Courtesy Canadian Press

By Ethan Ready, files from Canadian Press

Addressing the North

Horgan admits ‘more work’ to do for rural British Columbians

Oct 25, 2020 | 10:56 AM

PRINCE GEORGE – Addressing the media the morning after the provincial election, the Premier-elect John Horgan admitted he would have liked to see better results in rural British Columbia.

“I’ll continue to work hard to build better relationships and understandings of the challenges in rural British Columbia.”

With more than 80 per cent of the polls reporting results, the NDP had won enough seats to form a majority government. The final count won’t be available for three weeks due to the record number of ballots cast by mail, which have not been counted.

The New Democrats won 53 seats, the Liberals 27 seats and the Greens three. Four ridings were too close to call.

In and around the Prince George area, every incumbent saw themselves get re-elected. Shirley Bond won in Prince George-Valemount with 56 per cent of the votes counted. Mike Morris won Prince George-Mackenzie, holding 52 per cent of the votes counted.

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Outside of Metro-Vancouver, particularly across the North, it was a sea of red as numerous Liberal incumbents found themselves being re-elected.

Because of the divide between the results of Metro-British Columbia and the rural sections of the province, Horgan admits he’s going to need to do more work to address the concerns and issues facing the residents in those areas.

“We have some serious issues in the forest sector. I’m going to keep working on those and I’ll have more hands-on work there. We’ll be recreating our cabinet in the weeks ahead to focus on making sure we can revitalize the forest industry, and we can do it in a way that will keep rural communities safe, secure, and healthy during the pandemic. Those are the issues that are going to matter to all British Columbians and I’m going to take that head-on.”