Premier Clark has clearly been damaged in the eyes of those that follow BC politics closely by last week's sequence of events but it remains to be seen whether the nature and extent of her lack of judgment and scruples registers with the segment of the general public that heretofore has supported the BC Liberals through thick and thin.  

Logically, last week is not by itself alone the basis for a dramatic, sustained drop in support for the BC Liberals but it does set the stage for such a drop provided the NDP and Greens are able to follow through with (a) further credible critiques of the rather hollow economic and social policy and administration performance by the Premier and her Party over the past decades, and (b) persuasive arguments why they, the NDP or Greens, can do better.

There is a public yearning for a change but also a residual but weakening hesitancy to commit to the NDP as yet.