COLLINS: If your principles are compromised, what kind of person are you?
IT DOES NOT LOOK GOOD for the BC United party as we get closer to the October provincial election. The party has failed to capture the imagination of voters while the newly rejuvenated BC Conservative party is polling almost as strong as the NDP. Some very prominent BC United MLAs are defecting to the Conservatives, saying it’s the only way to prevent the NDP from gaining another four years in power.
But I question the value of giving up your principles for the sake of expediency. When you compromise your principles, in my view, you become a lesser person. To know you have sacrificed what you believe in just so you can be elected is a betrayal of your integrity.
Elenore Sturko, BC United’s spokesperson for addiction, mental health issues and the LBGTQ+ issues, has been critical of Conservative viewpoints on gender issues. Now that she’s defecting, does that criticism just go away? Do they now embrace the same philosophy?
The defections of Sturko and the Cariboo’s Lorne Doerksen may not be the last. If there are more defections, they will probably happen quickly, because there are already a number of Conservative candidates in place. Even Sturko will have to run in a different riding than the one she now represents.
