# Cons Can Crazy Candidate | Political Capital Daily

An episode of [Political Capital with Rob Shaw](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1553146808), 9 Oct 2026, 20 min.

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Oct. 9, 2026 BC Conservatives fire their Victoria-Beacon Hill candidate, and the party leaders duel over ICBC versus tax cuts. Nicole Brassard joins the show. Watch Rob on CHEK TV weeknights. Read more: www.robshawnews.com — Political Capital Daily is presented by: Airbnb Your daily briefing on B.C. politics — from inside the legislature

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[0:59] Speaker 1: Political Capital Daily. Welcome to Friday. Oh my god, been
[1:19] Speaker 1: waiting for it all week long. It is here, the
[1:21] Speaker 1: end of another week in BC politics and a political
[1:24] Speaker 1: capital double shot day. We got the Prime show coming
[1:27] Speaker 1: up later on YouTube this afternoon. And of course, the
[1:30] Speaker 1: Daily Show this morning with Nicole Broussard. Nicole, how are
[1:35] Speaker 1: you doing? Thanks for being here and coming back after
[1:37] Speaker 1: last week's show.
[1:38] Speaker 2: So early yeah you haven't even talked about dog shit
[1:40] Speaker 2: yet in the intro so that's.
[1:45] Speaker 1: That's true i try to keep it classy on fridays
[1:48] Speaker 1: you know i feel i feel good like think of
[1:51] Speaker 1: how long ago monday was in politics a lifetime a
[1:55] Speaker 1: lifetime ago so we got it we got through another
[1:58] Speaker 1: week uh be busy next week too we got a
[2:01] Speaker 1: tv leaders debate and all sorts of stuff so Enjoy
[2:05] Speaker 1: your weekend while you can, everybody. If you're looking to
[2:09] Speaker 1: plan your Friday, we have BC Conservative leader Lauren Dirksen
[2:13] Speaker 1: in Coquitlam at 11 o'clock for a policy announcement. And
[2:17] Speaker 1: we have the Greens' Emily Lowens canvassing on Salt Spring Island.
[2:21] Speaker 1: No policy announcements from the Greens. The NDP, once again,
[2:25] Speaker 1: who knows? They only announced these things at the very
[2:28] Speaker 1: last second.
[2:30] Speaker 3: Okay, Nicole.
[2:31] Speaker 1: We're going to talk on the top here about the
[2:34] Speaker 1: kind of like dueling sort of tax cut versus rate
[2:39] Speaker 1: freeze framing that's going on here in the campaign. Lauren
[2:42] Speaker 1: Dirksen promising $ 1, 000 personal income tax rebate by basically kind
[2:47] Speaker 1: of raising the exemption threshold from $ 13, 000 to $ 32, 000, the
[2:50] Speaker 1: part where you don't pay any taxes on your first
[2:55] Speaker 1: amount of income. And David Eby responding with a promise
[2:58] Speaker 1: of a three-year period rate freeze on icbc which would
[3:02] Speaker 1: be seven years plus three months it's almost like 10
[3:06] Speaker 1: years of rate freeze uh on icbc if he's re-elected
[3:10] Speaker 1: and successful on that two different types of affordability measures
[3:14] Speaker 1: how do you think they they both sort of landed.
[3:16] Speaker 2: Yeah it is funny because it seems like the campaigns
[3:18] Speaker 2: are maybe sharing notes about what announcements are going to
[3:21] Speaker 2: take place that day because it was a very similar
[3:22] Speaker 2: week like day after day we kind of saw a
[3:24] Speaker 2: tit for tat in terms of announcements so not surprising
[3:27] Speaker 2: that we see another day of this type of um
[3:29] Speaker 2: this type of affordability measure. And it's good to see
[3:31] Speaker 2: all the campaigns as we talked about last week, really
[3:34] Speaker 2: landing on the things that matter to British Columbians. This
[3:36] Speaker 2: one I found funny just from a retail policy perspective
[3:39] Speaker 2: and how it's been communicated to voters. I think it's
[3:42] Speaker 2: cleaner when you say from a BC conservative lens, like
[3:45] Speaker 2: we'll give you a thousand dollars instead of David Eby's freeze,
[3:49] Speaker 2: which is basically if someone comes up to you in
[3:50] Speaker 2: the street and says, I can either give you a
[3:53] Speaker 2: check for $ 1, 000 or I won't steal your wallet. It's
[3:56] Speaker 2: kind of an easy decision for voters. And so I
[3:59] Speaker 2: think if it really is a freeze, they probably should
[4:02] Speaker 2: have quantified it in dollars for folks that made their
[4:05] Speaker 2: minds wrap around what it actually meant for their pocketbook.
