The B.C. NDP is set to announce this weekend the date for the leadership race and specifics on rules and entry fees. In order to vote in the leadership race, individuals must be members of the party for 90 days before the vote which puts pressure on candidates to sign up new members once the date for the leadership convention is announced.Article content
“I did want to kick the tires on it properly. I talked to a lot of people and took a lot of good advice,” Cullen said Wednesday during an unrelated press conference in Haida Gwaii. “But, in the end, I felt like it just wasn’t time for me or my family to take that next step up and to be able to do both jobs. Being a dad and a husband and a leader of a party fully, I didn’t see how I could do it.”
Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon, who would have been stiff competition for Eby after his work on the province’s economic recovery coming out of the pandemic, also cited his young son when he said last week he wouldn’t run. Kahlon threw his support behind the attorney general, giving Eby the heft of Kahlon’s political organizing experience.
Bowinn Ma, minister of state for infrastructure, has not said if she’s running but last week she released a Twitter thread calling for the new leader to be a “climate champion.”Article content
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