Knowing that the Lieutenant Governor will not order a new General Election if the Liberal Government loses a Vote of Confidence without having earlier won one and believing that, in the highly charged partisan atmosphere of BC’s political scene, neither the Liberals nor the NDP has enough MLAs to govern long without a further election, Clark’s long shot goal, therefore, is to 

(a) make the BC Liberal Party more attractive to swing NDP & Green voters,

(b) promote division within each & between the NDP & Greens, &

(c) somehow make those 2 Parties carry the can for ‘forcing’ the new election.

The rash of Liberal policy shifts is merely a tool designed to help achieve that goal; not a principled change of Party orientation.  BC voters correctly see the cynicism underlying these announcements.

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