Former Vancouver mayor Michael Harcourt becomes the province’s 30th premier after leading the NDP to victory in the provincial election.
The NDP won 51 of 75 seats, including Harcourt’s Vancouver-Mount Pleasant riding, while the B.C. Liberals took 17 and the defeated Social Credit party only seven.
Even though he was personally uninvolved, Harcourt resigned in 1996 as the result of “Bingogate,” a scandal in which disgraced Nanaimo—Cowichan MLA David Stupich stole more than $1 million in money raised at charity bingo events to fund the party.
The 71-year-old is now the chairman of a medical marijuana company.
