B.C. United Leader Kevin Falcon says the provincial Conservatives have rejected a deal to avoid vote-splitting in the fall provincial election.
He says talks between the two right-of-centre parties concluded with B.C. Conservatives Leader John Rustad rejecting a proposed “non-competition” agreement.
Falcon says Rustad has “placed his own ambition” above B.C.'s interests and is risking the re-election of the governing NDP.
On the one hand, it’s nice to see the right fighting itself.
On the other hand, seeing the Conservatives be the ones in the lead of the two parties is… not great.
We went from a right-of-centre BC ‘United’ vs a left-of-centre BC NDP, to a right-wing BC Cons vs a left-of-centre BC NDP. I’m not loving that shift to an even worse opposition party.