据加拿大广播公司报道，不列颠哥伦比亚省（BC省）有望选出98年来首个保守党多数政府，将加拿大第三大省推向政治右翼。
Columbia is set to elect its first Conservative Party majority in 98 years, according to Canadian broadcasters, swinging Canada’s third most populous province to the political right.
据加拿大广播公司统计，BC省保守党在立法机构93个席位中领先63席。BC省新民主党领先28席，绿党领先2席。计票工作仍在进行中，最终结果可能需要数小时或数天才能揭晓。
The Conservative Party of BC is leading in 63 of the legislature’s 93 seats, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The BC New Democratic Party has the lead in 28 seats and the Green Party in two. Counting is still ongoing and the final results may take hours or days.
这一预测结果对在任四年后于上月宣布提前大选、试图扩大微弱多数优势的BC省新民主党领袖尹大卫（David Eby）而言，看起来像是一场尴尬的败选。
The projected result looks like an embarrassing defeat for David Eby, the leader of the BC NDP who called the election last month after four years as premier, in an attempt to increase a slim majority.
这也意味着BC省新任省长将是罗恩·多克森（Lorne Doerkson），这位直到最近还默默无闻的前报纸发行人兼牛仔竞技表演骑手，仅在33天前才成为保守党临时领袖。随着大选临近，多克森被迅速选中接替凯里-林·芬德利（Kerry-Lynne Findlay），后者于9月在党团压力下辞职。此前在芬德利领导下辞职的议员们迅速回归党团。
It also suggests BC’s new premier will be Lorne Doerkson, until recently an obscure former newspaper publisher and rodeo rider who became the Conservatives’ interim leader just 33 days ago. As the possibility of an election loomed, Doerkson was quickly chosen to replace Kerry-Lynne Findlay, who’d resigned in September under pressure from her caucus. Lawmakers who had resigned under Findlay rapidly returned to the fold.
保守党承诺削减包括基本所得税在内的税收，废除包括零排放车辆销售配额在内的绿色法规，加快审批许可，并废除一项要求该省维护《联合国土著人民权利宣言》的立法。保守党表示，该法律及相关政策给房主和投资者带来了不可接受的不确定性。
The Conservatives promised to cut taxes including basic income tax, end green regulations including a zero-emission vehicle sales quota, speed permitting, and to repeal a piece of legislation which mandates the province uphold the United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Conservatives have said that law and related policies cause unacceptable uncertainty for homeowners and investors.
保守党目标是到2032年将BC省天然气产量翻倍。多座位于BC省沿海、用于向亚洲出口液化天然气（LNG）的大型设施正在投入运营和建设中。在加拿大，省一级政府对自然资源监管拥有重大权力。
The Conservatives aim to double BC’s natural gas production by 2032. Several large facilities for exporting LNG from BC’s coast to Asia are coming online and in development. In Canada, sub-national provinces have significant power over natural resource regulation.
这种做法与总理马克·卡尼的一项主要优先事项不谋而合。卡尼一直大力推动不列颠哥伦比亚省的液化天然气出口终端，以此作为加拿大在应对美国总统唐纳德·特朗普关税之际，实现贸易多元化、摆脱对美国依赖的手段。卡尼领导的联邦自由党与不列颠哥伦比亚省保守党在支持采矿业和其他产业方面也将保持一致。
That approach dovetails with a major priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has championed BC LNG export terminals as a means of diversifying Canada’s trade away from the US, while the country deals with tariffs from President Donald Trump. Both Carney’s federal Liberals and the BC Conservatives will also be in sync on supporting mining and other industry.
然而，保守党的做法可能会与不列颠哥伦比亚省200多个原住民社区产生摩擦，这些社区在加拿大拥有强有力的法律权利。这可能引发抗议和诉讼，并可能与卡尼自由党党团中受环保理念驱动的成员产生张力。
However, the Conservatives’ approach may cause friction with BC’s more-than-200 Indigenous communities, which hold strong legal rights in Canada. That could lead to protests and lawsuits, and perhaps tension with environmentally-motivated members of Carney’s Liberal caucus.
尽管不列颠哥伦比亚省保守党已有一个世纪未以自身名义执政，但其他名称的右倾政党曾执政——最近一次是不列颠哥伦比亚省自由党。在2024年大选前夕，该党更名为不列颠哥伦比亚联合党，随即瓦解，并被保守党取而代之。
Though the BC Conservative Party hasn’t governed in its own right for a century, right-leaning parties with other names have — most recently the BC Liberal Party. Ahead of 2024’s election, that party changed its name to BC United, collapsed, and was supplanted by the Conservatives.
新民主党自2017年起执政。该党在前省长约翰·霍根领导下上台，霍根于2022年将领导权移交给伊比。伊比在2024年大选中以极微弱优势获胜，这意味着他党内任何一名议员的缺席、生病或持不同意见，都可能使其执政计划脱轨。
The New Democratic Party has been in power since 2017. It took office under former Premier John Horgan, who passed the leadership to Eby in 2022. Eby won very narrowly in 2024’s election, which meant the absence, illness or dissent of a single lawmaker in his party could derail his governing program.
他因提前两年举行大选而遭到强烈反弹。伊比的失败意味着，除新民主党的瓦布·基内在曼尼托巴省执政外，加拿大几乎不再有左翼省长掌权。
He has faced backlash for calling the election two years early. Eby’s defeat means almost no left-wing premiers remain in power across Canada apart from the NDP’s Wab Kinew in Manitoba.
保守党抨击伊比和新民主党导致省政府债务和赤字膨胀。该省在五年内遭遇标普全球评级五次下调评级。多克森的竞选纲领称，保守党将在首份预算案后逐年缩减赤字，尽管速度较慢。
The Conservatives attacked Eby and the NDP for the government’s ballooning debt and deficits. The province has been downgraded five times in five years by S&P Global Ratings. Doerkson’s platform said the Conservatives would shrink the deficit every year after their first budget, albeit slowly.