On Tuesday night the leaders of the three main parties, the NDP, the Liberals, and the Green Party squared off in the only debate of this election season. The priorities of the night included: COVID-19 response and recovery, environmental issues, social issues, and cost of living.

Also among the hot button topics was the idea that people couldn’t trust John Horgan anymore. Andrew Wilkinson of the Liberal Party wasn’t shy of voicing his opinion on the election. “You did this for purely self-serving reasons so that you could have an election and try to secure your employment for the next 4 years”. Sonia Furstenau of the Green Party also voiced her discontent with Horgan for calling the election early. “You’ve put people into a place of unease when we’re facing this global pandemic, I don’t think it’s a time to put more fear in people’s hearts.” 

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By far the most important topic of the debate had to be how are we going to recover from the pandemic. Each leader proposed many ways they planned to bring us back whether that be by cutting PST or bringing in better health care. There was a central focus on affordability and working together to help everyone prosper during the rest of the pandemic and long after.

Sonia Furstenau of the Greens said it best though, “And I think that what we need right now more than ever, we’re in a global pandemic, that when people are elected when we are elected to office that we put aside partisanship and we put our duty to service above all. We need to get back to that.”

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Really what we need is to work together 🙂