Despite being the lightning rod for many that he appears to be at times, with Tuesday night’s electoral victory Premier Gordon Campbell has turned a corner of sorts in British Columbia politics, securing his third consecutive term as Premier of the province, making a move towards the political history books.
In a province where politics has long been truly a blood sport, leaders come and go in rapid fashion, backroom coups, outright hostility to the leaders, it all has been part of the colourful past for many of BC’s parties over the years…
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