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Former NDP minister joins BC United

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 11 May, 2023 01:39 PM

A former New Democrat cabinet minister says he joining the Opposition B-C United.

Harry Lali, who was a transportation and highways minister in the late 1990s for the New Democrats, says the N-D-P is now an urban interest party with little focus on issues and challenges facing rural communities.

Lali, who's 68, was first elected in 1991 in the Merritt-area Yale-Lillooet riding, and re-elected to four terms, before being defeated in 2013.

Lali says he now believes the best interests of resource-dependent, small-town rural B-C will be best served by Kevin Falcon's party.

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