First COPE Government
Due to Clarke's increasing hostility to moderates in the NPA, more and more centrist supporters of Mayor Philip Owen's moderate and innovative policies on crime, many mainstream Vancouverites shifted their support to COPE between 1999 and 2002. One of these was former Chief Coroner, RCMP officer Larry Campbell and a character on the CBC show Da Vinci's Inquest whom COPE nominated as its mayoral candidate. Although Campbell attempted to keep the Greens in the fold, a new provincial leadership had taken control and pulled the party out of its municipal coalitions.
But Clarke's takeover of the NPA and purge of its centrists was highly unpopular with Vancouver voters, especially her movement's deposition of the incumbent mayor, an ally of Campbell. Now led by a centrist for the first time, COPE defeated the NPA in every seat it contested.
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