We will be 11 individuals working for the best interests of the city.”. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau, whose party propped up the NDP minority government for the past three years, called the election “completely unnecessary.” She told reporters that she met with Horgan on Friday and assured him that he had a stable government backed by her and Green MLA Adam Olsen. His answer: “Well, we’re going for a majority.”. “We do not need the cynical, self-serving, selfish move by the NDP to trigger an election right now. 's COVID-19 caseload dropped by 522 because of delayed reporting, officials say, B.C. Janet Austin met with NDP Premier John Horgan Monday morning and granted his request to dissolve the legislature and hold a general election. That poll she referred to is one released last week by Research Co., which showed 34 per cent of respondents saying they would cast a vote for Stewart and 20 per cent for Sim; a poll released Oct.11 showed Stewart at 36 per cent and Sim at 23 per cent. Horgan told a news conference from his home riding of Langford-Juan de Fuca that he struggled “mightily” with whether to call an election in the midst of a pandemic and one year before the fixed election date in October 2021. Vancouver mayor-elect Kennedy Stewart, left, celebrates with his wife Dr. Jeanette Ashe after addressing supporters in Vancouver on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. Those elected will serve for a four-year term until 2022. Evidence of that is the NPA having to compete for votes with Coalition Vancouver and Yes Vancouver — two parties with mayoral candidates who had serious interests in becoming the NPA’s mayoral candidate until one (Bremner) was rejected by the party’s board, and the other (Young) changed her mind. B.C. The election call comes with Horgan and the NDP riding high in public opinion polls and some have accused Horgan of political opportunism.
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We'll have more results on our Elections 2018 live TV special, our social media feeds and our live blog. Horgan: B.C. Advantages: Fairly smooth sailing for the term. Weekend sees 122 new COVID-19 cases per day in B.C. If the polls hold true, then Stewart will be Vancouver’s new mayor and be in charge of what could be a smorgasbord council — smorgasbord, in the sense of voters get some diversity on council. Or we can do what I believe is always the right thing and ask British Columbians what they think.”. The poll released Oct. 11 confirmed Stewart’s lead and revealed more than half of respondents (53 per cent) said they will “definitely” or “probably” consider voting for independent council candidates.

Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson criticized Horgan and the NDP for trying to secure their own employment instead of working for ordinary British Columbians. Those factors have triggered a wide-open race in what many observers have described as a “change election.” It has also meant the historical two-party mayoral race Vancouverites have become accustomed to is not in play this time.
604-873-7000. We can either delay that decision and create uncertainty and instability over the next 12 months — more speculation, more talk about what might be.

Again, a mayor only gets one vote. The poll from last week also showed Sim was only holding on to two of five residents who voted for Kirk LaPointe, the NPA’s mayoral candidate in 2014. The voting hours are staggered so that the majority of results are available at approximately the same time on election night. Voting hours at polling places for each time zone across Canada. British Columbians will go to the polls on Oct. 24 to choose the provincial government that will lead them through the COVID-19 pandemic and the next four years.

Polls are open for 12 hours across the country on election day. Peek-a-boo: Can you spot the cat hiding in this photo?

Horgan: B.C. We need to worry about the health of our families, about the school system, about employment, about whether or not we’ve got a job by Christmas time.”. The question: How do you plan to implement any of your platform if your party doesn’t win a majority? plunge overnight as recoveries surge, Nuvei closes TSX's largest technology IPO, raising $805 million in gross proceeds, Vision Vancouver will not run a mayoral candidate for first time in party’s history, Who's lined up for Island races in the B.C. And that’s where I think the toleration for this would be pretty limited, unless a group of people get together to form a coalition that effectively becomes a party so they can govern, and you’re kind of back where you started.”. For unofficial results from outside Metro Vancouver, visit the CivicInfo BC website. Business owners get FREE listings on GuidedBy.ca, The official Canucks blog of the Vancouver Courier, Celebrate Valentine’s Day with these hot City of Vancouver odes to romance, Vancouver city staff reject sanctioned homeless camps, This ‘cheese trail’ between Vancouver and Harrison let’s you plan your route, Premier John Horgan greets bystanders and addresses the media after announcing a provincial election for Oct. 24. But he ultimately felt an election was necessary to ensure that British Columbians have a stable government to deal with the challenges ahead, he said. And for those mayoral candidates knackered from the campaign, the next four years would reach a whole new level of exhaustion in the battles that will ensue in the council chamber. What the cluck? “This is not a time when we put the interest of a political party ahead of the British Columbians who need to know that we are here to serve them,” she said.

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