It is misguided that BC has “a thriving economy and the enviable job creation record”.  BC has a dangerously fragile economy of which 30% is currently dependent on a real-estate bubble that is crowding out many residents and enterprises that would employ those residents from suitable, affordable housing and economic opportunity. Income, wealth & urban/rural divides in consequence are exacerbated but the Liberals did as much as possible to prolong the bubble (increasing its danger and negative impacts) as they thought politically expedient. Whether articulated or not, most BC residents worry about the impact of this state of affairs.

Fear of bitumine spills in Burrard Inlet (i.e. Kinder Morgan) and of the annual cost of bridge tolls became issues that turned many eastern GVRD constituencies from the Liberals and provided the NDP with the margin that denied the BC Liberals a majority.