Clark sits at 14 per cent, while Weaver is at 12 per cent.
Steele & Drex spoke to both Mussatto and B.C. NDP leader John Horgan about what the election promises could mean for the future of commuting.
That's putting the ball back in the mayors' court, since the mayors' council just last week launched a campaign asking each party to spell out their plans for funding public transit.
Half as many respondents, 28 per cent, said the "Clark government has done a good job and deserves re-election". Former Olympic rower and silver medallist Dave Calder, who is running for the Liberals in Saanich South, played host to the event that drew Liberal candidates from across southern Vancouver Island.
"I think the issue will be the same in every riding this election".
The B.C. Liberal government has refused to introduce a feed-in-tariff system for individual British Columbians.
"We can afford to do this because our economy is growing, because we're controlling government spending and we're creating jobs", she said. Clark and Horgan were virtually tied on crime and public safety, according to the results.
An NDP defeat in B.C. due to increased support for the Greens could make the case for a more environmentalist NDP at the federal level - and potentially widen the divide between the Alberta New Democrats and their cousins in Ottawa.
British Columbia's Office of the Ombudsperson has said eight health-care researchers should not have been fired in 2012 over allegations of potential privacy violations and found the workers did nothing wrong.
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"When Jean needed that hospital it wasn't there for her because of the choices BC Liberals have made".
This election comes down to whether voters want change from what the Liberals and NDP have traditionally offered, said Weaver.
"I'm very confident that the ideas that we're putting forward will have a very positive effect on the economy", she said.
Of those polled by Insights West, almost 80 per cent said they were decided voters.
A Liberal official said the party was reviewing McArthur's response, but did not comment further. "But among voters over the age of 35, it is essentially a tie".
At the same time, of respondents over the age of 55, almost half (48 per cent) said they'd be "very upset" to see the NDP return to power.
The survey provided hope for parties trying to unseat the BC Liberals with 56 per cent of respondents saying they felt it was "time for another provincial party to take over".
British Columbia's Liberal party began its bid for a fifth straight majority government on Tuesday as Christy Clark touted her government's record on job creation and balanced budgets while warning the opposition parties would risk economic growth with higher taxes and deficits.
Still, nearly two-thirds of respondents said they believe it's time for a change of government, including 33 per cent who voted for the Liberals in the last provincial election.
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