BRITISH COLUMBIA

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 51, 7 September 1928, Page 9

BRITISH COLUMBIA

CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT

(From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVER, 25th July. At the British Columbia General Elections, the Liberal Party, in power for twelve years, was swept away, the Conservatives being returned with 35 seats in a House of 48. Labour, which supported the Liberals, was also decimated, only one Labourite, for the mining centre of Fernie, near tho Alberta and Washington boundary, being returned. The people wanted a change. To tho Liberals fell tho lot of introducing Stale control of liquor. The administration of liquor brought out charges of every known or imagined form of patronage, protection, and assurance, which, in less Parliamentary terms, have been referred to by the Government's critics as political corruption. A dominant', issue of the election was the prospect of the Canadian Government taking over, through the Canadian National Railway, tho Pacific Great Eastern Railway, in which ten millions sterling have been sunk, and on which profits are exceedingly raro, owing to the fact that the line nds at Squamish, forty miles from A rancouvor, and at Quesnel, fifty miles short of the transcontinental service at Prince George in the North. The issue is still unsolved., Tho Liberal Government at Ottawa, undertook to solve it if the Liberals were returned in British Columbia. It remains to Tin seen how far they will aid their political opponents in solving it.