Federal Liberals face ‘wipeout’ in B.C. blue wave, say pollsters

Angus Reid’s Shachi Kurl says B.C. United sunk under a rising Conservative tide, and warns previously safe Vancouver federal Liberal ridings could face similar flooding.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal caucus held their summer retreat in Nanaimo, B.C., where provincial pollsters say the landscape is shaky for the party in the next federal election.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

September 11, 2024

The federal Liberals are hunkering down in Nanaimo, but the party faces a near-total "wipeout" in British Columbia as the rising Conservative tide threatens to breach even the Liberals' Vancouver bulwark, say pollsters.

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