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Doesn't matter what colour the horse is, it's the same stuff coming out either end.
Will the BC Liberals go for Diane Watts, another MILF-in-charge? She was popular in Surrey, though I still wonder why Surrey, with all it's population and contrubutions to transit, still has about 2 kilometres of skytrain line, considering how much is in Coquitlam and New West and Richmond and Burnaby. Doesn't look like she puts her constituent's interests ahead of all others.
Dianne Watts, who I do not particularly like, brought an arrogant, runaway RCMP depot under municipal control, and by inserting herself into "the establishment" in often Trump like ways has turned most of Surrey in a very respectable community. She also, it is said, has gotten control of debt and overspending which makes her attractive to the conservative side of the BC Liberals.
I would say she has about as much chance as anyone else, however much will be made she's a convert from the Conservatives, who just got their incumbent asses ripped in a by-election federally. Trudeau actually knocked on doors for the cause. Who the Liberals elect is important, but it isn't. With Horgen's approval of Site C, he as moved into BC"s beautiful "sweet spot", right in the middle of business, labour and climate groups. The climate groups will gulp that one down as they have to continue to back the NDP. But once tasted, the cum of compromise one is more likely not to balk the second time.
ANd site C is the ideal compromise as in the end, the environment will look the same and we will have 212 years of renewable energy. Moderates find that as the perfect compromise.
BC is Liberal now. Cristy got the axe for the same reason Harper is a forgotten name, they went too far to a right wing that look like the US. Having lost her chief strategy advisor to Trudeau, she erred and decided a surplus or a balanced budget was the path to votes. Her people had failed to properly assess the Harper catastrophe, did not learn that Canadians right now want SPENDING.
So, I don't see the Liberals, ironically enough, close enough to the center to mean much more than official opposition. The site "C" decision has calmed everyone, we have a mega project, steel workers, loggers, miners, construction workers will all have jobs, and we have moved as far away from American ideolog, a left wing socialist government propped up by the "GASP!" Green Party everyone is comfortable.
John Horgan has at least two years to show what he can do, with such a small unemployment rate no one will be thinking change for awhile.
As to Watts, I don't see her carrying the interior the way Cristy did. Suspect places like the Peace and the Sushwap will balk at another one..whatever they define that "one" to be.