BC NDP need to start raising their profile with voters: professor

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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The leader of BC’s opposition New Democrats addressed supporters at a rally this weekend, previewing the issues he’ll be campaigning on ahead of the election on May 9.

But political science professor Hamish Telford at the University of the Fraser Valley says John Horgan’s first order of business should be to address his relative anonymity among voters.

He suggests if you asked ten people on the streets of downtown Vancouver, nine of them may not be able to name the NDP leader, let alone his stance on the issues.

“I think it represents a problem,” Telford says. “If he expects people to elect him to be premier of the province, they have to know who he is, and (have) a sense of what he believes in and what he stands for.”

He suggests Horgan would do well to secure some TV airtime to get his image and message out there before Christie Clark’s Liberals beat him to the punch.

“Last time the Liberals got ads up about Adrian Dix, and negatively defined him before British Columbians really got the chance to get to know him.”

Horgan told supporters that if elected, he would introduce a $15 per hour minimum wage, and $10 per day childcare.

He also pledged to implement the full recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Agreement, and commit to a firm stance with the federal government regarding oil tanker traffic along the BC coast.

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