Have you been to rural BC? The Lower Mainland + Victoria might seem lefty/green, but once you get farther east and north into lumber/mining/ranching country, it’s rather different. Hell, even in the Fraser Valley there are pockets of very conservative, religious, science deniers: where do you think the measles outbreaks of the last few years came from?
It’s just sometimes tricky to figure it out, because sometimes there’s a lot of denial denial: people say that they trust science, because they do trust the answers that benefit them. Science is great… Right up until the point it requires more effort or will get in the way of making a buck.
