The vote to select a new leader must take place by Feb. 16, 2022.
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Publishing date: Feb 17, 2021 • February 17, 2021 • 1 minute read • B.C. Liberal Party leader Andrew Wilkinson makes a statement on election night, Oct. 24, 2020, at party headquarters in Vancouver. (Photo by Jason Payne/ PNG) (For story by Rob Shaw) ORG XMIT: electionliberals [PNG Merlin Archive] Photo by Jason Payne /PNG
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The former leader of the B.C. Liberal party has officially resigned, meaning the party has a year to select a successor.
Andrew Wilkinson handed in his letter of resignation Tuesday evening, the party’s acting president, Don Silversides, said in a statement.
Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond was elected interim Liberal leader by her caucus colleagues on Nov. 23 after former Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson stepped down following poor election results. The Liberals lost about a third of the 43 seats they’d won in 2017, and the electorate delivered a majority government to the New Democrats. Shut out of Vancouver Island completely, the Liberals won only 11 seats in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Bond has to embrace the values that small ‘l’ liberals hold in the more urban and sub-coastal regions, Brown said in an interview last month. “To be more respectful of the diversity of British Columbia, broadly, and really hit on the human issues, the human values, that the BC Liberal Party is supposed to represent, as vacated largely under Wilkinson and (Christy) Clark.”
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British Columbia's Liberal party took the first steps Thursday toward selecting a new leader while also addressing a constitutional technicality that still has Andrew Wilkinson as party leader.
VANCOUVER — British Columbia s Liberal party took the first steps Thursday towards selecting a new leader while also addressing a constitutional technicality that still has Andrew Wilkinson as party . . .