Reaction is pouring in after BC NDP leader David Eby announced a snap election for Oct. 24.
Leader of the BC Greens, Emily Lowan, said in a statement that this snap election “isn’t wanted.”
“British Columbians weren’t due back at the polls until 2028 — now they’re being asked to vote early, right on top of another election,” she said.
B.C. will hold its municipal elections on Oct. 17 and now the provincial election will be held the following Saturday.
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, who is running for re-election in the municipal election, released a statement saying British Columbia has separate election cycles for a reason.
“That principle shouldn’t be set aside because the timing looks politically convenient,” Sim said.
“Let’s be frank about what a snap election costs at a time when this province is already carrying a record and growing deficit. The last one billed taxpayers more than $50 million. And if an election is coming regardless, what is the harm in waiting 25 days until Vancouver and every other community in this province has finished voting? There is no version of this where calling it now, instead of after Oct. 17, serves anyone but the governing party’s own interest.”
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Lowan said the BC NDP already have a majority and have used it to “further an agenda of managed decline through broken promises and continued inaction.
“This government has offered tough talk on (Donald) Trump, but hasn’t delivered any real support for the people and industries feeling the pain or implement plans to build a local, resilient economy that could actually withstand the next shock. If they wanted to offer that support and stability they could do so today, instead they plunged us into an election.”
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Eby said at his election announcement on Tuesday that he doesn’t think it is ever wrong to go to British Columbians to ask them what they think and what direction the party should go.
“In this moment, in this existential moment for the future of our province and the future of our country, the opportunities that are available, the cost we’ll pay to get there, ut the opportunities that are available for us to be stronger, more independent, create opportunities for families, support them through this moment. versus folding, caving, acquiescing, giving up, reducing, shrinking the impoverished America junior vision of the Conservative Party; this choice is one that should go to British Columbians,” he said.
“I obviously disagree with that conservative vision, but British Columbians deserve the choice about the direction.”
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Who cares, BC has become nothing but tree huggers, leftist brainwashed trans gender goofs. One of the provinces that is nothing without US trade.
Just another Canadian politician using Trump to their dvantage. This is getting ridiculous. Surely Canadians aren’t so stupid to fall for this again.
If BC votes this disgrace back in they are beyond hope.
He has cost the Province more debt than anyone else What an absolute waste of tax payers money.
Ohhh boy, Jay-2 is really losing it now! Another message with a million smiley emoticons. And again, no defending of the NDP or Eby, because it’s hard to defend when you have nothing to use. Too funny! I think tonight he’s going to have to splurge on two chugs – one giving it to him up the azz, and the other one sucking the hog.
Look at Jay Voorhees aka the copycat troll getting all emotional 😭😢 Seriously making fun of this NAZl clown has me in stitches LOL. I’m laughing so hard at this pathetic loser I think I’m going to start actually crying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Isn’t it funny how these brainwashed Christian/Conservative morons think they’re ‘debating’ when all they do is repeat the same biased/fabricated lies over and over again. Just like Charlie Kirk did before he got slept by the 2nd Amendment LOL 😁😆
My chug friends are going to be so dissapointed when the Cons win. Their lives were already miserable, being uneducated and never being able to live down being totally conquered by settlers. There was a spark of hope when Eby made such a collossal mistake with DRIPA, but now that’s going away when the NDP are booted. Guess it’s back to punching the bathroom stall walls until my fists are bloody. Too funny!
Look how triggered Jay Voorhees is again 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is exactly what it looks like, a politician taking blatant POLITICAL advantage of turmoil within the opposition to improve things for HIS PARTY, not the people.
I really hope that the people of BC take a moment to consider this and punish the NDP for their self-serving interest.
Don’t misunderstand, if it was aliberal, green or conservative government, I would want the same thing. Lets punish ANY government that tries to take advantage of a situation like this, and teach them to respect the greater good of the people.
Don’t forget that the NDP was the party that pushed for fixed election dates, then quickly discarded that when it didn’t serve them (shame on John Horgan for that), and are doing the same thing again.
