British Columbia’s provincial election campaign is not even a week old and already getting nasty.  

Conservative Party of B.C. leader John Rustad didn’t even have to open his mouth on the campaign trail before accusations began to fly. At his first presser, held at Vancouver’s oceanfront Crab Park, Rustad was admonished for allegedly using homeless people as election props. His crime: one of our province’s many tent encampments could be seen approximately 100 metres behind him while he spoke. Not a single homeless person was visible.