What's next for BC?
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- Published on Thursday, 25 May 2017 17:15
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The results are finally in. Christy Clark has lost her majority, and parties are negotiating right now to decide who will form government.
If we flood social media with support for cooperation between the NDP and the Greens, we can convince them to work together. Will you take a Cooperate for BC selfie now?
What a nail biter! It was down to the the wire, but after two days of counting absentee ballots, final results confirm that Christy Clark and the BC Liberals have lost their majority government. [1]
Now the BC NDP and the BC Greens have a historic opportunity to work together for progress on key issues from fixing our broken voting system, and stopping the Kinder Morgan pipeline, to putting the brakes on Site C, and getting big money out of our politics. We’ve never been closer to victory on these issues, but we need the Greens and NDP to work together.
The negotiating teams for both parties could decide their next move any day now, and Andrew Weaver has said that he will be trying to reach a deal with either the Liberals or NDP by next week. [2] If we flood social media with support for NDP-Green cooperation, it could help convince them to put their differences aside, and work together.
Will you take a Cooperate for BC selfie today? It's super easy: just download and print the template, write in what issue you want the NDP and Greens to work together on, take a photo of yourself with your sign, and post it to facebook or twitter. Click here to see the instructions and download the sign.
Public support for cooperation has been surging since the election. Last week, Mainstreet Research came out with a poll showing that the majority of British Columbians want the Greens and NDP to work together. [3]
On Tuesday, we delivered your petition with over 25,000 signatures calling for cooperation to BC Green MLA-elect Sonia Furstenau and BC NDP MLA Carole James.
Along with our coalition partners, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, BC Health Coalition, The $10 a day Childcare Campaign, Stand.Earth, Force of Nature, One Cowichan and The Rolling Justice Bus against Site C, we stood in front of a swarm of video cameras and reporters and made sure your message was heard loud and clear. [4]
As the new vote tallies were coming in, your hard hitting ad was seen by thousands of readers, including newly elected MLA’s, in a full page ad in Victoria’s top newspaper.
But still, cooperation between the Greens and the NDP is far from a sure thing and neither party has shown their cards for their next move. With experts saying that another election could be called within 18 months, the NDP and Greens are especially sensitive to pressure from voters.
Now is our opportunity to change the course for British Columbia so that future generations can have a more democratic voting system, a clean coast and climate, and politics void of big money influencers. If thousands of us take Cooperate for BC selfies now, we can flood social media with support for cooperation, making sure the Greens and NDP hear our simple message: it’s time to cooperate for BC!
What do you say? Will you take a photo with our sign and post it to social media so that they continue to feel the heat? Click here to download instructions for how to take action: http://we.leadnow.ca/cooperate_for_bc.
We’re in this together,
Rachel, Jolan, Lyndsay and Logan on behalf of the entire Leadnow.ca team
P.S. Don’t use social media? Just email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. your Cooperate for BC selfie and we’ll post it online for you!
[1] B.C. Liberals fall short of majority following final vote count
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/courtenay-comox-final-results-1.4129821
[2] Minority government in BC confirmed after final vote count
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/05/24/minority-government-in-bc-confirmed-after-final-vote-count.html
[3] Vote by Vote Preferred Over Coalition
http://www.mainstreetresearch.ca/vote-vote-preferred-coalition/
[4] BC Liberals maintain minority government in recount, with ballots still to count
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-liberals-maintain-minority-in-recount-with-ballots-still-to-count/article35091767/
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