Nanaimo candidate wants Vancouver Island to separate

The first thing the leader of the Vancouver Island Party promises to do if he wins the provincial byelection in Nanaimo in the new year is work toward making Vancouver Island its own province.
Canada’s 11th province would be called VanIsle and as such would get its fair share of public money from Ottawa, said Robin Richardson, a Harvard-trained economist, minutes before officially launching his candidacy in Nanaimo on Wednesday.
“We would be 10 times, not 10 per cent, 10 times better