He doesn’t have to cite the REAL reasons: David Eby can blame “wanting to spend more time with his family”; personal health issues; yearning for a new professional challenge; or, he just needs more time to read the blogs.
Of course, Eby won’t admit how British Columbians have tired of his endless pandering/give-aways/caving in to First Nations militants; BC’s skyrocketing debt under his “leadership”; the crisis so many voters are now facing dealing with affordability; the continuing problems with BC Health Care; people’s ongoing fears for their public safety, as criminals and crazies run amok; or, maybe worst of all, the disastrous state of BC’s investment/development economy.
Let’s keep it real: Eby HAS to go … if the NDP is to have ANY chance of being re-elected when the voters get their chance to speak their minds.
“Support for the B.C. Conservative party has increased, even before its new leader is chosen, while the governing NDP’s popularity continues to show signs of waning, a new Leger poll has found,” The Vancouver Sun reported April 10th.
At that time, the NDP was still ahead, garnering 44% support, down 4% from the previous Leger survey; the Conservatives were up 2% to 40%.
And that was without a new Conservative leader yet being chosen.
“If I was the NDP I’d be a bit worried about that. … It’s not alarm bells yet, but it should be concerning,” said Leger vice-president Steve Mossop. (Read the details here: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-conservatives-gain-ground-before-leadership-vote-as-ndp-support-softens-poll.)
In fact, just weeks earlier, Angus Reid had the Conservatives ahead: 44% to 42% … again, despite having no new leader making promises, taking stands, catering to growing hopes for change.
And Eby’s personal popularity in the same poll stood at only 37% … third lowest of the nine Premiers rated by voters.
“New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Eby’s approval rating has declined 16-points year-over-year. In March 2025, when most premiers enjoyed a bump in popularity as nationalism surged in the face of tariffs and threats from U.S. President Donald Trump, Eby was approved by a record-high of 53 per cent of British Columbians. Now, just 37 per cent say the same,” the Institute noted.
And that was BEFORE Eby caved so humiliatingly on DRIPA in the face of First Nations pressures, threats. (Read the full story here: https://angusreid.org/premiers-performance-march-2026/.
Can hardly wait for the next post-DRIPA Eby “popularity” survey!
However, the truth is the reasons behind Eby’s decline in popularity go well beyond DRIPA: my impression is the public today sense an insensitivity, arrogance in the Premier; and, many also feel a sense of betrayal … in the face of mounting costs of living and yet, ever-increasing taxes, fees and BC debt.
In fact, BC’s projected deficit this year under Eby will top $11 Billion; the provinces debt will hit $155 Billion …and is reportedly growing at more than $45 million a day! (This from a Premier who inherited a surplus!)
And yet, the province’s unemployment rate in March hit 6.7% … the highest in a decade (apart from the Covid pandemic) … and the province in March lost 19,000 jobs, on top of the 20,200 BC lost in February.
Nor can all the blame be attributed to US tariffs.
““We’ve had losses in wholesale trade, we’ve had transportation, warehousing, finance, insurance, a very broad base in terms of our economy right now, it seems, for some of those losses,” Bryan Yu, a chief economist with Central 1, told Global News.
All Canadian provinces are facing stresses from the Mad Hatter’s tariffs, especially Ontario. So it really says a lot when so many thousands of British Columbians still leave home to seek jobs elsewhere!
If Eby cares at all about the future of the NDP in BC, its time to go … and give the party a chance to rebuild, refocus and maybe even repent to the majority of BC voters … under a new leader.
Meanwhile, I’d love to read Eby’s “CV”, listing his “job accomplishments” over the past four years, when he looks for a new job.
Should be quite a hoot!
Harv Oberfeld
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Historical note.
A late freind of mine was an engineer for BC Ferries and made a lot of “overtime” trying to make the famed Fast Ferries able to operate on routes that they were not designed for and in the end they became an Albatros around the NDP’s proverbial necks.
They were warned over and over to abandon the project but the Premier Glen Clark and is cohort knew better, or they thought so.
The NDP never admitted they were wrong.
The result, in the 2001 provincial election, the NDP were routed, winning only 2 seats.
Today, playing the part of Glen Clark, is David Eby. With DRIPA is hanging around the neck of David Eby like the proverbial Albatross, the NDP is set to loose every seat in the next election.
Eby, the NDP’s elite’s (the Vision Vancouver crowd) “fair haired boy” ensured his election as party leader. This has caused some displeasure with the party members as he was considered to be a dud.
Today, Eby is seen not as a dud but a terminal liability.
It’s just not Eby, but the NDP who are reminding the electorate of W.A.C. Bennett’s quote about the NDP; “that they could not run a peanut stand”.
If Eby had any moral backbone, he would quit now and let the party elect a new leader and hopefully a new direction because if they don’t, the party faces a complete wipe out.
Our politcal system needs a competent opposition because if not, we will see a rerun of the Campbell years by a cadre of anti vaxers; anti science; anti climate change; Maple MAGA’s who will turn BC into a mini Trumpian landscape (they don’t read history either!).
I am not holding my breathe that the NDP will oust Eby, but someone in the party must publicly state that Eby has been a failure, worse he is a politcal coward!
Eby is un-electable, in fact he is, with his floundering with DRIPA, radioactive with the voter.
Will Eby do the right thing, probably not because the NDP will never, ever admit that they were wrong and that will, in the end, plunge the province under the control of what I perceive, American style MAGA nutters.
(Response: No way would the NDP lose all their seats next time around, even under Eby. In some ridings, the party or local seasoned MLAs are just too firmly entrenched. BUT the last election was so very close and I just can’t fathom ..with all that’s transpired in just a few months … that Eby would/could survive another voter test. If he cares at all about the party, he will walk and give his replacement a chance to change course and rebuild public confidence … before he loses and then gets the bum’s rush! Ho)