British Columbia’s Liberal landslide
The province’s New Democrats head for extinction
RARE is the politician who concedes defeat before rather than after an election. But that is what Ujjal Dosanjh, British Columbia's premier, did this week, saying that he accepted that he would not form a new government after the province's vote on May 16th.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “British Columbia’s Liberal landslide”
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