John Rustad pushes back on tone of B.C. election campaign [Video]

Taking his closing pitch to a battleground riding in Nanaimo, BC Conservative Leader John Rustad touted health-care promises and commented on the tone of the campaign Wednesday.

The party is pledging to build a new patient tower with a catheterization lab for heart disease patients.

“Nanaimo is ready for change,” Rustad said. “Nanaimo is a community that’s going to be very important, both in terms of this next election, but also this province’s future.”

When asked about the tone of the campaign – which has included near-daily attacks from the NDP over candidate quality and the consequences that party says will come from the Conservatives’ policy proposals – Rustad pushed back.

“David Eby cannot defend what he’s been doing, so he has been out basically just lying the entire campaign,” said Rustad Wednesday.

“I’ve actually never seen this level of lying from an opposition.”

In recent days, Rustad has been …