Earlier this year - former Finning and CanFor CEO Jim Shepherd and other unnamed individuals formed a new society called the Concerned Citizens For British Columbia
Vancouver Sun political columnist Vaughn Palmer looked at it in his column on June 12th which you can read here
Meanwhile, Shepherd was in Prince George this past Thursday to "reignite the free-enterprise spirit"
Shepherd also says:
The B.C. Conservatives had hopes of forming government, he said, but their support has leaked away, much of it back to the B.C. Liberals, based on conversations he was having with those previous supporters, and now the fringe party's main role in the coming election would be perhaps to split the vote and let NDP MLAs win in a few ridings, perhaps even enough to win government.
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"I'm going to step out as a private citizen and share what I've seen...I have worked with the NDP in government and with the B.C. Liberals in government, so I have an up-close view of both," he said. "Everyone can ask, are we better off after the B.C. Liberals' 10 years in government, or after the NDP's 10 years in government? I can tell you that we went from being an economic powerhouse to, under the NDP, an economic basketcase that had to accept hand-out cheques from Ottawa as a have-not province, then back to being economically back on track and prospering again even in extremely difficult times."
Read the Prince George Citizen article here
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