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making it government-run ensures it won't be taken away again.

It only ensures that it won't be taken away again until the next time the province elects a majority Tory government.

To be fair, it has been about 90 years since the last time the Tories were elected in BC, and with no functioning Tory party in BC it doesn't seem like that will happen again any time soon.

In BC, the Tories call themselves the "BC Liberal" (In-name only) party. Their policies are very similar to the federal CPC.

The BC liberal party is indeed kind of a philosophical blend between the federal liberals and the federal conservatives (more like the liberals on social and environmental issues, but more like the conservatives on fiscal issues) - but no, nobody calls the BC liberal party "the Tories".

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