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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona

Italia. Quillette is where Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for

heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. You're about to hear a free preview

of this week's episode. To hear the full episode, and to get access to all our podcasts and articles,

visit us at Quillette.com and click the subscribe button. And this week we'll be examining the

strange and unique political culture of British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province.

As most Quillette listeners will know, Canada as a whole is a socially progressive country.

But even by progressive Canadian standards, British Columbia has become something of an outlier,

having embraced trends such as drug

decriminalization, transgender activism, environmentalism, DEI, and especially indigenous causes,

with extraordinary fervor. Moreover, even as other jurisdictions have begun to back away from some of the

radical excesses that became popular

during the heady days of Justin Trudeau's tenure, British Columbia's left-of-center

new Democratic Party government, led by Premier David Eby, remains in a kind of late 2010's time

warp. As we'll hear from my guest today, more on her in a minute, British Columbia

was not always like this. Not so long ago, BC's unionized labor force was dominated by

blue-collar workers in forestry, mining, and other resource industries. But thanks to automation

and the rise of the post-industrial economy, that has changed.

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