Victoria-Beacon Hill

So, for example, if you want to vote for the Green Party, you're not voting for Emily Lowen specifically unless you're in like the North Saanich Gulf Islands riding.

So like, for example, I'm in Victoria Beacon Hill is the riding I live in.

So I won't be voting.

If I wanted to vote green, I wouldn't be voting Emily Lohan.

Your where to vote card lists advanced voting options in your electoral district and your assigned voting place on final voting day.

So you will be getting an electoral card if you're on the list of registered voters.

Depending on where you live, There's a couple different areas across southern Vancouver Island, like Victoria Beacon Hill.

I think we both are in that riding.

Uh, what happened between, uh, now and, uh, two years ago? Thank you.

Uh, in Victoria-Beacon Hill?

No.

The, the fact that, uh, the fact that, uh, Grand Chief Stewart Phillips has endorsed, uh, Em- uh, Emily Lone, uh, rather than your party.

No, I have somebody saying, "Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha.

It's the Victoria-Beacon Hill candidate.

Who cares?" No, it isn't.

It's, the party says, according to various reporting, the Vancouver-Strathcona candidate no longer a Conservative candidate, and if elected, would not sit in caucus according to reporting that's breaking right now.

Attack the candidates and things are easy.

Look at what happened in Victoria-Beacon Hill.

You attack a candidate from the Conservatives, the candidate is gone.

We haven't seen that again.

So, you know, there is already questions about, um, Heather Moss, who's one of the MLAs who made comments in a podcast that equated, um, uh, homosexuality with, with pedophilia and grooming.

They had to drop a candidate in Victoria Beacon Hill, uh, named Joachim Agu, because he had very controversial, uh, social media posts, including, uh, suggesting that a, a person who drove into a group of pro-Palestinian protesters in Switzerland should have backed over them, too.

Um, they had to drop that candidate, and now Lauren Dirksen is under pressure from the Muslim community to fire his campaign manager, Carrie Mary, uh, C- Katy May, Carrie, Katy Merrifield, after she tweeted, um, expletives about Islam, uh, in light of the UK rape scandal, uh, there.

So, he is facing pressure to, to, you know, deal with, with some of the, um, you know, the, the, the f- these culture war, uh, factions of his, his party.

She wants young people in the room when the rules get written.

The Thai reports that conservative party of B.C. leader Lorne Dorkson fired the party's candidate in Victoria Beacon Hill.

The action followed social media posts the B.C. NDP flagged as racist, some of them celebrating Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and other right-wing leaders.

The Globe and Mail has reported Dorkson as interim leader.

Victoria Beacon Hill isn't one of the two ridings we cover.

Still, the speed is the story.

A provincial party moved within days once a candidate's old posts became the public record, and the same standard applies to every candidate on every ballot.

Yeah, yeah.

Now, before we go, and we talked about Mr. Eby's gaffe, there was, of course, a candidate from Victoria Beacon Hill who had posted something some pretty racist and rancid comments regarding Pakistanis and the Palestinian situation.

One thing I think you can say is Mr. Dirksen did address that and address it very quickly and booted the candidate, I think within an hour or so after the media brought it up.

Yeah, so he fired him very quickly, very decisively, which is a good move by Dirksen.

Now, having said that, he fired a candidate in a riding his party has absolutely no chance of winning.

He's never won there and likely never will.

Victoria Beacon Hill is one of the safest NDP ridings.

in the entire province.