Greens see loyalty shift

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A switch in loyalties has boosted Green Party hopes in the Kelowna-Lake Country riding in advance of the May 9 provincial election.

With some polls showing a rise in support for the party across the province, Kelowna-Lake Country candidate Alison Shaw says she is seeing evidence of that in the Central Okanagan.

"We have many volunteers coming forward who have been ardent NDP and Liberal supporters and we also have a couple of Conservative Party voters actively working on our team," said Shaw.

"This is what the Greens are about. This is why I am running in 2017."

She says her campaign has attracted quite the crew of core support, ranging from business owners, engineers, economists, professors, tech experts, students, ex-mayors and many more.

"We offer voters a genuine alternative. People are tired of being railroaded into the same old left versus right perspectives.

"We want to move beyond big money lobbying and its influence on B.C. policy and the mind-numbing barrage of big budget marketing campaigns and oppositional politics."

An Angus Reid poll released Wednesday shows Green Party leader Andrew Weaver favoured by 12 per cent of British Columbians when asked who would make the best premier.

Weaver also had a higher favourable rating (45 per cent) than the other party leaders.