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A 'Sea Change' is underway in BC Politics...

To all Members and Supporters:

The BC Conservative Party started the election campaign with nothing but faith. We had no money, few volunteers and almost no candidates. But the small group that we assembled had faith.

And that faith has produced results.

Despite not electing any MLA’s we have actually enjoyed a great deal of success in this campaign.

We have dramatically increased the awareness of our Party, both in the media and among the public.

We have increased our membership and we have identified a large number of campaign workers and constituency members, as well as a number of good potential candidates for the next election.

We have a number of people to thank for our success.

Thank you to all the members of our Provincial Board of Directors who have worked tirelessly over the last four years to build an organization for this election campaign.

A special thank you to our Party Secretary, Gill Picard and to Yvonne Dunlop for the tremendous amount of work they have done for the Party. Thank you to Del & Sharon Israelson and all the members of the Candidate Selection Committee for their work in finding candidates and screening them. Thank you to our Campaign Manager, Tony Bhullar and or Deputy Campaign Manager, Del Israelson for their work in organizing and managing the campaign.

Thank you to all the people who contributed to the development of our policies over the last four years and who worked to put together a fantastic Party Platform, based on those policies. Thank you to all the people who contributed financially to the campaign. Thank you to Chris Delaney and Mark Thompson, our Deputy Leaders for helping me to lead the Party through the Election Campaign and to both Chris Delaney and Peter Neville for their work in bringing attention to the single most important issue in this campaign – the Recognition and Reconciliation Act.

Thank you to all the Campaign Managers and Campaign workers in every constituency that worked so hard to help our candidates.

A great big and heartfelt thank you to all the candidates for an exceptional job in campaigning for election and in helping to raise the profile of our Party.

I am sure I have overlooked some people who helped in this campaign, but I want you to know that I really appreciate everyone’s contribution.

 

Now the work begins.

We must continue to provide credible and accountable opposition to our Government from outside the legislature. We must criticize them when they do badly and give them credit when they earn it.

We must encourage them to improve the situation for British Columbians and offer suggestions on how to do it. This will include improving health care and education, encouraging private industry to build a stronger economy, with good paying jobs for our citizens, reducing taxes and eliminating the carbon tax without replacing it with any new tax or cap & trade system, and finding a way to settle Aboriginal Land Claims without giving up control of our entire Province to 30 unelected Aboriginal Governments that are not accountable to you and me.

I have asked the candidates, the campaign managers and the members of the Provincial Board of Directors to meet with me for a week-end camp-out to unwind after the election campaign and to discuss ways to ensure that our Party keeps growing and working to get ready for the next election.

We will talk about what we did right in this election campaign as well as what we could have done differently. We will also talk about how to organize our Party with an overall plan or roadmap for building a credible party for the 2013 election. This will include the formation of a strong Board of Directors and a Strong Campaign Team. It will include establishing a Party Office in Vancouver. It will include Committees like Fundraising, Membership and Constituency Development, among others. It will also include recruiting the maximum number of candidates and campaign workers.

We will be talking about the possibility of organizing a petition drive to force the government to hold a binding referendum on the Recognition and Reconciliation Act.  We will talk about enlisting the support of the Business Community as well as a number of organizations to join us in the petition drive. We intend to take this campaign to every corner of this Province and we will be victorious.

We must also address the fact that, despite the defeat of the BC-STV System, people do not like the current voting system either. I believe that if we offer a change that is simpler, fairer and easier to understand than the BC-STV System, the vast majority of the voters in BC will support it. Our Party supports the “Preferential Balloting System” and would like to see it instituted in time for the next election. We may be able to accomplish that with a petition drive.

I am inviting everyone who agrees with us to join in these battles. This will be the most important thing anyone has ever done for this Province and you can be a part of it. You can help us to save British Columbia. Please contact our Secretary and volunteer to help us build this Party.

Then we will work together to continue building this Party. We will sell new memberships, build constituency organizations and recruit more candidates. Then we will be in a position to win the next election and form the Government of British Columbia.


Wilf Hanni,

Party Leader.

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