Are you ‘woke’? Horgan proclaims Pro Rep ‘lit’
Posted November 9, 2018 6:02 am.
Last Updated November 9, 2018 9:47 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – How closely did you pay attention to some of the language used in last night’s debate on electoral reform? It appeared to be at least partially targeting a younger demographic.
Premier John Horgan made no apologies after raising a few eyebrows with some of his lingo towards the end.
“Young people like the idea of working together … If you were woke, you’d know that Pro Rep is lit,” Horgan said.
BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson didn’t think it was that gnarly.
“I’ve got kids from 20 to 24. If I went in there and used the hipster words, they would not laugh. They would cringe,” he said.
As for actual content though, the half-hour debate didn’t offer much actual info, according to University of the Fraser Valley political scientist Hamish Telford.
“The way the debate was formatted, particularly only with half an hour, it really didn’t allow the leaders to get into any of the details of the three systems,” he said.
“It was a rather disappointing debate. It was not really an exercise in public education, which I think would have been helpful at this juncture in the process.”
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Voters need to mail in their ballots by the Nov. 30 deadline to either support moving to a form of proportional representation for the next election or to keep the current first-past-the-post system. A majority of 50 per cent plus one is needed to change the system.
This is the third time British Columbians are voting on electoral reform. Previous votes were held in 2005 and 2009, with both ending in defeat. Horgan said last December in a year-end interview that he believed the third vote would be the province’s last.
