Interim BC Conservative Party Leader Scott Anderson of Vernon is condemning the BC Liberal partyB次元官网网址檚 use of the term B次元官网网址渋llegitimate governmentB次元官网网址� in reference to B.C.B次元官网网址檚 governing NDP.

In a twitter video, Shuswap Liberal MLA Greg Kyllo referred twice to the current NDP government as B次元官网网址渋llegitimate.B次元官网网址� Rich Coleman, interim leader of the BC Liberal Party, subsequently retweeted the video.

is nothing more than a power grab by the in exchange for propping up the illegitimate . It will deny any voice in beyond the lower mainland. Stand up for your right to local and involved representation, BC.

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B次元官网网址淚t is one thing to be sore losers when a party loses an election to another party,B次元官网网址� said Anderson. B次元官网网址淏ut it is quite another to take that a step further and irresponsibly imply that the resulting government is in some way unlawful or improper.

B次元官网网址淢y concern is that this tactic of trying to delegitimize a duly elected political opponent is not just a vulgar attack on another political party - in this case the NDP - but an attack on our form of government. It calls into question the foundations of our very democracy by suggesting that in spite of following the letter and spirit of the law, the result is still unlawful.B次元官网网址�

Anderson said Canada has one of the most respected forms of government in the world, B次元官网网址渞esponsible for maintaining an orderly transfer of power between parties since B.C. entered Confederation in 1871.B次元官网网址�

KylloB次元官网网址檚 comments, said Anderson, are an attack to the process.

B次元官网网址淚 can understand why one relatively inexperienced MLA might have an irresponsible slip of the tongue, twice, on a published video,B次元官网网址� said Anderson. B次元官网网址淏ut to have that irresponsible statement endorsed and further disseminated by the interim leader of a Canadian political party is frankly outrageous.

B次元官网网址淣either I nor the BC Conservative Party are happy with the fact that B.C. is once again under an NDP government. But we live in Canada, not in a banana republic, and I suggest that the BC Liberals try to remember that and behave with a little more decorum.B次元官网网址�

Anderson is currently a councillor for the City of Vernon.

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