This Was Our Berlin Moment

THE BC PROVINCIAL ELECTION OF 2026

This is a guest post by BC author, Tim Murray with thanks!

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Above: On November 10^th of 1989 East and West Berliners picked up hammers and chisels to tear down the symbol of Communist tyranny and failed  socialist economics.  After Ronald Reagan famously implored “Mr. Gorbachev” to “take down that wall”, impatient  Berliners decided to do it themselves. It had  divided them for 28 years and they were tired of waiting for divine intervention.  Well British Columbians grew  tired of waiting too. They seized the opportunity that a cynical opportunist afforded them by calling an unnecessary snap election and they took a wrecking ball to an incorrigibly doctrinaire regime  intent on doubling down on its  disastrous policies.

Arguably the most incompetent and tyrannical government in Canadian history was toppled by BC voters on October 24th 2026 . I was one of them. Now I know how Berliners felt 37 years ago when they used sledgehammers to break down the wall. It is the same feeling that American marines and sailors felt when they saw the stars and stripes appear on the top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. The same feeling I had when I saw TV images of the Freedom Convoy pass by ordinary Canadians of all hues who braved freezing temperatures to cheer them on, some hanging maple leaf flags from highway overpasses.

These are the moments and images that one never forgets.

You hold onto them because they remind you that when things look hopeless and you are on the brink of giving up on the human race, there are people out there who think independently and have not succumbed to scaremongering, indoctrination and mass psychosis. These brave hearts are not content to be passive bystanders. They are prepared to act on their beliefs and push back in the face of intimidation and vilification. On October 24th B.C. voters used the ballot box to do the pushing.

History informs me that it is unwise to invest all of your hopes in politicians or believe that a new government will solve all of the problems that a defeated one left us. For most of us, this was not so much a vote for the opposition party but a renunciation of a manifestly bad one. As Churchill observed, if there is not a political party worth voting for, there is always one worth voting against. And David Eby gave us so much to vote against: Historically unprecedented debt and deficit levels, rising debt servicing costs that exceed the costs of all but two ministries, secret treaties with aboriginal tribes that threaten property rights, harm reduction policies that fueled an opioid crisis, ideologically driven education policies that are more concerned with allowing children to transition than to learn how to read and write, human rights tribunals that resemble kangaroo courts which make outrageous rulings, a strangulating bureaucracy that crushed free enterprise, the obstruction of Alberta’s exports of oil and natural gas and all the insanity financed with ever rising taxes….the list goes on.

On October 24th the majority of BC voters decided to flush the toilet. Done.

Tim Murray

October 25, 2026