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Will the B.C. interior have a bigger voice in Victoria?

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Morris noted having a premier from the interior is not unprecedented: W.A.C. Bennett and his son Bill, who were by turns premier for most of the years between 1952 and 1986, were from Kelowna. (Going much further back, Dr. John Duncan McLean, who was premier in 1927-28, was from Greenwood. He had previously been a schoolteacher in Rossland.)

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Will the B.C. interior have a bigger voice in Victoria?

Politics
Morris noted having a premier from the interior is not unprecedented: W.A.C. Bennett and his son Bill, who were by turns premier for most of the years between 1952 and 1986, were from Kelowna. (Going much further back, Dr. John Duncan McLean, who was premier in 1927-28, was from Greenwood. He had previously been a schoolteacher in Rossland.)

How can the B.C. NDP win back voters after their election setback?

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The B.C. NDP is promising a hard look at what went wrong after its crushing Oct. 24 election loss.
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