[4:08] Speaker 2: That's really the core of the issues for the campaigns
[4:11] Speaker 2: right now.
[4:11] Speaker 1: I thought the conservative announcement was kind of fascinating too
[4:14] Speaker 1: because they did it at a grocery store. with the $ 1, 000
[4:17] Speaker 1: rebate kind of signage, which was kind of poking at
[4:20] Speaker 1: David Eby's $ 1, 000 grocery rebate from the last election that
[4:23] Speaker 1: he was very popular and he backed away from. So
[4:25] Speaker 1: it was almost like re-offering people this thing, but in
[4:30] Speaker 1: a different format and kind of poking the NDP a
[4:32] Speaker 1: little bit on that too, because Eby's got lots of
[4:34] Speaker 1: questions this election about what happened to your grocery rebate
[4:38] Speaker 1: and how can we, if you promise it and don't
[4:41] Speaker 1: do it, how can we trust you again? this time around.
[4:44] Speaker 1: And Dirksen found a way to kind of slide that
[4:46] Speaker 1: frame into it too, it looked like.
[4:48] Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. That's always the question on these campaigns.
[4:51] Speaker 2: They can offer whatever they want to with voters right
[4:53] Speaker 2: now with no strings attached, because that's what a campaign is.
[4:55] Speaker 2: But when it comes to sitting in the legislature and
[4:58] Speaker 2: getting these things passed, EB is running against himself in
[5:00] Speaker 2: that way.
[5:01] Speaker 3: And so that's difficult.
[5:02] Speaker 2: We all remember, and we've all driven over the Granville
[5:04] Speaker 2: Bridge in Vancouver and have seen photos of what that
[5:06] Speaker 2: was supposed.
[5:07] Speaker 3: To look like.
[5:07] Speaker 2: And now it's just kind of four benches with some
[5:09] Speaker 2: yellow lines around them. And so There's a lot of
[5:11] Speaker 2: examples where we've had promises during elections and those things
[5:14] Speaker 2: haven't come to fruition.
[5:16] Speaker 1: Let's just listen to E.B. Anderson on the issue of
[5:21] Speaker 1: kind of the tax ICBC sort of freeze issue here.
[5:27] Speaker 4: At a time when costs are going up in so
[5:29] Speaker 4: many different areas, to know that whether you're a young
[5:32] Speaker 4: person or a business owner or anybody else dependent on
[5:36] Speaker 4: a vehicle, that your costs are going to stay the
[5:38] Speaker 4: same on car insurance is meaningful because insurance can be expensive.
[5:43] Speaker 4: And we see it in other places. And astonishingly, astonishingly,
[5:49] Speaker 4: yesterday we learned that the conservative leader had issued a
[5:54] Speaker 4: secret letter to private insurance companies and lawyers, saying that
[5:59] Speaker 4: he was going to undo all of the work on
[6:02] Speaker 4: ICBC to get costs under control that's delivered seven years
[6:06] Speaker 4: of no rate increases for British Columbians.
[6:09] Speaker 5: The reality is that this... This system that we currently
[6:12] Speaker 5: have has some very serious challenges to it, and we
[6:16] Speaker 5: absolutely have to get that right for people that have
[6:19] Speaker 5: been affected by catastrophic injury and other things. And I'm committed, obviously, obviously,
[6:26] Speaker 5: I insure a couple of cars myself, and I am
[6:30] Speaker 5: absolutely committed to affordable insurance, but we have to get
[6:34] Speaker 5: this better on the other side.
[6:37] Speaker 1: That was both leaders talking about the ICBC issue, Nicole,
[6:40] Speaker 1: because obviously the Conservatives still getting attacked by the NDP
[6:44] Speaker 1: for promising to do, to change the no-fault insurance system
[6:49] Speaker 1: by opening up the hybrid model, as they called it,
[6:52] Speaker 1: to allow in some cases lawsuits to proceed again and
[6:55] Speaker 1: maybe even private competition against ICBC. So David Eby using
[6:59] Speaker 1: his rate freeze to attack Lauren Dirksen on that issue
[7:02] Speaker 1: and Dirksen responding there. I, I, would not have had
[7:05] Speaker 1: on my bingo card three days of no-fault insurance discussion
[7:09] Speaker 1: in the middle of the election, but here we are
[7:12] Speaker 1: discussing that as kind of a top topic this week.
