That backs up a recent poll by Research Co. that found dwindling support for the party from the very people who supported it in 2015.
The survey, released last week, found one-third of 2015 Liberal voters in B.C. think a different leader than Trudeau would do things better, while one in four thought “a different party would do things better in Ottawa as a government than the Liberals.” (The poll of 800 people had a 3.5 per cent margin of error).
In that election, British Columbia was home to nine of 70 narrow victories — ridings where Liberal candidates beat their opponents by less than five per cent of the ballots. That’s why experts say the Liberals need to be careful about risking B.C. ahead of this fall’s federal election, which must be held before Oct. 21.
One former resident of Jody Wilson-Raybould’s own riding, Vancouver-Granville, cast her first-ever Canadian election ballot for the Liberal Party in 2015, when the party swept to power across the country.
The Liberals won her vote because of their promises to do politics differently than the previous Conservative government. She cited Trudeau’s declaration that Canada’s “most important relationship” was with Indigenous people and his pledges of gender parity and climate-change action.
But Hayley Zacks won’t follow them again, she told the Star.
With files from Melanie Green
David P. Ball is a Vancouver-based reporter covering democracy and politics. Email him or follow him on Twitter: @davidpball
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