VICTORIA – The BC Green Party has announced it will not be renewing an accord with the governing NDP when it expires next month.
The deal known as the Co-operation and Responsible Government Accord was intended to stabilize the government with its one-seat majority, while both parties worked on shared goals, but Green leader Emily Lowan says there have been “stalled or undelivered” commitments from the New Democrats.
She says that any decision to call an election rests solely with Premier David Eby and his government.
Lowan says the New Democrats hasn’t met commitments on issues such as expanded community health care, electoral reform and bringing more transit to Vancouver Island and the Sea-to-Sky region.
She says it has become clear to them that the NDP government is ceding its “values to corporate interests,” as wealth inequality rises and B.C.‘s working families are treading water in the cost-of-living crisis.
The seat count in the Legislature has been rearranged since the last election, with several members departing from the Opposition B.C. Conservatives leaving them with 39 seats to the NDP’s 47 members, while the Greens have two seats and there are now five Independents.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 9, 2026.
