I feel that even though the leftists in BC are leftists, from their rhetoric they are far more "American" from the Tory-influenced anti-American people from Ontario. Read enough articles from leftist or MSM in Canada that Victoria and Vancouver's lefties don't get along well with the fellow lefties from Ontario/Quebec.
This phenomenon has even extended to ethnic immigrants. I'm Chinese and I know HK migrants living in Vancouver frequently taunt those who chose to immigrate to Toronto (snow, boredom, etc), and vice versa (mansions, filthy rich).
To be honest, I can talk a great deal of sense with you guys in the West than those "in the East". You share a lot more in common with America, Australia, and even NZ (whenever NZ is entering the conservative episodes) than the High Tory socialists in Ontario, French socialists in Quebec, or welfare-dependent Maritimes people. It is a shame why the area from Manitoba right up to coastal BC is not a separate country from Canada.