To the Editor,
Big business and money interests seem to always motivate Conservatives into “uniting the right” and not split their vote, thus weaken their candidates’ chances of winning office.
Perhaps progressive political parties and their electorates need to consistently behave likewise.
B.C. experienced progressive-vote splitting between the center-left B.C. NDP and Green parties in the 2017 general provincial election, which almost saw the repeat re-election of an increasingly ethically-challenged conservative B.C. Liberal party government of 16 long years.
Either way, each party leader needs to immediately inform British Columbians whether he/she, if elected, will place much more effective disincentives on investor-speculation in B.C.’s housing market which makes unaffordable housing even more expensive.
Also, will he/she maintain the current provincial rent-hike limit, which many renters need more than ever?
There’s an unprecedentedly high percentage of residents who must rent and who will likely never make enough money to own their home here. Yet, I’ve not heard or read any mainstream news media asking the parties’ leaders these perhaps most pertinent questions.
Frank Sterle Jr.,
White Rock, B.C.
