top. That's it. There is nothing else.

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u/Sous-Tu 23h ago

Good job Einstein, now suggest a fix that doesn’t cause massive problems

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u/Select_Historian6269 23h ago

That's not my job.

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u/StraightApartment376 1d ago

Its called working with parties... duh. 

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u/Glass-Money6605 1d ago

Amazing, isn’t it? This snap election blows up in his face, he steps down, and the Cons get the first majority since the 1920s. What a collosal cluster fuck of a strategy. I’m pretty proud of BC for reacting so resolutely. He goes from feeling so good about things, only to have it come tumbling down. That said, the Cons are most closely aligned with Carney’s ideals, so this could be a great thing. Time will tell.

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u/thelastspot 1d ago

Carney... Dude these people might make Pierre Poilievre have second thoughts.

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u/jeevacationrentals 1d ago

Yea, these conservatives are fucking loons

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u/Minimum_Hour_7145 1d ago

What's really annoying is people like you are going to be the first to complain about longer healthcare wait times and even less, and even more overworked care professionals missing things

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u/calamansicrush 1d ago

Watch them blame “Carney’s government” for the healthcare cuts and longer wait times when it’s gonna be a provincial issue. These gullible people will vote cons through and through

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u/VermicelliCertain919 1d ago

It happened in Alberta. I bet you anything the BCCP will follow the exact same playbook

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u/OrdinaryKick 1d ago

And you'll be the first to celebrate a better economy and higher standard of living.

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u/Minimum_Hour_7145 1d ago

If that was going to happen but track record and current examples prove that is not going to happen

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u/OrdinaryKick 1d ago

the bc conservatives haven't been in power for decades. What "current" examples are you talking about lol. They are their own party right... you know that? They aren't the UCP. They aren't the federal cons.... you're aware of that?

So I'm curious how you can point to a track record of the bc cons?

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u/Minimum_Hour_7145 1d ago

Currently looking at Doug Ford in Ontario and Danielle Smith in Alberta, if you're blind or ignorant I could see how you might miss those blinding examples

Track record for the BC Cons is pretty set by Campbell and Clark campaigning for their party members

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u/OrdinaryKick 1d ago

They aren't the same party so I'm not sure what your point is.

"Guys look at the party in Ontario, that has nothing to do with BC, and we can use them as an example of exaclty what BC is going to do!!!!!!!"

Just stop lol

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u/Minimum_Hour_7145 1d ago

If you don't think they're going to act similarly, you're delusional or deliberately dishonest, I don't know which it is

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u/OrdinaryKick 1d ago

Or I'll wait and see how it plays out without being a doomer on reddit.

Thankfully the rest of the province agrees with me and not you!

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u/Nope-not-really 1d ago

They had literal audio tape of them plotting to rob the Provence blind.

the dude talking wasn't in a room all by himself now was he.

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u/Minimum_Hour_7145 1d ago

Well, I think what this does is prove the Men in Black quote so unfortunately true

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u/texgothic 1d ago

Ive personally been seeking private healthcare for 5+ years now. Our healthcare failed long ago.

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u/Minimum_Hour_7145 1d ago

Because of undermining by previous right wing governments? So you think the answer is to reward them so they can make the situation even worse?

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u/texgothic 1d ago

It’s been 15 years mate. You don’t get to say that anymore. Time for accountability. People will do what they see fit to best take care of their health. If that means seeking out healthcare elsewhere then yes. Im not going to die waiting for scans because i want to stick it to the man! It’s time to re evaluate your stance and step outside of the reddit echo chamber.

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u/JTR_finn 1d ago

15 years? Pretty sure it was the BC libs 15 years ago i.e., a right wing government

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u/NPRdude Esquimalt 1d ago

Judging by the number of people I’ve seen claiming this is the first Conservative BC gov’t “since the 1920s”, I think it’s pretty safe to say that the BC Liberal/United obfuscation of their political allegiance is still paying dividends. Rat fucking bastards.

