THE OUTSIDERS
Not into voting for the usual
suspects? A look around the province
offers plenty of alternative parties that
will gladly take your vote—just don’t call
them “fringe.”VANCOUVER ISLAND PART Y
The flag outside Robin Rich-
ardson’s trailer in Nanaimo
depicts a pine cone, a
beaver, a caduceus (a staff
with two snakes on it) and
the Union Jack. It’s rarely
seen on Vancouver Island,
much less elsewhere in B.C., but
Richardson, a one-time MP for the Progressive
Conservatives in Ontario, believes it should be
the flag of a whole new province: an indepen-
dent Vancouver Island. He founded the party
about a year ago, aiming to galvanize support
for a separatist Island agenda.YOUR POLITICAL PARTY OF B.C.
Vancouver electrician
James Filippelli grew up
glued to the television
on every election night,
whether it was for the next
American president, B.C.
premier or Vancouver mayor.
He decided to start his own party
to add more options to the dominant pro-
vincial roster of either the BC Liberals or the
NDP. His party promises to boost transpar-
ency by making all government documents
and communications freely accessible with-
out filing an access request.B.C. SOCIAL CREDIT PARTY
Carrol Woolsey doesn’t
want to run again for the
Social Credit Party, but
she’ll keep doing it if it
keeps the party alive. After
seeing the party deregis-
tered in 2013 for failing to field
enough candidates, Woolsey is
hoping the Socreds can make a comeback by
appealing to the political nostalgia of folks old
enough to remember when the party won 11
of B.C.’s 31 elections. Meanwhile, she hopes
younger voters will be wooed by the Socreds’
possible status as an alternative to the BC
Liberals and the NDP with its goals of reject-
ing the 15 percent foreign homebuyers tax and
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