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 brought back Hans Brown, who had managed Dave Barrett’s successful 1972 campaign. Harcourt’s team at the Legislature, together with the team at NDP headquarters, developed a tight new approach to campaign messaging. And, encouraged by Harcourt’s previous defeat of Vander Zalm for the Vancouver mayor’s chair, party fund-raising ticked up.
Harcourt. Unanimous.