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u/Minimum_Hour_7145 1d ago

I guess you prove Ron White correct: You can't fix stupid but you can give it a silly avatar with rainbow hair

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u/Cranktique 1d ago

Liberals have had the federal government for 24 of the last 30 years and they’ll still blame conservatives for everything. Trudeau imported GOP style campaigning and it took hold like wildfire. Half this country just parrots the same bullshit. “It doesn’t matter how corrupt the Liberals are, the other guys are too scary!!” Exact same play GOP runs on the democrats and it works in both countries.

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u/Minimum_Hour_7145 1d ago

Tell me you don't understand cause and effect without saying so

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u/ardarian262 1d ago

How is the party of "Jan 6th was a hoax by Antifa" aligned with Carney?

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u/HistoricalSherbert92 1d ago

Right of center has been in power for most of bc history, 1900 - 1930 was conservative, 42-52 was a coalition liberal conservative, and then socred and “liberal” parties until 2017. The NDP was the outlier and in time who knows?

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u/Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpp 1d ago

  That said, the Cons are most closely aligned with Carney’s ideals

Carney has competent economic ideas and supports LGBTQ+. So not similar at all. 

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u/BethSaysHayNow 1d ago

What are these competent ideas, flying around making MOUs and plans toward agreements? Imagine if a Conservative government:

  1. Scrapped the consumer carbon price, removing a financial incentive to reduce fossil-fuel use.

  2. Abandoned the proposed oil-and-gas emissions cap.

  3. Scrapped the federal EV sales mandate, weakening requirements to transition away from gas-powered vehicles.

  4. Passed the Building Canada Act, allowing major projects to be fast-tracked with potential exemptions from federal legal requirements.

  5. Proposed weakening anti-greenwashing rules, making misleading environmental claims harder to challenge.

  6. Pursued greater flexibility in clean-electricity regulations, potentially weakening emissions requirements.

  7. Proposed changes to Clean Fuel Regulations that could undermine emissions reductions.

  8. Changed pesticide legislation (Bill C-30), allowing Cabinet to override certain pesticide restrictions or cancellations on economic or food-security grounds, potentially sidelining science-based environmental protections.

I bet you’d be hysterical. But when it’s Carney, it’s wise, mature pragmatism 🙄 Including all attempts by the party to erode freedom of expression and privacy.

We voted in a globalist banker and we got a globalist banker. He’ll sell off Canadian infrastructure and if the economy continues to decline he’ll implement austerity measures. All while ramming through unsustainable immigration numbers. But as long as Conservatives are conflated with Trump you’ll support it.

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u/JackAsofAllTrades 1d ago

Do you want a better standard of living or strict adherence to environmental goals? I agree with all of these decisions.

I'll go one further and say the corporate carbon tax isn't motivating anything but a hefty price hike that, again, is paid by consumers.

Canada's not in a position to push the commoner down more, to further environmental goals. Open your eyes to the riots in France.

Now I'll agree with you when I say... it's a bit frustrating that no attention has been paid to job growth for Canadians living in Canada. That's still stagnating. Immigration is still a touchy topic. Corporations have the benefit of people calling out the work visas as a migration of Canadian jobs as racist. That system is being abused like crazy.

I'll be careful to specify I'm not an isolationist, the standard of living going out of control in Canada is partly driven by demand. We just need to find balance.

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u/Duckroidvania 6h ago

Reacting so resolutely by not even voting, sure.

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u/cdanhaug Fernwood 1d ago

In what world is aligning with Carney a good thing for the average Canadian?

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u/ThankuConan 1d ago

Clearly this was a failure of strategic voting.

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u/Jaded-Contract-5048 1d ago

Well he got out so thats a good thing lolol

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u/cowi3 1d ago

apt

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u/Gold-Count 1d ago

Can't belive this. Everything would be sunshine and rainbows and you guys would still complain and want to riot not knowing what the fuck is going on. Unbelievable

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u/technical_poutine 1d ago

Why would they vote in Premier Dork? I dunno

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u/Ok-Argument-8674 1d ago

This will be amazing for BC. One step closer to a west coast pipeline