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NANAIMO — As the campaign for the B.C. Liberal leadership enters its third month, the prime target for the veterans in the field remains party newcomer Dianne Watts, the former mayor of Surrey.

“You talk a lot about a new vision for B.C., but the details of that vision have been fairly limited,” challenged former transportation minister Todd Stone during a leadership debate in Nanaimo on Sunday. “Could you share exactly what this fresh new vision is that you propose?”

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“Why thank you very much Todd,” replied Watts, sounding not in the least grateful.

“One of the things that I have always spoken about and I will continue to speak about in terms of going forward with a vision,” she continued in one of her typically vague answers. “One of the things that we can do is really talk about some of the fundamental issues.”

Such as?

“One of the things that we did not do is deal with the opioid crisis. Now we look at people dying in the street and in homes, we look at all of the issues there that need to be dealt with,” she rambled.