by romarco1 | Apr 22, 1987 | Timeline:1980s
The NDP needed a new approach. Bob Skelly stepped down as leader and Mike Harcourt, the highly successful former Mayor of Vancouver and newly-elected MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, was the unanimous choice to lead the party. To run the NDP’s next campaign the party...
by romarco1 | Aug 19, 1986 | Timeline:1980s
The NDP wasn’t the only party with a change in leadership. After Social Credit was re-elected in 1983, the government launched an unexpected, drastic new program of “restraint” attacking the union rights of teachers and public sector workers, cutting many social...
by romarco1 | Apr 19, 1986 | Timeline:1980s
Vandermania did its job. In the 1986 election Bob Skelly faced Bill Vander Zalm. After stumbling in a news conference at the opening of the campaign, Skelly fought a good campaign. NDP ads attacking the Social Credit agenda helped regain lost ground, but the swell of...
by romarco1 | Apr 19, 1984 | Timeline:1980s
So, in 1984 an era ended when Dave Barrett stepped down a provincial leader. He went on in 1988 to serve as MP for Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca. The BC party hosted a lively 6-way leadership contest for his replacement. Bill King, the former labour minister represented...
by romarco1 | Apr 19, 1983 | Timeline:1980s
By 1983 unemployment had become the most important issue on voters’ minds. The NDP decided to run on its jobs plan “Let’s Get to Work”. Social Credit had been following the restraint policies popular with Margaret Thatcher and other conservative parties around the...
