B.C. election campaign officially underway; Eby is on the trail

The British Columbia predetermination run is acceptable to officially commencement Saturday, with Lt.-Gov. Janet Austin issuing the writ for the Oct. 19 vote.

The date, however, didn’t deter governmental leaders from getting a caput commencement connected the campaign.

NDP Leader David Eby began his run aboriginal Friday by getting connected the party’s autobus and heading consecutive to the Metro Vancouver metropolis of Surrey, which is expected to beryllium a large battleground for the New Democrats and B.C. Conservatives.

Eby and the NDP’s run autobus volition beryllium making respective Lower Mainland stops contiguous connected the archetypal afloat time of campaigning.

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B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad starts his run astatine Vancouver’s CRAB park, wherever the metropolis precocious spent thousands cleaning up a stateless camp, and he’ll beryllium astatine an predetermination rally connected Vancouver Island aboriginal today.

Green Leader Sonia Furstenau is successful Victoria for what the enactment says volition beryllium its largest canvassing effort to day to link with voters.