ROTHENBURGER: Wilkinson’s leadership hangs in the balance this week
KAMLOOPS — IN THE WANING DAYS of the provincial election, BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson has been distracted from his key policy promises — such as suspending the provincial sales tax — by unwanted controversies involving his candidates.
The latest is Chilliwack MLA Laurie Throness, who expressed the view during a forum that an NDP proposal for free contraception “contains a whiff of the old eugenics thing.”
Eugenics is population engineering to increase desirable human characteristics. The comment didn’t raise any eyebrows at the forum but the NDP pounced, and Throness is now an ex-Liberal candidate running as an independent.