[7:16] Speaker 2: Yeah, deeply unsexy in the middle of this campaign, but
[7:19] Speaker 2: here we are. I find it very funny talking about
[7:22] Speaker 2: the secret letter. It was an open letter to many
[7:25] Speaker 2: different associations of which have thousands of members. And so
[7:29] Speaker 2: the secret part of that letter is it kind of
[7:31] Speaker 2: falls flat a little bit, but it did really draw
[7:33] Speaker 2: attention to kind of the no love loss between British
[7:36] Speaker 2: Columbians and ICBC. Like, I don't think that that's a
[7:38] Speaker 2: winning argument to say like, this is the only way
[7:41] Speaker 2: we can do this. I do like that there is
[7:43] Speaker 2: some consideration and there should always be consideration about ways
[7:46] Speaker 2: to do things better for British Columbians to make it
[7:48] Speaker 2: more affordable. So yes, should we always be looking at
[7:51] Speaker 2: different ways to approach our insurance system to make things
[7:53] Speaker 2: more affordable.
[7:54] Speaker 3: I say that's a good thing.
[7:55] Speaker 2: Depends on how they do it at the end of
[7:57] Speaker 2: the day. But I didn't see this as a huge
[7:59] Speaker 2: miss from the conservatives and I don't see it as
[8:01] Speaker 2: a secret letter, but it's a good tactic from the
[8:04] Speaker 2: NDP regardless.
[8:05] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[8:05] Speaker 2: Okay.
[8:05] Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. When we come back, we'll
[8:07] Speaker 1: talk about a bunch of other things on the campaign
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[8:51] Speaker 1: the candidate issue in Victoria Beacon Hill, which came up
[8:55] Speaker 1: yesterday as well. Lorne Dirksen firing the candidate there after
[9:00] Speaker 1: the NDP dropped some opposition research. If you're in government,
[9:05] Speaker 1: are you dropping oppo research? I guess you can on
[9:08] Speaker 1: the candidate there, Wakim Aguil. who in 2025 on social
[9:13] Speaker 1: media had shared a meme of US President Donald Trump
[9:15] Speaker 1: making disparaging comments about Pakistanis and also suggested in another
[9:19] Speaker 1: post that a driver who had plowed into a crowd
[9:22] Speaker 1: of pro-Palestinian protesters in Switzerland should have backed up and
[9:26] Speaker 1: reversed over them too. This was dropped during Lauren Dirksen's
[9:31] Speaker 1: press conference on the grocery tax rebates. He was asked
[9:36] Speaker 1: about it, said, I'll look into it as soon as
[9:38] Speaker 1: I get done this press conference. 30 minutes later, fired
[9:41] Speaker 1: the candidate. And that turned into, you know, a pretty
[9:46] Speaker 1: big story. For the day, Nicole, the handling of this
[9:51] Speaker 1: was pretty quick by Dirksen. But what is the risk
[9:54] Speaker 1: to the sort of the conservative campaign when you have
[9:56] Speaker 1: candidates whose views pop up like this and have to
[10:00] Speaker 1: be handled by the leader in an election?
[10:02] Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is really the vulnerability.
[10:05] Speaker 2: Sometimes when you're looking at the BC conservatives and what
[10:07] Speaker 2: they were and maybe what they are trying to be
[10:09] Speaker 2: now is there are still a lot of people maybe
[10:11] Speaker 2: in that team that have some views that are maybe
[10:16] Speaker 2: not as centrist as maybe the team is putting forward.
[10:19] Speaker 2: So That will happen. Obviously, snap election, you've got to
[10:22] Speaker 2: vet 93 candidates very quickly, too. That does happen. But
[10:25] Speaker 2: I think the win here, it's actually played in the B.C.
[10:27] Speaker 2: Conservatives' favor because the quickness of the dismissal of this candidate,
[10:32] Speaker 2: I think it was 90 minutes from the time that
[10:33] Speaker 2: press conference ended to when they removed him, not as
[10:37] Speaker 2: a candidate because they're already on the ballot, but a
[10:39] Speaker 2: statement was issued removing them, actually played pretty well in
[10:42] Speaker 2: the B.C. Conservatives' favor and showed that they were willing
[10:44] Speaker 2: to move quickly on an issue. But kudos to the
[10:46] Speaker 2: NDP for dropping that in the middle of a press
[10:48] Speaker 2: conference with the leader, because then he got that question
[10:51] Speaker 2: and wasn't really able to respond to it. So very
[10:54] Speaker 2: good politicking by the BC NDP. But I think it
[10:59] Speaker 2: kind of fell flat. So unless there's seven more of
[11:01] Speaker 2: these every single other day from now until the end
[11:04] Speaker 2: of the campaign, I think this is probably a one
[11:06] Speaker 2: and done.
