To Thine Own Self Be True
To Thine Own Self Be True I returned to UVic while I was Mayor and completed my Master’s Degree in 2002. As I defended my thesis I knew I had passed when the conversation turned with this question: ‘so why didn’t you run with Gordon Campbell last year?’ I frequently encountered this question and still do but it did make me chuckle to hear it in this serious academic setting. My reply? “Well, I bought this tee shirt that said ‘to thine own self be true.’” I was a Saanich Councillor and Capital Regional District Chair in the early 1990’s and was often working with Campbell while he was Vancouver Mayor and Greater Vancouver Regional District Chair. I recall telling him that when he made the move to provincial politics that I’d go with him – even though I didn’t know which right of centre party he’d choose. So I was there as we built up BC Liberal constituencies and recruited candidates – and celebrated victory in May 1996, albeit for less than an hour. Early re