What can MLA Elayne Brenzinger expect after her bolt from the provincial Liberal party? The Tyee’s Chris Tenove asks the last guy to do it, Paul Nettleton.
Allan Warnke, a former Liberal MLA who messily split with the party in 1996, says that Liberal leader Gordon Campbell has demanded absolute loyalty from MLAs since becoming leader in 1993. “If you showed any independent thought or critiqued a policy,” Warnke says, “you got into trouble right away.”
