John Horgan has had the best response to the pandemic
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Summary
Why is it that Canada's only left-wing premier, Doug Ford, is taking a more hands-off approach to dealing with the Pandemic than his Conservative counterpart, John Horgan of British Columbia, who has taken a much more aggressive approach?
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It's looking like many of Canada's conservative politicians
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are going to have to do some real soul-searching
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Because what does it say that arguably the best response
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has been from the nation's only NDP government?
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That's right, I'm talking about British Columbia
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Now, I know I've heard from a number of people in British Columbia
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who are upset with the response that their government has done
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or they would have preferred this over that and so forth.
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But when I've spoken to people who are looking at
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sort of the whole perspective of a bunch of different provinces,
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people who are in Ontario, where I am, people in Alberta,
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Now, I've heard from a lot of people, medical experts and others,
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that BC is experiencing different things for different reasons,
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which is why perhaps they haven't felt the need
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to bring in as tight restrictions and lockdowns
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as we've seen in Ontario and Alberta and Quebec and so forth.
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But we've also just seen a whole different attitude
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John Horgan has said he doesn't particularly care
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for vaccine passports, doesn't feel they're needed,
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whereas Doug Ford, well, he hasn't said he's introducing
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those things yet domestically within provincial borders.
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But, you know, there's very little that Doug Ford will not do.
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John Horgan also hardly ever closing BC schools.
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Children, the smaller ages, elementary schools in BC,
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they have not had to wear masks in the classroom.
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Whereas Doug Ford, well, he just wouldn't reopen schools
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And kids had to wear masks outdoors in the playground in Ontario.
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And I got on the phone and I called some people I knew in BC
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I can't fully weigh in on what's happening on the ground.
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And I asked conservative-minded folks that I knew in British Columbia,
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that it seems like Canada's only NDP government
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or nominally conservative premier like Doug Ford.
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And generally what I heard from several committed conservatives was,
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that John Horgan is taking a bit more of a hands-off approach
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conservatives really have to talk amongst themselves
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How is it that you can have someone like Doug Ford
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who was actually kind of mocking Florida Governor Ron DeSantos
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when he kind of laughed at the response that they had.
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well, you know, they've had bad outcomes there.
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and why he was so glad that they had had the tight lockdowns
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on a number of fronts much better than Doug Ford?
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Because quite frankly, I think it should be embarrassing
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that this situation is unfolding the way it is.