Rob Botterell

Saanich North and the Islands also very closely.

Emily Lowen trying to rewind the green seat there that Rob Botterell gave up.

and Juan de Fuca Malahat has been one of the ridings that we've been watching very closely.

Mike Hicks, of course, conservative candidate for Juan de Fuca Malahat, called into the show as well recently following some controversy involving remarks made involving how English law recognized

in some of the core ridings, instead running in Saanich North and the islands.

This time, that being a riding that they at least know the Greens can win because they held it with Rob Botterell, the MLA there, at dissolution.

The point that I'm trying to make, the rather long-winded one, is that I have watched the NDP, first Horgan, then David Eby taking over from Horgan, without a leadership race, I might add.

There was only one qualified candidate by the time the party got done kicking out Anjali Apaterai.

And while the overlap between the federal riding, Saanich Gulf Islands, and the provincial riding, Saanich North in the islands, is not perfect, there is a substantial part of it that does overlap.

Accordingly, Mayor Ryan Windsor, who does have credentials with the Greens earlier in his career, more recently with the federal Liberals and presently running for the provincial Conservatives, may be well suited to appeal to members of the electorate there who are not necessarily going to continue supporting the Greens, who held that riding at dissolution under Rob Botterell, who's not running again.

But the interesting challenger, of course, is Emily Lowen, the current leader of the BC Greens, who is running in the riding of Saanich North and the islands.

Whether or not the Greens take it, the Conservatives take it, or I'm sure the NDP would want it too.

Historically, it hasn't been a riding they've been known to win, although Gary Holman did hold it for a period of time.

Gary, we never want to forget.

about what happened with that before it was eventually taken by the Greens with Adam Olsen, who, I don't want to say bequeathed it, who didn't run again, and now it was Rob Botterell who ran for the Greens and kept it.

Emily Lowen will potentially be the third BC Green MLA in that riding when the dust settles this weekend.

Saanich North and the Islands, of course, is an exception.

Where Emily Lowen is currently running, Rob Botterell was favored.

the incumbent there, but we can think of it as an incumbent green held riding.

I don't want to count anybody out because, honestly, Centre BC is a new brand.

And this time, you know, I would expect he's the front runner.

And Emily Lowen's picking up Rob Botterell's seat in Saanich North in the Islands.

And she's...

And Elizabeth May's overlapping federal seat.

We received a request from his team saying that he'd love to come on the show and elaborate and talk more about what we have been discussing and what is going to be on offer for that riding.

One of the very interesting ridings that we've mentioned on the show we are following because, yes, it was held by incumbent Rob Botterell for the BC Greens.

Botterell not running again.

Emily Loewen is running.

onward.

Uh, and Mr. Eby has spent an enormous sum of money, uh, but he has yet to accomplish, uh, getting that hospital reopening, reopened, and it's had an enormous impact on, uh, people who depend on it here across, uh, you know, Sydney, North Saanich, Central Saanich, and indeed the Gulf Islands.

We've had advocacy from the MLA representing that area, uh, Rob Botterell, noting that hospital closure and other pressures.

I assume that that would continue if Emily Loewen wins the riding.