Glen Clark won the leadership at the party’s 1996 convention, and set his sights or regaining the NDP’s base as a party of working people and the middle class. His campaign to freeze Hydro rates, ICBC rates, ferry fares and tuition fees, and to freeze other taxes and fees as well, set the stage. Meanwhile, the Liberals had been taken over by Gordon Campbell’s team of corporate backers who promised tax breaks for the most well off. It set the stage for a classic campaign of who is on whose side.
A new leader and premier
