"With the political air filled with the stench of BC Liberal corruption, the NDP still couldn't cut through."

The majority of voters don't pay much attention to politics until election time, if then. As such, they are pawns of whichever advertising, vanilla-flavoured news story or coffee shop discussion they are exposed to. 

How many, for example, would know what an IPP is? Or that IPPs cost BC Hydro (and us) $800 million over the wholesale price of electricity in 2016? But: they sure know what Fast Ferries are… while not knowing the IPPs will be an annual drain on the economy, worse than three fast ferries being built and sunk each year. 

Much information on IPPs at https://in-sights.ca/?s=IPP