Western Standard - September 24, 2026


Cory Morgan： Eby’s snap election gamble is already backfiring

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David Eby Angus Reid
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00:00:00.000 Well, it looks like Alberta is getting ready to send Ottawa a message on October 19th.
00:00:05.700 BC is really getting ready to send a message to David Eby on October 24th.
00:00:10.060 I don't think I've ever seen such a major swing in a poll in such short order as we've seen with the BC NDP in the last few weeks from a major polling company.
00:00:22.080 So Angus Reid checked things out in BC a couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago, and the NDP had a four-point lead over the Conservatives.
00:00:30.000 And the Conservatives, of course, in B.C. were in the midst of an explosion.
00:00:34.020 The leadership was all over the place.
00:00:36.800 MLAs were dropping off left, right, and center.
00:00:39.360 David Eby decided he's going to take a chance, cynically calls an election two years early to try and take advantage of the Conservative disarray, and it's backfiring.
00:00:51.180 Suddenly, the swing of 12 points, same pollster, two or three weeks later.
00:00:56.640 Now the Conservatives are leading by eight points over the NDP.
00:01:03.900 What's it going to look like with four more weeks of campaigning?
00:01:06.840 The Conservatives actually have united.
00:01:08.660 A lot of the ones that left caucus have come back now that the leader has been out.
00:01:11.760 What EB did was actually stop the fracturing and unite them.
00:01:16.940 And the BC citizens are pissed off.
00:01:19.220 It shows.
00:01:20.620 This is, I mean, just such a gross abuse of the electoral system for personal, partisan political gain.
00:01:28.680 I am really looking forward to the province of BC sending David Eby and his NDP packing in a few weeks
00:01:36.440 and hopefully signaling a message to the rest of the politicians in Canada. 1.00
00:01:40.700 Don't pull this crap. You will pay a heavy price for it. 1.00
00:01:44.640 I thank you, BC voters, for showing so far that you're going to send them a message.
00:01:48.120 Stay strong. Fire those guys for pulling such a gross stunt of opportunistic abuse of democracy and get yourselves a good new government.