Last month, former BC Premier Mike Harcourt (1991-1995) quit the NDP, frustrated by some of the positions the party has taken since he led it to victory, and by political gaffes that cost it the election. He criticized the NDP for sending the wrong message to working-class rural communities that survive on resource extraction, because just before the election it opposed the Kinder-Morgan Pipeline.
Does he see two economic futures for the province, one urban, the other rural and resource-based? Is a political transition to less-intensive resource policies possible? Or is it resource extraction that makes urban life possible?
When: Thursday June 5, 2014
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Room 1600, SFU’s Vancouver Campus at Harbour Centre
Cost: Free.
