Wie ein Zoomer Anführer der BC Green Party wurde
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/09/29/How-Zoomer-Became-Leader-BC-Green-Party/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
Wie ein Zoomer Anführer der BC Green Party wurde
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/09/29/How-Zoomer-Became-Leader-BC-Green-Party/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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Her campaign is extremely economically illiterate. Price caps on groceries, vacancy control, tax hikes, blocking major infrastructure projects. It’s a doubling down on anti-supply economics. It’s a full campaign on supply-and-demand denialism.
I have my usual skepticism around Lowan. Her policies seem to lack details especially on implementation grounds (BC is under a massive deficit), and her messaging appears juvenile at best. Even then, however, she does possess great energy and willingness to engage on SMS. Her pros were those that other two sorely lacked, so it doesn’t surprise me one bit that she won.
Now, her next challenge will be to figure where she will run next for a seat. Will it be in Victoria, where she is likely to lose heavy or risk vote split? Woll she be taking over in Saanich North which is by all means safer of two Greens seats, but won’t be so surefire.
Or would Lowan consider an inland BC seat that could actually give her an edge to target voters disaffected by the BCNDP but would rather avoid BC Conservative whose lunacy only grows each passing week?
Lots of dillemma left to be answered, but also decent potential. Lots of work cut out for Lowan, but that is to be expected with any Greens leader.
So I’m a (largely inactive) party member who voted in the leadership election. I was going to vote for Jonathan Kerr because I had the same skepticism around a 25-year-old running the party, but Emily’s platform was shockingly well-written and she put on one hell of a campaign while Dr. Kerr’s platform was kind of just standard for the Greens, so I went for her instead. Her platform certainly had *a lot* of points in it, so I still have some skepticism about how much can be accomplished and how much of it is feasible, but campaign-wise, she actually seems to know what she’s doing, which is exactly what the BC Greens need right now.
More younger people in politics is a good thing and being a Green Party provincial leader is good practice towards something else in the future. One need not get bent out of shape about her policies since they’re not going to affect anybody in any way. Good for her!