David Eby

There are two clear directions: build up our province, protect our people, support British Columbia, fight back — and the Conservative vision.

This moment that we are in, with new threats every day, with escalating threats and actions from the United States, requires a choice from British Columbians about how we respond.

The threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump and his trade war represented an 'existential moment' for B.C.

British Columbians deserve the chance to choose whether we build on our progress or put B.C. at risk by rolling over for Donald Trump.

When you smell smoke you don’t sit and wait to see what happens next.

You bet your ass we would.

After all of the president's bad behaviour, after everything that he's done, if Americans ever had to face the same kind of horrors that they did on 11 September, would Canadians step up in the same way?

“We need to be our own best customers, and that is what today’s message is all about.”

“All I can say is that the president is clearly unhinged,” Eby said. “Those memes are bizarre.”

“And that’s why today ... we’re all asking British Columbians, my colleagues and I, to do what we always do in moments when our neighbors are in distress: We have to look out for one another. We have to buy Canadian whenever we can.”

“The road ahead is not easy,” Eby said during the presentation in Victoria. “And while we’ll continue building new opportunities, there is no getting around the fact that people will lose their jobs and businesses will close on both sides…

“Welcome to B.C., Canada. Strong, proud and never the 51st state. Sorry!”