B.C. election candidates: Stop trashing our signs [Video]

The moment the writ was dropped for the Oct. 19 election, candidates all over B.C. began putting up campaign signs. By the following day, many of those signs had already been stolen or vandalized, and that’s continuing today.

“It’s disheartening for someone in their first time doing this and trying to go forward with a positive message and taking the high road and having our signs destroyed,” said John Wilson, the BC Conservative candidate in Esquimalt-Colwood.

He says his signs are constantly being defaced, and he’s found them tossed in bushes and crumpled up in garbage cans.

“Lots of donors put in money to have these signs made; everybody’s signs should be let be,” said Wilson.

Susie Chant, the NDP candidate in North Vancouver-Seymour, has also had many of her signs destroyed or removed.

“My sign team is doing daily rounds, looking at the signs and working with them and …