Green Party Is Poised to Shift Power Balance in British Columbia<br />Andrew Weaver said that We’re attracting voters from across the political spectrum who want politics to be done differently in British Columbia,<br />The Liberals have long supported major infrastructure projects<br />that are anathema to the Green Party, including a 715-mile expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain oil pipeline, a proposed $20 billion liquefied natural gas export initiative and the controversial $7 billion Site C hydroelectric dam and power station, which Mr. Weaver had promised to cancel.<br />Voters on Tuesday handed three provincial legislative seats to the Green Party, in its best-ever electoral performance nationally,<br />denying a majority to the ruling British Columbia Liberal Party or its main opponent, the left-leaning New Democratic Party.<br />But the bitter election provides important lessons about a province hankering for new leadership amid rising costs of living, cuts to education<br />and distrust over the Liberals’ embrace of unlimited political donations, said Hamish Telford, a political-science professor at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia.<br />If the Liberals remain in a minority government, their chances of sustaining long-championed policies<br />and costly infrastructure projects vehemently opposed by the New Democrats and even more progressive Greens will be reduced.<br />The New Democrats are more ideologically aligned with the Greens,<br />but a coalition may come down to whether the Liberals are prepared to sacrifice core policies for power.<br />"It would be reckless and irresponsible of me to show my cards until that’s done." Both Ms. Clark<br />and her rival New Democratic leader, John Horgan, praised the Green Party’s performance and highlighted their intent to work with Mr. Weaver.
