'It's politics': Kevin Falcon says BC NDP dropped vaccine mandate because of election fears

BC United Leader Kevin Falcon has accused the BC NDP government of dropping the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health workers over fears it could hurt the party’s election chances.

Falcon, who has long attacked the requirement, told NowMedia he thinks the reason the order was rescinded on Friday was “politics.”

“Over the last two years, I've had nothing but cynicism, snide remarks, attacks by the NDP, by [Health Minister] Dix, by all of their left-wing followers, about how irresponsible my position was.

“But you go look at the charts from two years ago, what the COVID rate of infections are, and you look at today, and they are virtually indistinguishable.”

The mandate, he said, “was not founded on science or evidence.” Instead, the province was “punishing [unvaccinated] workers … because of NDP ideology.”

[misty]

B.C. Conservative is the way to go. Rebranding the liberals is not good enough.

[Steezycheese]

What comes after a failed rebrand.. a failed political party and Eby is annoying and hard to work with. There is really only one option as the polls are consistently reflecting each release.

[laurieedeburn]

50 years ago the ones that fell thru cracks of all sorts of ailments.. were helped... gov stopped... never should have

[TheRabidne]

We're not confused... we KNOW they are separate parties.

It's frankly insulting that he keeps trying to gaslight and insinuate this of the public.