OOOOooooOOOooo, my Jay-2 personality got seriously angry and didn’t like my last comment. You can tell because he adds all the smiley faces and calls me a “f**king loser.” He doesn’t like being told the reality of the situation with this news story and knows the NDP just made a big mistake. He sympathizes with the chugs, and probably knows the new Con government will try to reverse the DRIPA stuff that the NDP goofed up on. I think we’re ok Jay, McDonald’s isn’t going anywhere and neither are the homeless chugs who service our hog in the bathroom stall.
Why are we allowing dirty coal, transported in open cars, through our province and shipped out through delta port. Tax the hell out of that as leverage. Also who maintains the border crossing signs visible on the highway. If it is provincial jurisdiction,stop posting as Eby has directed people not to go to the US and if it is federal, then tax it
What is your plan for your “trade war”. Why couldn’t you just tell us instead of wasting so much money on an election when we have such a large debt, partially due to your administration’s incompetency. Adrian Dix and whoever else signed off on the projected royalties from the dirty, not green, natural gas should be fired or demoted. Because of your incompetency, Mr. Eby, we are forced into an expensive useless election that due to the electorate’s anger, will probably be lost
Really Doug? That’s interesting. I didn’t realize that the white settlers were illegal immigrants to Canada. I guess you learn something new everyday
Did you know in 1610 John Guy established the first permanent colony of English-speaking illegal immigrants in Canada at Cupids in Newfoundland
Conservative party….get your poop in a group so there is a strong and viable alternative!!!!! BC can’t endure another Eby/NDP term!
Look how triggered the Jay Voorhees copycat is this morning because I’m using one of his fake names. What a f**king loser 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He is just trying to distract from the huge mess he has put this province in buy blaming everything on trump.
It’s too bad this opportunist Eby is dumber than a chug on fentanyl and called a useless election nobody wanted. Municipal elections are next month too. Now he’s just p issed everyone off, lol!!! In 2 years the NDP have barely held a 5-point lead over the Cons despite the Cons’ party being in constant internal chaos. Biggest deficit in BC history, DRIPA, costs of living going up and up, healthcare quality going down and down, destroyed forestry industry, and on and on…..it’s no wonder the BC population actually decreased in 2025 for the first time in history! Bye bye Eby! You should have known what Canadians tend to do with bad parties launching early elections against another party just getting their leadership settled. hahaha
I hope this backfires on him! He is a horrible petty human.
Wipe Eby and his NDP off the map.
Remember, just because there isn’t a rule or law opposing a certain action doesn’t mean it isn’t right. We are an intelligent-enough people to know what is generally right and wrong without needing a bunch of laws to force us to behave a certain way. A majority government that is halfway through its term doesn’t need an early election. The fact that this comes immediately after the opposing party loses its leader just shows a blatant lack of respect for the voting public. We can choose to hold our government accountable when they show a lack of respect for our democracy. But more and more people choose a side, and they just want their side to win no matter what, no act is too underhanded, as long as there is no law or rule against it. Trump has unfortunately lowered the bar for all of our politicians. As long as you aren’t as bad as Trump, then you’re ok.
I hope this backfires and the people vote against him and his party to show how wrong he is. This is just wrong.
Actually Doug the French-speaking illegal immigrants in Canada started a colony in 1604. The first English-speaking illegal immigrants in Canada started a colony in 1610
Did you know in 1610 John Guy established the first permanent illegal immigrant colony at Cupids in Newfoundland
An election call at this time reeks of political opportunism…the NDP should be punished for this arrogance…vote for anyone else than Eby and the NDP party…
useless play blaming trump, its your ego that wants more seats
Eby isn’t interested in asking the people of BC what direction the party should go in he is only interested in getting 4 more years to do what he wants. If he cared about the people of BC he would cancel this election and give it the money to the people to buy food with.
6.4 billion $$ to service BCs debt in the 2026/2027 fiscal year
unreal, 2 years left in his mandate, this is not about trump, its all about you, dirtbag
Eby owns your fat white a$$ bltch
Eby is human garbage
@Doug piece of #ss wipe
It’s people like you that make me throw up my brekfoust
According to who? The Conservatives? Get the f*ck out of here. Let’s have an election now so we can put these MAGA pieces of shlt in their place and move forward with another NDP victory in BC!!