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Falcon began teasing his campaign launch on Thursday through a post on Twitter that said “Ready?” and another on Saturday that said “Set…” His campaign said he’d make the announcement at 7 p.m. Monday via Facebook.
A year after winning his seat in 2017, Lee ran for the B.C. Liberal leadership race in 2018, finishing third behind Andrew Wilkinson and Dianne Watts.
Watts is said to be a key part of Falcon’s campaign team. Falcon ran for the Liberal leadership race in 2011, but narrowly lost to Christy Clark.
Falcon spent 12 years in the Liberal government which included roles as minister of state for deregulation, transportation minister and health minister under Campbell and finance minister and deputy premier under Clark.
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FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – Bill 7, the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, could reduce the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly from the province’s northern region.
Attorney General David Eby introduced the bill on Monday. Every two general elections, the Electoral Boundaries Commission evaluates the boundaries and the number of constituents in each riding, making boundary changes to try and evenly distribute residents among MLAs.
This process doesn’t work the same way in rural British Columbia. Take Peace River North MLA Dan Davies, for example. ),whenLoaded(initFlexitive);
“My riding right now is almost 170,000 square kilometres. It’s a challenge, but I manage. Under this new proposal, we could be looking at super ridings. Three or four MLAs would represent the entire northern two-thirds of our province. Can you imagine representing from Fort St. John to Prince George and all the way north,” says Davies.