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VICTORIA — A leaked memo from the Steelworkers union suggests that the strained relationship with the New Democratic Party may partly be a function of the location of the provincial capital.

‘The B.C. NDP has always struggled to address the regional challenge created by the location of our province’s capital on Vancouver Island,” says the memo, prepared at the staff level earlier this year and leaked this week to The Vancouver Sun.

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“Victoria is a beautiful city, but it is unlike anywhere else in B.C. Whether its lack of diversity, or its economic reliance on the provincial government as the largest local employer, conversations in the capital do not necessarily reflect the rest of B.C.”

Yet as the memo goes on to underscore: “Victoria is not only the location of our legislature but also the largest cohort of political staff and leaders.”

This is especially true of the party in its current iteration.