VICTORIA—Former British Columbia premier Dave Barrett, the scrappy but always smiling leader of the province’s first New Democrat government, has died in Victoria. Barrett made political history when his left leaning New Democrats defeated the five-term Social Credit juggernaut governments of W.A.C. Horgan said he was working in Ottawa when Barrett was elected as a federal New Democrat in the late 1980s. He was so brash and so out there, and holding court.”But it was Barrett’s political rivalry with the Bennett family, former premiers W.A.C. In Opposition in 1964, Barrett pressed the government to preserve forest land in Cypress Bowl from development and in 1975, as premier, Barrett established Cypress Park.

Source: thestar February 02, 2018 23:48 UTC