Next BC NDP leader faces "reputational challenge" over deficit, ex-Horgan adviser says
A former adviser to the late premier John Horgan says the party's next leader must prove the NDP can be trusted with taxpayers' money.
Reported by Vancouver Is Awesome; adviser not named in the available text; BC government figures not yet reviewed.
Illustrative photoWhoever takes over the BC NDP will start with a "reputational challenge" on money, according to a former adviser to the late premier John Horgan.
The adviser said the task is proving the party can be trusted with taxpayers' money, Vancouver Is Awesome reported. The outlet's headline links that challenge to a deficit blowout.
The comment comes from someone who worked alongside Horgan, the former NDP premier, and it frames the party's finances as a question of trust as well as arithmetic. For Vancouver voters, who will be asked to judge the next leader on how public money is handled, that is the standard the adviser says the party must meet.
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