Former B.C. Conservative Boultbee crosses to NDP, calling out ‘Trump-style populism’
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VICTORIA — Former Conservative member of the British Columbia legislature Amelia Boultbee, who left the caucus to sit as an Independent, is now a member of the governing New Democrats.
Boultbee, who won her seat as a B.C. Conservative by narrowly edging out an NDP opponent by a few hundred votes, told a joint news conference with Premier David Eby on Friday that the Conservatives are offering an approach that would “set our province back and leave us more divided.”
“I’ve always believed that politics should be about respecting each other while working to solve problems, and those values have never changed. However, the party I was first elected with has,” she said.
“What was promised to me and many others as a big-tent party gets smaller by the day. With a new leader more consumed with divisive Donald Trump-style populism than with things that actually matter to people, it’s clearer now than ever that they’re offering no real solutions.”
