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Political Capital 8 - Premier struggles with blaming youth, Greens propose lockdown

Sometimes it really is too late to apologize, the Greens stake out a position on pandemic response, and will the BC Liberals Just Dew It?
Maclean Kay, Rob Shaw
Premier John Horgan struggles to get out from under criticism for blaming young people about COVID-19 spread two weeks later, the BC Greens propose a sweeping three-week lockdown and restaurants get a partial bailout.
Host Rob Shaw is joined by Katy Merrifield, Maclean Kay, and Jilian Oliver to discuss all the news in BC politics.

Find all episodes at cheknews.ca/politicalcapital and https://www.spreaker.com/show/4783111/episodes/feed

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  Rob Shaw has spent more than 13 years covering BC politics, now reporting for CHEK News and writing for The Orca. He is the co-author of the national best-selling book A Matter of Confidence, and a regular guest on CBC Radio. Jillian Oliver is a political strategist who co-managed the last BC Green Party provincial campaign and Sonia Furstenau’s leadership campaign. She was Communications Director on the federal Nanaimo-Ladysmith by-election that elected Paul Manly and was the BC Greens Press Secretary in the 2017 provincial election and in the BC Greens legislative office from 2017-2019. Katy Merrifield is the Vice-President for BC at Wellington Advocacy, who has served as Communications Director to Premiers of both Alberta and British Columbia, and was the youngest woman to run a winning leadership campaign in BC.  Maclean Kay is Editor-in-Chief of The Orca, and is an 11-year veteran of the BC legislature both working in government and now covering it. 

SWIM ON:

  • Political Capital 7 discussed political headaches - which come in all forms.
  • Maclean Kay: Public health messaging has needed to change for a while – but telling millennials "don't blow it for the rest of us" was several steps backwards.
  • In UnSpun 118, Jody Vance and George Affleck talk COVID blame game, vaccine envy, and the latest in the soap opera that is Vancouver municipal politics.