Even more interesting! I always imagined that outside of Victoria it would be as conservative as the fishing and logging areas of Washington and Oregon tend to be. Apparently not! But the islands are probably full of countercultural types, so I guess it's not so surprising that that's where the strongest Green vote is. And maybe retirees from other parts of the country outweigh the locals in other parts of the island, but why they would tend toward the NDP I don't know. So I'm probably just plumb ignorant.