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...
by romarco1 | Apr 22, 1992 | Timeline:1990s
The 1990s were a decade of amazing progress under the leadership of Premier Mike Harcourt and his successor Premier Glen Clark. Although the NDP was careful to present Harcourt as a moderate, mainstream, and definitely not scary leader for the 1990s, when you look at...
by romarco1 | Dec 22, 1991 | Timeline:1990s
The new government was sworn in November 5, 1991. The Harcourt Cabinet included a then-record seven women in roles that Premier said “will be in charge of 80 per cent of the budget of B.C.” A separate ministry of women’s equality under newly elected...
