Former federal cabinet minister Herb Dhaliwal said he wants to revive a liberal party for those left politically homeless in British Columbia after the BC United Party suspended its campaign in the upcoming provincial election.
In a statement Dhaliwal says that the former BC Liberal Party rebranded as BC United was doomed by a “backroom deal” with the BC Conservative Party. According to former federal cabinet minister who left his Vancouver-area riding in 2004 says Leader Kevin Falcon’s suspension of the BC United campaign “betrayed” supporters, and the province risks returning to a “dysfunctional” state of “polarizing right versus left combat.”
Dhaliwal says an attempt to register the party under the name “New Liberal Party of BC” was rejected by Elections BC on technical grounds and he’s now hired a lawyer Joven Narwal to contest the rejection. A letter from Joven Narwal to Elections BC says the agency declined to register the name due to potential voter confusion but adding “not associated with BC United” or a similar phrase to the ballot could avoid “any conceivable confusion in the minds of voters.”
