by romarco1 | Apr 22, 2000 | Timeline:2000s
Following Glen Clark’s resignation, Dan Miller, of Prince Rupert, served as the NDP’s fourth BC premier until a party convention could choose a successor to Clark. In 2000, Ujjal Dosanjh, MLA for Vancouver-Kensington, won the leadership and was sworn in as the...
by romarco1 | Aug 25, 1999 | Timeline:1990s
The Clark government brought in major projects to improve BC’s infrastructure, including the new Island Highway and the opening of the WestCoast Express. The premier also signed BC’s first ever modern Indigenous treaty with the Nisga’a First Nation,...
by romarco1 | Aug 21, 1999 | Timeline:1990s
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...
by romarco1 | May 28, 1996 | Timeline:1990s
Glen Clark is on your side, said the NDP campaign, but Gordon Campbell? Whose side is he on, anyway? It worked and in a tight race the NDP won 39 seats with 39.5% of the popular vote. The Liberals won 41.8% of the vote but only 33 seats, while the new Reform Party won...
by romarco1 | Apr 22, 1996 | Timeline:1990s
Politics in BC is not easy. While the Harcourt government was busy with its policy agenda the NDP provincial organization became embroiled in a scandal. Known as Bingogate, an NDP-oriented charity, the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, was accused of misusing...
