B.C. election a tight contest between NDP and Conservatives that could be bellwether for federal race

The B.C. business community had been muted in its criticism of the New Democratic government over its seven years in power – until earlier this summer when Glen Clark, onetime NDP premier and former president of the Jim Pattison Group, took the government to task.Mr. Clark, who stepped down from Canada’s largest private-sector company last year, says he is still a supporter of the BC NDP. But he argues that Premier David Eby needs to move from wealth redistribution to wealth creation.And economic growth has been hampered, he says, by a series of policy changes that are having a devastating impact on the province’s major resource industries.