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It's fucking bizarre... but you need to remember that the interior is conservative as fuck and BC basically has Canada's bible belt.
The BC interior is weird: they spend so much of their political lives as the little brother to the economic powerhouse at the population centers that they're easily swayed by "Victoria isn't listening and Vancouver isn't sharing its pork" rhetoric, which is really how BC people see Ottawa and Ontario : Ottawa and Toronto don't know us and don't care. They're really ripe for a "white guy endangered by immigrant" kind of mild hate as well, which makes the emo like three layers deep.
So they're going to vote single-issue protectionism/isolationism and they'll accept any amount of human rights abuses and xenophobia if they can get it, effectively forgetting they didn't even get that from vanderzalm.
They'll believe any lie about American-style healthcare savings them money because they're voting for some fairy tale about recognition, job protection, and magical wealth that comes from "Vancouver taking notice" and "Ottawa taking notice" and other rebellious-teen themes.