He insisted throughout that he was willing to work with either main party, although the bitterness between him and NDP leader John Horgan was on display many times during Weaver's four years as a lone Green MLA. "I'm really excited. I came into tonight with an terrible lot of confidence that we had done what it would take".
Without a 44-seat majority in the legislature, either the Liberals or NDP would have to negotiate with the Greens to form a government. "We'll get decisions but they will take longer, they will often be more complicated because there will be layered issues in those compromises". Two seats were added after the 2013 election. Regardless, absentee ballots will be counted sometime between May 22nd and May 24th and that's when a final tally will be officially released.
He also stuck to policy-driven messages during the campaign and criticized the NDP for pushing voters to reject the Greens to help them oust Clark's Liberals, saying it was a form of voter suppression. When W.A.C. Bennett defeated the Liberal-Conservative coalition government in 1952, his minority lasted less than a year before opponents brought the government down.
Clark thanked her supporters, as well as those on the opposing campaigns for standing up for what they believe in.
Weaver said the Greens are open to talking to both the Liberals and New Democrats about governing, but until the votes are counted it's too early to discuss political deals. The Green Party led in 3 districts, headed for potentially its best performance ever.
The political commentariate is ruminating over the dozens of "what if?" scenarios following Tuesday's provincial election, which resulted in a hung legislature.
Many ridings were close races, none more so than Courtenay-Comox on Vancouver Island, where the NDP candidate beat the Liberal by nine votes.
The Liberals held 47 seats in the previous legislature, the NDP had 35, the Greens one and two were held by independents.
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"That's their base. If we look at the map of the electorate, the Liberals won a lot in the Interior and in the North".
A riding can go to a more formal judicial recount if "the difference between the votes received by the candidate declared elected and the candidate with the next highest number of votes is less than 1/500 of the total ballots considered", according to the B.C. Elections Act.
During the election, the Building Trades praised Horgan for his pledge to fund the mayor's transit plan, committing to use local British Columbia skilled labour and creating apprenticeship opportunities through a Project Labour Agreement.
"Site C is being constructed for an industry that does not exist, the LNG industry, and so desperate are the BC Liberals to actually land LNG that they sign contracts to subsidize LNG ... to the tune of 6 cents a kilowatt hour", said Weaver. She also predicted the Liberals would strengthen their margin of victory after absentee ballots are counted.
Weaver for his part is playing it coy.
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When asked whether Kinder Morgan is concerned about the British Columbia election, President Ian Anderson said its pipeline project continues to move forward. "They voted for action on climate change, and they voted for an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top".
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