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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Maybe Klein's conservatives but Redford is pretty centrist.
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Clark is the same, very much a centrist. Governed a bit to the right of her personal inclinations strategically because of the rise of the Conservative party a couple years ago in order to try to win back that element of the party but has personal ties to the federal Liberal party for most of her life.
The BC Liberal party is a huge tent though, as previously mentioned includes both federal liberals and conservatives, not affiliated with either federally. The Conservative faction did the we'll take our ball and go home act after Clark won the leadership and fled to the new BC Conservative party but eventually came back minus a few of their leaders for whom the schism with Clark was too great.
It's always an uneasy coalition because it includes everything from your moderate federal liberal types to a few of your tinfoil hat wildrose equivalents who can't bear to be completely excluded from power. The groups in the party can't win power unless they work together but they are pretty different except their dislike of the NDP.
What has held them together in my opinion is that BC is a very non-religious province relative to the rest of Canada so the difference is mainly fiscal. Socially there's very little appetite for religion or prohibitive social policy in politics in BC from any party.
