BC NDP leader Adrian Dix doesn’t think a merger between the BC Liberals and BC Conservatives will help improve the governing party’s fortunes.
Speaking on the Bill Good show on CKNW, Dix says a name change won’t help the party either.
“I think they misunderstand and disrespect voters. The lesson from Chilliwack-Hope and Port Moody-Coquitlam is not that the Liberal Party needs to make elite deals to hang onto power, it’s that they’re not doing very well, they’re not responding to voters.”
But when reminded that the NDP contemplated a name change after being reduced to two seats in the 2001.
“Some people argued for that…I think what it showed was the resilience of the NDP over time.”
Dix says his party was back in the game by 2002, and in the 2005, the results were very close, because the party has responded to the needs of the people.
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