Sihota says reluctance to go for jugular in last election deep-sixed Dix, NDP

Vaughn Palmer - The Vancouver Sun
The campaign as a whole was weak, not just the positive message Dix wanted to run with. Top to bottom, weak. In all honesty, I don't even remember what the BC NDP had actually campaigned on. It wasn't as though they managed to get their message out, and I'd attended a few gatherings.
Even now, perusing the BC NDP's current platform, I'm struck at how... bland it all is. Nothing exciting. Nothing new. Just the same old safe promises. Raise the minimum wage. Solve the housing crisis. Oppose Kinder Morgan. I agree with all that, but I'm having a hard time getting up for it all.
The BC NDP does understand we're facing a world-wide crisis, right now, as pertaining to climate change, right? Were the BC NDP to promise we would begin work, as of right now, yesterday even, on bringing BC to the forefront of green technology, world-wide, I'd jump onto their platform in a heartbeat.
Were the BC NDP to pick a fight with the federal government in regards to NAFTA, and the TPP, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to join in.
A public post-secondary education option. Stronger agricultural policy. Reduction in mining. Revitalizing BC's forests.
There's a world of policies the BC NDP could adopt, but there's nothing in their current platform which even suggests real change. Nothing of real substance. Nothing the BC voter can bite into, and chew on.

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