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Norm Letnick

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Serving my community is much more to me more than a one-time commitment. It’s a lifetime of commitments, and the time and effort involved in serving my community is truly a privilege. I'm focused on understanding and delivering on the priorities of the people I serve.

Misc. topics

Affordable Housing

BC Liberal's promise

Helping the middle class buy homes

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

  • Increase housing supply by working with municipalities to speed up permitting and open new opportunities to housing.
  • Expand the Renovation Tax Credit eligibility to those renovating their home to accommodate a secondary suite.
  • Raise the threshold of the First Time Home Buyers' Program exemption to $500,000, saving first-time home buyers up to $8,000.
  • Invest $700 million in the BC HOME Partnership program to provide mortgage down payment assistance loans to an estimated 42,000 first-time home buyers over the next three years.

Agriculture

Budget and Taxes

Childcare

BC Liberal's promise

Up to 13,000 new child care spaces by 2020

Drug Use and Abuse

BC Liberal's promise

Significant investments in child and youth mental health

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

  • Invest $165 million for youth mental health needs and substance abuse issues.

Education

Environment and Natural Resources

BC Liberal's promise

Standing up for B.C. with five conditions to protect our coastline

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

  • Ensure Canada implements its promise for a world-leading marine spill response system, prior to any new operations on our coast.
  • Ensure that Kinder Morgan meets its requirements to significantly enhance marine safety.

First Nations

BC Liberal's promise

Reconciliation and economic development with B.C. First Nations

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

  • Support First Nations' involvement in the forest sector
  • Improve access to skills training and economic development opportunities
  • Help Aboriginal businesses increase their participation in major industrial projects
  • Support interested First Nations in seeking the return of their ancestral remains and belongings of cultural significance
  • Implement the recommendations coming out of Grand Chief Ed John's report
  • Work with Destination BC to expand and promote Aboriginal tourism opportunities.

Health care

BC Liberal's promise

Investing in healthcare

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

Infrastructure

BC Liberal's promise

Innovation and BC Tech

BC Liberal's promise

Investing in the BC Tech Strategy

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

Jobs and the Economy

BC Liberal's promise

It all starts with a job

Creating jobs and economic growth with the best trained workforce:

  • Creating 1,000 new grads in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math disciplines, on top of the 1,000 coming
  • Investing $87 million in the BC Tech Strategy
  • Coding in classrooms for Grades 6 to 9
  • New innovation hub at Robson Square

Maintaining the most diversified economy in Canada:

  • Ensuring B.C. tech business are first in line for government contracts
  • Standing up for B.C. on softwood issue
  • Goal of three LNG plants moving to construction by 2020
  • Responsible development of the Montney oil and gas reserves
  • Supporting a new hops industry in B.C.
  • Expand Buy Local and Grow Local to encourage local food production
  • Diversifying markets for wood products in China and India
  • Adding to the Rural Dividend and high-speed connectivity

Justice and Policing

BC Liberal's promise

Protecting communities with Guns & Gangs Strategy

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

  • Continue to implement the Guns & Gangs Strategy to address public safety, keep our communities safe, and keep illegal firearms out of the hands of criminals.
  • Make an additional $4 million investment in our Guns & Gangs Strategy in rural British Columbia.

Mental Health

BC Liberal's promise

Significant investments in child and youth mental health

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

  • Invest $165 million for youth mental health needs and substance abuse issues.

Oil and Gas Industry

BC Liberal's promise

Responsible development of oil and gas

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

  • Unlock the oil resources contained in the Montney Basin through a new oil, deep-well royalty credit that is competitive with Alberta.
  • Place 50% of all oil revenues produced from the Montney Basin in the Prosperity Fund to benefit future generations.

Post-Secondary Education

Ride-Sharing

Seniors

BC Liberal's promise

Helping seniors stay in their homes independently

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

  • Create a new Active Seniors Tax Credit to support and promote seniors leading active healthy lifestyles.
  • Create a new Respite Tax Credit for people caring for seniors or family members with disabilities.
  • Double the Home Renovation Tax Credit to $20,000 to make home improvements to accommodate seniors or family members with disabilities.
  • Invest $225 million to reduce surgical wait times for elective surgeries - with no impact on emergency surgeries.

Trade

BC Liberal's promise

Standing up for B.C. on softwood

Driving forward, Today's BC Liberals will:

  • Stand up for B.C. forestry communities, workers, and companies as Canada continues to negotiate a new Softwood Lumber Agreement with the United States.
  • Work with the federal government to support workers, communities and forest companies as they fight the impacts of the unfair countervailing and anti-dumping duties.

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Biography

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Norm has served the residents of Kelowna and Lake Country as MLA since 2009 and is the Official Opposition Critic for Health, Long-Term Care, and Seniors. Previously he served four years as BC's Minister of Agriculture.

Norm has been married to Helene for 39 years, they have three adult children living in Kelowna and two grandchildren. He is a former business leader, professor and Kelowna City Councillor, and has served as chair of BC’s Health Committee, president of a not-for-profit housing corporation focused on young families and Rotary Club.

During the pandemic Norm was widely recognized for his collaborative approach to fighting the pandemic to the mutual benefit of all British Columbians, keeping his constituents informed with the latest factual information through social media and virtual town halls, and leading by example with practical solutions to problems.

A product of blue collar upbringing Norm understands how hard it can be to make ends meet and raise a family. Always wanting to give back Norm has volunteered all his life including over a decade of serving the homeless at Kelowna's Inn from the Cold, The Kelowna Gospel Mission, and purchasing a fourplex for use by the Kelowna Welcome Inn Society as a transition home from addictions. He is the lead organizer for the Lake Country Terry Fox Run, a supporter of both the Kelowna and Lake Country Food Banks, and is a volunteer baby hugger at the Kelowna General Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Norm holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a Rhodes Scholarship Nomination; an MBA and achieved candidacy status for a PhD in Health Economics with UBC before joining cabinet.

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