VICTORIA — Two former B.C. Conservative legislators now sitting as Independents say new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay will polarize the province.
Amelia Boultbee said Findlay’s victory on Saturday showed that part of the B.C. Conservative base and board want to take the party “further and further to the right,” and “engage in Donald Trump-style populism,” while Elenore Sturko said it was sad the party doesn’t not represent centrist voices.
Findlay won the five-person race to succeed John Rustad by the narrowest of margins, by 51 per cent to 49 per cent over Caroline Elliott after the distribution of the preferences of all the other candidates’ supporters.
Findlay is a social
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