[11:07] Speaker 1: It could be though. You never know. I mean, the last,
[11:10] Speaker 1: the last election, we had a whole bunch of them.
[11:12] Speaker 1: We had the, you know, guy with the COVID vaccine
[11:15] Speaker 1: that gives you magnetic powers and the person with chemtrails
[11:18] Speaker 1: and the people who thought LGBTQ folks were degenerates and
[11:21] Speaker 1: like on and on. So you're right. I think the
[11:24] Speaker 1: risk is if there's more than Dirksen looks like he's
[11:27] Speaker 1: presiding over another band of crazy yahoos or who aren't
[11:31] Speaker 1: fit to take hold of government.
[11:34] Speaker 3: Uh, so, um, And then what's the threshold, too, for
[11:37] Speaker 3: kicking people? Because now it's 90 minutes.
[11:40] Speaker 2: How quickly you need to get these folks out and
[11:42] Speaker 2: then how egregious does it need to be in order
[11:44] Speaker 2: to trigger that? So I think if there are more
[11:47] Speaker 2: of these, that'll be some hard conversations they're going to
[11:50] Speaker 2: have to have inside the tent there. Yeah.
[11:52] Speaker 1: Other issues, I noticed sort of dueling announcements in the
[11:55] Speaker 1: last couple of days for small business supports. The Conservatives
[11:58] Speaker 1: had a Economic plan about scrapping the PST on machinery
[12:02] Speaker 1: and capital inputs. That's been a long-standing request of the
[12:04] Speaker 1: business community because the PST is embedded in the process
[12:08] Speaker 1: of businesses again and again as they buy their equipment
[12:11] Speaker 1: and make their product or service. The Conservatives offering to
[12:14] Speaker 1: scrap that. EB offering a million-dollar loan up to 72
[12:18] Speaker 1: months for small businesses. And the Greens returning to their
[12:23] Speaker 1: issue of the wealth tax. I did ask EB yesterday.
[12:27] Speaker 1: if there's any more tax hikes coming. Because in the
[12:30] Speaker 1: back of my mind, I thought, you know, to raise
[12:32] Speaker 1: the income tax on the wealthiest folks, anyone who makes
[12:36] Speaker 1: over $ 190, 000 to pay for health care, what about raising
[12:38] Speaker 1: the employer health tax? What about raising the corporate tax?
[12:40] Speaker 1: Are those on the table? And he said no. So
[12:43] Speaker 1: I guess that's it for tax increases from the NDP,
[12:46] Speaker 1: which is kind of interesting. But all this fits into, Nicole,
[12:50] Speaker 1: the idea of how to pay for some of the
[12:53] Speaker 1: promises that the campaigns are making. Both say they'll have
[12:57] Speaker 1: costed platforms. Both are struggling with the issue of tax
[13:00] Speaker 1: cuts and promises that cost money during a record deficit
[13:06] Speaker 1: while still offering supports to small businesses and others. It's
[13:09] Speaker 1: a very complicated, messy situation because of the financial situation
[13:13] Speaker 1: BC's in that everyone's kind of stuck dealing with as
[13:16] Speaker 1: they put their election promises together here.
[13:19] Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
[13:20] Speaker 2: And then once you get the job, then you go
[13:22] Speaker 2: into the legislature and open up the books and maybe
[13:24] Speaker 2: it's an entirely different picture than what you imagined it
[13:26] Speaker 2: would be.
[13:27] Speaker 3: So I'm less worried about maybe the costed platform.
[13:29] Speaker 2: And if I was the campaigns, I'd probably drop my
[13:31] Speaker 2: platform like 10 minutes before you step on stage for
[13:34] Speaker 2: the debate. So you can say that you dropped a
[13:36] Speaker 2: costed platform, but then no one really has time to
[13:39] Speaker 2: examine it in any great detail. But it's a great
[13:41] Speaker 2: talking point. And then you can be kind of on
[13:42] Speaker 2: your front foot during that debate. But yeah, another example
[13:46] Speaker 2: where we kind of dueling announcements and affordability is central
[13:49] Speaker 2: to all that.
