Mr. Campbell may be messing up by people aren't going to come back to us until we prove to them that we are worthy of their support. I want to acknowledge the hard work that has been done so far. The work done by our president, Bruce Ralston, by Provincial Secretary Ed Lavalle and all the staff at Provincial Office. And of course everyone here in this room today has been working so very hard to rebuild our movement and our Party. The results are beginning to show.
Membership is up, and there is new energy among the young activists on campus.
Hundreds of students at universities and colleges around the province joined NDP clubs in the last two weeks. When I was on the campus we had all these Alberta refugees come up to say how they moved to British Columbia because they knew they could actually afford a quality education in this province. But now they're afraid that what happened in Alberta is going to happen to them here. And we couldn't really offer them any comfort - except to join us, and organize. And that's what they did.