Posted to FaceBook, by me, via greenparty.ca:
It's Mr. Horgan's option. That's the way parliamentary democracy works.
But this is not the time. Despite the foolish result FPTP delivered in the last election, it's been reasonably stable and is only preventing things widely opposed by most of the voters from occurring. Maybe FPTP would deliver a majority to Mr. Horgan if he were to call an election, but maybe it wouldn't.
Run out your term, Mr. Horgan. Introduce sensible electoral reform, like my own "Regionalized Proportionality", so that future governments look more like the will of the people, where politicians MUST collaborate, co-operate, and submit to mutual accountability -- rather than the Manichean roulette wheel which is the only kind of electoral world that I have ever known in BC.
Then and only then call an election. That's what a real leader would do.