[13:50] Speaker 3: Of the BC Conservatives, yeah, lots here from the BC
[13:53] Speaker 3: Business Council, honestly.
[13:54] Speaker 2: Things that, like you said, that the Business Council and
[13:56] Speaker 2: others have been campaigning for for a really long time.
[13:58] Speaker 2: So nice to see them listening and looking forward to
[14:01] Speaker 2: more of it. Like there's some interesting things in here,
[14:03] Speaker 2: Premier's Tech Council, kind of all over the place, but
[14:06] Speaker 2: red tape reduction. But that was already a round table
[14:09] Speaker 2: that the BC NDP were working on in the lead
[14:12] Speaker 2: up to this election.
[14:13] Speaker 3: So yeah, all... They're saying all the buzzwords, honestly.
[14:16] Speaker 1: Minister of red tape reduction.
[14:18] Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fancy.
[14:21] Speaker 1: One other topic here, one touch on the BC Greens,
[14:23] Speaker 1: which I still think are running an interesting campaign. And
[14:27] Speaker 1: yesterday talked about education. They promised a counselor in every
[14:31] Speaker 1: school and a universal lunch program. And Nicole, I wonder
[14:35] Speaker 1: what you thought of those. The counselor in every school
[14:37] Speaker 1: was actually part of a promise that the NDP made
[14:40] Speaker 1: in the last election to boost school counselors. And a
[14:44] Speaker 1: universal lunch program is an interesting affordability promise for parents
[14:49] Speaker 1: who find making lunches for their kids both expensive with
[14:52] Speaker 1: groceries and also a real pain in the butt. And
[14:55] Speaker 1: a lunch program I could see being very popular as well.
[14:59] Speaker 1: The Greens are the only ones talking about that issue.
[15:01] Speaker 1: I haven't heard any education policies from the other two parties,
[15:05] Speaker 1: which continues to sort of fascinate me. The Greens love
[15:08] Speaker 1: him or hate him. They're talking about issues no one
[15:10] Speaker 1: else is. Do you think any of those break through
[15:12] Speaker 1: to people's lives?
[15:15] Speaker 3: I hope so.
[15:15] Speaker 2: I hope the Greens continue to push both of the
[15:18] Speaker 2: other major parties, the BCNDP and the Conservatives, to think
[15:21] Speaker 2: creatively and think bigger and do these things. like we've
[15:24] Speaker 2: talked about before, the bar is like really low. Like
[15:26] Speaker 2: these are kind of low risk things for the BC
[15:28] Speaker 2: Greens to put forward because it's unlikely they're going to
[15:30] Speaker 2: form government. But I do really like that they're pushing this.
[15:33] Speaker 2: And it builds off kind of the BC NDP's plan.
[15:36] Speaker 2: Like they had a food program and there is a
[15:38] Speaker 2: national school food program as well that is tied to
[15:40] Speaker 2: some of these provincial programs. So there's already progress here.
[15:44] Speaker 2: I think the councillors thing is interesting as well. But
[15:48] Speaker 2: it's nice to talk about schools without talking about SOGI, honestly.
[15:50] Speaker 2: And it's nice to talk about the safety of our
[15:53] Speaker 2: children in our schools and how to make sure education
[15:55] Speaker 2: and the wraparound supports around that are really robust. So
[15:59] Speaker 2: it's nice to, yeah, honestly have this conversation without getting
[16:02] Speaker 2: into the weeds on everything else.
[16:04] Speaker 1: I guess the thing to watch for with the Greens
[16:05] Speaker 1: is if the polls are correct now, and who knows,
[16:08] Speaker 1: we've got lots of time in their polls, we could
[16:10] Speaker 1: be in for another sort of situation where the Greens
[16:12] Speaker 1: hold maybe the balance of power, like who knows. And
[16:14] Speaker 1: then you start looking at their platform for issues like
[16:17] Speaker 1: this that overlap with what the NDP or conservatives would
[16:19] Speaker 1: want to do anyways, maybe. And they can give to
[16:22] Speaker 1: the Greens in exchange for support, like a lunch program
[16:24] Speaker 1: or a councillor. So that becomes the value of the
[16:27] Speaker 1: Green campaign in a way. They won't form government, but
[16:29] Speaker 1: they could have some issues that other parties meet them
[16:32] Speaker 1: on to get their support if we end up in
[16:34] Speaker 1: a deadlocked legislature. Although if we end up in a
[16:36] Speaker 1: deadlocked legislature after this election campaign, oh man, that's the
[16:42] Speaker 1: worst of all options because we could be back to
[16:45] Speaker 1: the polls again. uh, again, before you know it.
