Climate scientist Andrew Weaver will run for the B.C. Green Party in Oak Bay-Gordon Head.
Photograph by: Bruce Stotesbury
, Times Colonist
The B.C. Green party candidate for Victoria’s Oak Bay-Gordon Head
riding says the New Democrats, spooked at his party’s chances in next
spring’s provincial election, asked him to step aside soon after he was
nominated in September.
Renowned climate scientist Andrew Weaver
announced on Twitter Wednesday night that friend and former federal NDP
candidate Michael Byers called him the day after the nomination to offer
a deputy minister position in any potential B.C. NDP government if
Weaver would step aside.
“I had no intention of ever saying
anything,” Weaver said of the private conversation. He said he is
disclosing the phone call now because NDP supporters are starting to
launch Twitter attacks on him about various environmental issues.
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