David Eby

that this could be the opportunity we were waiting for.

Yeah, I mean, I think the line that has become somewhat trite now is that David Eby saw an opportunity for himself, and it turned into an opportunity for British Columbians to get a new government two years early.

And boy, did they ever seize that opportunity.

This was a big blue wave that washed over the whole province, far in excess of my expectations or of anyone else's.

And that's good.

That's refreshing as well.

for media, because we weren't provided access for David Eby at the end there.

He wouldn't even respond to our emails.

And I think this is the opportunity to do that.

All right, do we know if David Eby will be attending this caucus meeting, Keith?

Yeah, that's a bit of a mystery.

So if I did talk to a number of MLAs today, they say they honestly don't know.

White is pleased the board has announced a review looking for creative and efficient solutions within BC Ferries.

As for the timing of the CEO's exit, the board isn't talking.

He and former board chair, NDP legend, Joy McPhail, were brought over to BC Ferries from ICBC, where they helped then Attorney General David Eby implement no-fault insurance.

McPhail left the ferry board in June.

when he catastrophically lost to Brian Mulroney and the Conservatives back in the 80s.

But it all centers on the fact that David Eby took a gamble and he took a gamble on the fact that the Conservatives were in disarray.

But the problem is, is he didn't take into account what voters would think.

He saw opportunity when a leaderless party one that was leading over the summer, slipped behind in the polls.

Then he called the election and somehow he didn't actually expect the response that he got.

At the first press conference, reporters started calling him out on his opportunism and how he was only seeking to aggrandize himself, seeking more power for himself.

And this was just an opportunity for David Eby and the NDP party.

And this continued throughout the election.

This is Adam Stirling on CFAX 1070.

Texture at 71010 asking the question, is David Eby's decision to call a snap election the biggest blunder in provincial politics, or is it the biggest blunder, the texture writes, in Canadian politics, maybe even global politics for that matter? Ultimately, I think the full consequences...

of the decision to call a snap election during a municipal election are still being tallied, I think is a fair way to put it.

But I was going over the numbers yesterday, and I know Mario Canseco from ResearchCo was on with Josh Hildman in the afternoon yesterday.

They followed their leader, it says, in the demise of this province for the last nine years.

Good riddance.

But Texter, surely you'll agree that there were any number of reasons for why the New Democrats could have, and it sounds like in your view, should have lost an election aside from David Eby deciding to call it at a bad time.

What we saw, and I do believe that the New Democrats didn't deserve to lose this way, is because the timing of the election itself seems to have been a massive factor.

So while I hope, as I've said any number of times today, that we continue to see party solidarity and overall solidarity, and we don't have a civil war erupt yet again in the Conservative Party that is 37 days civil war free as of today, I don't know why that would be the default expectation.

But again, I blame David Eby for calling the snap election and causing all of that because if we had had the next two years for the Conservative Party to put together a detailed, fulsome platform for us to accumulate detailed stances on specific issues, especially sensitive ones.

Like SOGI 123 and SOGI in schools, I think that people would be a lot more confident in what the new government will look like going forward.

And again, I'm not telling you that there will be materials removed from school libraries or not.

Basically, it was like a car crash.

He smelled the plight of the Conservatives and he was prepared to basically just trying to demolish that party once and for all.

So no, I saw David Eby as a man in front of a podium just trying to cobble whatever story he thought that the public would believe.

And it started out with thinking the orange man was the issue.

And it was Jordan Armstrong with Global News.

It was asking David Eby about them.

And it was letters that were apparently being sent to people saying, hey, we know you didn't vote last election.

You should really vote this time, nudging them, so to speak, letting them know that somebody can see what they are and are not doing.

A sudden departure.

B.C. Ferries has replaced CEO Nicholas Jimenez as the board of directors has ordered a review on how the ferry system operates.

It comes as premier designate Lorne Dirksen has pointed to cancelled sailings and long waits under David Eby's government and his plan to quote fix B.C. Ferries.

Earlier this month Dirksen said his government would establish a B.C. Ferries charter setting clear standards for reliable service and holding leadership accountable.

Earlier this month, Quebec elected a PQ government after eight years of CAQ rule.

Well, last week, voters in British Columbia gave the Conservatives a decisive majority, punting former Premier David Eby and the NDP from power.

I think they're grumpy.

How about that? I think they're definitely grumpy and they're very suspicious of politicians that might be looking to engineer their own success.

So we believe and we are very confident that we can get a bridge done quicker and more affordable for the taxpayers, which will be better for the commuters of the lower mainland.

During the campaign, when now premier designate Lauren Dirksen said that it would be his, it was his promise that going back to the bridge, David Eby said that, I think the word he used was lunacy, and said for a number of reasons, one being that the federal portion would disappear.

Was it $3.8 billion, somewhere around there, that the federal government had said they would contribute to the tunnel? Is that true, that that funding would disappear? Yeah.

Not at all.