[16:47] Speaker 3: Okay.
[16:47] Speaker 1: So just squeeze one.
[16:48] Speaker 3: Don't say that loud.
[16:50] Speaker 2: I know.
[16:50] Speaker 3: I jinxed it.
[16:51] Speaker 1: I jinxed it. Just, just one more quick topic here.
[16:54] Speaker 1: The Angus Reid survey that came out yesterday, uh, just
[16:56] Speaker 1: on the feelings that voters have about the two leaders,
[17:00] Speaker 1: EB and Dirksen, 78% of people surveyed said they have
[17:04] Speaker 1: something they dislike about EB. Dirksen's was much lower because
[17:08] Speaker 1: most people don't know who he is. The idea of
[17:11] Speaker 1: EB being unpopular in a way, um, I think it's
[17:15] Speaker 1: kind of, interesting subtext to this campaign. His face isn't
[17:18] Speaker 1: on the side of the bus. The literature doesn't have
[17:21] Speaker 1: David Eby the way it did last time.
[17:23] Speaker 3: It's different.
[17:25] Speaker 1: And the numbers, that's what I took away from that survey.
[17:28] Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah, there's a lot of negatives
[17:30] Speaker 1: around the leader at this point on the NDP campaign.
[17:33] Speaker 1: And that was a number that seemed to be put
[17:35] Speaker 1: to it. But what did you think?
[17:38] Speaker 2: Yeah, those have been his approval numbers for a really
[17:41] Speaker 2: long time. So I'm really not surprised. And this also
[17:43] Speaker 2: seems like Some people have said maybe an exit strategy
[17:45] Speaker 2: for David Eby, like just go down in flames and
[17:49] Speaker 2: ride this out and get kicked out by the voters
[17:52] Speaker 2: and not your own caucus. But it does seem like
[17:54] Speaker 2: they're putting on a good show. But yeah, interesting to
[17:55] Speaker 2: see for a while his face and name have kind
[17:58] Speaker 2: of been removed from literature and they've been. profiling at
[18:01] Speaker 2: every single announcement more of that that team approach more
[18:04] Speaker 2: of the candidates with him and behind him and making
[18:06] Speaker 2: those announcements to to highlight that there's some bench strength
[18:10] Speaker 2: there even though they've lost quite a few really important
[18:13] Speaker 2: um cabinet ministers that should have been running again and
[18:16] Speaker 2: brenda and rabbi so um yeah very interesting to see
[18:19] Speaker 2: and The numbers are still looking like it's a conservative
[18:23] Speaker 2: government right now. We're looking at the seat projection of
[18:25] Speaker 2: some of the aggregates. It still looks quite good for
[18:28] Speaker 2: the BC conservatives. And I think 338 has them predicting
[18:32] Speaker 2: a 75% chance of a BC conservative majority right now.
[18:36] Speaker 2: So obviously taking David Eby's face and name off of
[18:40] Speaker 2: some of the literature wasn't enough. But we'll see what
[18:44] Speaker 2: happens on October 24th here.
[18:45] Speaker 3: But yeah, it's not looking great.
[18:46] Speaker 1: Yeah, if you look at the NDP literature, you'd think
[18:48] Speaker 1: the leader is a Canadian flag. It's like a maple
[18:50] Speaker 1: leaf leads the party. That's what all the literature is.
[18:53] Speaker 1: Vote for the maple leaf. Who can hug the flag harder?
[18:56] Speaker 3: The on-fire maple leaf.
[18:58] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, from the original logo, yeah. Oh, interesting times.
[19:02] Speaker 1: All right, Nicole, thank you so much for getting up
[19:05] Speaker 1: and doing the show with me this morning.
[19:06] Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
[19:07] Speaker 2: I love it.
[19:08] Speaker 3: Great to be here.
[19:09] Speaker 1: Thank you, everyone, for listening. Make sure Political Capital Prime
[19:12] Speaker 1: is on your watch list this afternoon on YouTube, Sundays
[19:15] Speaker 1: on Check TV. And there is also a Saturday, Political
[19:18] Speaker 1: Capital Daily with Jeff Ferrier. So if you're up early
[19:21] Speaker 1: on Saturday, you're picking up dog poop. I had to
[19:24] Speaker 1: squeeze that one in there. Make sure you have a
[19:27] Speaker 1: listen to that show as well. So we will see
[19:29] Speaker 1: you tomorrow. Take care.

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