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The Current | Mar 5, 2013 | 22:00

Courting the ethnic vote

The campaign plan was to offer well-timed apologies for government treatment of certain ethnic minorities. Instead the strategy was leaked forcing a different kind of apology from BC's Christy Clark and raising wider questions of how politicians target voters.

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