Chilcotin Country

The Bella Coola to go fishing.

Anyways, I was on the plateau of Chilcotin Plateau and noticed dry lightning.

And that's when all hell broke loose, I guess.

And, you know, we had so many fires throughout the Chilcotin Caribou.

You know, some of the main communities of Hunter Mile and Williams Lake were in danger and these towns were being evacuated.

Thus were all the firefighting and wildfire crews and air tankers were sent in.

I mean, there was a lot of harvesting was done.

allowed in their territories to salvage these stands that were impacted by the mountain pine beetle but you know a lot of these areas were still standing and dead and falling over and so the fuel loading was massive the mountain pine beetle has created that fuel loading for these mega fires

The Indigenous, I'll tell you one thing that wasn't on the ballot, and that's Section 35 of the Constitution, right? And no matter what the politicians say in a campaign, no matter what the business community wants, We still have Section 35 of the Constitution.

We still have the Chilcotin decision.

We still have the TMX decision from 2018 or whenever that was.

And that means that if you want to get the big things built through Indigenous country, you need broad agreement from the affected communities to do it.

He thanked EB for his years of service and congratulated Green leader Emily Lowen on winning her seat.

Dirksen, a former community newspaper publisher, was also re-elected in Karibu, Chilcotin.

If the result holds, it ends nine years of NDP government and makes him B.C.' 's first conservative premier in nearly a century.

The final count is set for November 6th.

No public appearances today for B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Dirksen since he already voted.

He cast a ballot last Sunday in an advanced polling station in Williams Lake in his incumbent riding of Caribou Chilcotin.

The B.C. Conservative leader will also be in Vancouver later this evening and our Elissa Thibault is at Conservative headquarters.

Elissa.

That's from our computer model.

And wind warnings for tonight, and that includes how sound.

North winds gusting 90, over 100K from the southeast northern tip of Vancouver Island, and a snowfall warning for the Chilcotin.

Snow mostly tonight.

Well, he's definitely conservative.

He is from a more conservative part of the province, the Caribou, Chilcotin area.

And he in the last legislature voted for a number of bills that were, quote, culture war, unquote, issues.

He said that, you know, SOGI is very problematic for him.

Some of it might pertain to Alberta and northern parts of the U.S., So when I look for mule deer, I'm looking in the more common and open areas.

So look for open areas, broken country, you know, like interior BC, look, you know, region three, region eight, parts of region four, maybe little bits of region five, the Chilcotin area.

You're going to look for those interior plateaus in areas of those.

Look for sagebrush, bunchgrass hills, a lot of big mule deer have been killed in areas of Region 3, Region 8 in those areas.

And honestly, it was just really a matter of having conversations.

Elected as a BC Liberal in 2020 in Caribou, Chilcotin, a global crew caught up with Dirksen as he was fighting a wildfire the next summer, an image the party loves to promote.

But overall, he'd kept a very low profile during his six years in politics.

If you had to create a template of a good leader.

But for the most part, it looks like we'll see cloudy skies.

We'll keep in that chance of showers later in the day.

But it's particularly from Whistler up towards the Chilcotin and into the Caribou region.

In the meantime the showers are going to be focused on the north coast region tomorrow and then sunny skies across the south.