James Moore/CTV: Where Premier Eby ultimately failed is that he presumed the voters were stupid. He presumed the voters would not see the obvious cynicism of his attempt to take advantage of the disarray of the Conservative Party. He presumed voters wouldn’t find that cynicism odious and unworthy of someone who held the office of the premier of the province of British Columbia.
He arrogantly assumed that British Columbians didn’t know that his government had a functioning majority government that had just passed the provincial budget and was cruising through the rest of the calendar year with a wafer-thin legislative agenda that would withstand any confidence vote for at least another six months, if not more…