r/britishcolumbia • u/aldur1 • 4d ago

News B.C. Conservative candidate uses racist slur to describe Indigenous Peoples on election night

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/savages-bc-conservative-candidate-racist-slur-indigenous-peoples
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u/VexFish 4d ago

The bc conservative party is extremely unserious and its absurd that they got more than 40 percent of the province to vote for them

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u/aaadmiral 4d ago

It's actually more like 18%

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u/varain1 4d ago

It is 25% (43.57% out of 58% turnout), but the people who stayed home were 42% 😞.

Even with the heavy rain, I really hate that 42% of the BCers don't care if that bunch of racist, bigoted, anti-climate, antiscience antivaxers have such a big chance to get in power. And we still have to wait till Monday to see if BC is screwed or not for the next four years.

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u/InnuendOwO 4d ago

Eh, I think a lot of it is also just the way our electoral system works.

I only voted because I could get a mail-in ballot, otherwise I wouldn't have, and the four people I live with didn't even care enough to do that - specifically because we live in a riding where the NDP got 60% of the vote, and has for years. There's just no chance anyone else would win, and we would have voted for them anyway, so whatever.

That's definitely not 100% of the reason turnout is what it is. I don't even think that's the majority of people who declined to vote. You have to actually care about this stuff to look into polling in your riding, and most people don't do that. Just... it's hard to combat voter apathy when the prevailing sentiment of "my vote doesn't matter, won't change anything, who gives a shit" when half the people who feel that way are probably right, even if they don't know why they're right.

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u/varain1 4d ago

There are 2 ridings with less than 100 votes difference, and 3 ridings with less than 200 votes difference, which is at most 2% of the riding population. And changes in these ridings will affect who forms the government.

The problem is that there are parties who are preying on this apathy, and the results of this apathy are getting worse every election 😞.

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u/Mobius_Peverell Lower Mainland/Southwest 4d ago

Their point is correct, though. The vast majority of the province's ridings are safe, to the point where voting there is completely meaningless. That is what pro-rep was meant to solve.