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Anne Kang

BC NDP candidate for Burnaby-Deer Lake

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Working for everyday British Columbians to strengthen healthcare, implement more affordable housing and childcare, and create good jobs to build B.C. back better.

Healthcare:
- Hire 7000 new healthcare workers to staff long-term care homes
- Free COVID-19 vaccine once it's ready
- 2 million free doses of the flu vaccine
- Free contraception for all who want it
- Invest $42.3 million to create a new Hospital at Home program to limit transmission and the burden on hospitals
- Add 10 new Urgent Primary Care Centres to the 21 the BC NDP created
- Continue the 14 new hospital projects already started, including the $1.3B investment in the Burnaby Hospital that will add 400 new beds, expand the ER, and create a cancer centre and mental health treatment centre
- Create a new 10-year cancer plan
- Add a 2nd medical school for BC
- Adding 4 more MRIs to further decrease wait times
- Hire 600 contact tracers to help stop further spread in the community
- Fighting for a national Pharmacare program while enhancing Fair Pharmacare

Housing:
- Freeze rents until 2022 and limit increases to inflation after that
- Income-tested renter's rebate of $400
- Reducing the costs of construction so that those costs can be passed on to people
- Control the rising cost of strata insurance
- Continue on our work of 25,000 affordable homes already built or on the way, and reach 114,000 in 10 years
- Add at least 2,200 more units of supportive housing to the 2,800 we've already built
- Provide low-interest loans to middle-income prospective home buyers, and look into equitable home ownership programs, such as a rent-to-own program

Affordability:
- Free public transit for kids under 12
- Up to a $1000 direct deposit for families with a household income of up to $175,000 and up to $500 for individuals with an annual income of $87,000
- Reduce the cost of car insurance by at average of 20%
- Give COVID-19 rebates from any surplus incurred during the pandemic
- Adding an income-tested incentive for zero-emission vehicle purchases, so everyone can have access to low emissions transportation
- Removing the PST on e-bikes

Childcare:
- Continue on our work of adding 2,500 licensed child care spaces across the province into prototype universal child care sites
- Expand on our $10/day childcare to more families, which has already helped 32,700 families
- Expand our childcare capital program and modular strategy, to ensure that childcare is incorporated into new housing complexes, workplaces, and schools
- Support more Early Childhood Educators by expanding on the $2/hr wage enhancement and more training

Senior care:
- By 2021, meet the target of 3.36 hours of care per day per senior in every region of the province - Provide "levelled up wages" to long-term care workers even after the pandemic ends- Implement new requirements for private senior homes to ensure they meet the quality of care we expect for our seniors - Launch a Silver Alert system in partnership with the BC Seniors' Advocate to ensure seniors, particularly those with dementia and Alzheimer's

Economy and jobs:
- Continue the work that turned decades of debt into surpluses 3 years in a row
- Invest 1% of GDP into a new Recovery Investment Fund to drive new growth
- Create 18,000 new jobs every year
- Tying minimum wage to inflation
- Ensuring that all workers have the right to unionize, even if they’re gig workers
- Build on the work that allowed us to have a strong economy before the pandemic hit, like our 2.6% GDP growth rate (higher than the Canadian average),

Education:
- Build on our investment of $2.7 billion in the largest modernization of schools in BC's history, with a focus on meeting seismic and energy efficiency requirements
- Continue to make classrooms safer by installing new ventilation systems, plexiglass barriers, and ensuring more hours of cleaning
- Build on our investments in mental health supports for students and staff
- Fast-track improvements to online and remote learning by investing in more in computers and tablets, more training for teachers, and new ways to support social e-learning
- Bring in local food programs in partnership with school districts to ensure kids are properly fed for learning
- Continue our newly created $5 million/year school playground fund, to ensure that having safe and appropriate playground equipment is not dependent on parents’ ability to fundraise
- Make tuition free for all former youth-in-care, regardless of age
- Create 2,000 new tech-relevant spaces in public post-secondary institutions

Environment:
- Legislate in law net-zero emissions by 2050
- Ensure all new buildings are net-zero ready by 2032
- Ensuring that all large industrial projects are bonded, so that if there's a spill, polluters pay -- not taxpayers
- Ban single-use plastics
- Establish a Watershed Security Fund to create good, sustainable jobs while protecting water
- Protect more of BC's old-growth forests, in addition to the 353,000 hectares we protected in September
- Expand provincial parks while increasing funding to improve infrastructure and protect ecosystems
- Making transportation more affordable through public transit, ZEVs, and electric bikes (see "Affordability")

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Children, Childcare, & Youth in Care

Childcare

Anne Kang's promises

Expand on our $10/day childcare, which has already helped 32,700 families Expand our childcare capital program and modular strategy Continue on our work of adding 2,500 licensed child care spaces across the province into prototype universal child care sites

- Expand our childcare capital program and modular strategy, to ensure that childcare is incorporated into new housing complexes, workplaces, and schools

- Support more Early Childhood Educators by expanding on the $2/hr wage enhancement and more training

Enshrine the principles of affordable, accessible, inclusive child care in law; expand $10/day child care beyond the 32,700 families we've already brought it to; exceed target of 22,000 new child care spaces; more convenient and secure child care for working parents;

Ensure Early Childhood Educators (ECE) are a well-supported profession, by expanding our successful wage increase program

BC NDP's promise

Protect childcare in law; Bring $10-a-day childcare to more families; Create more childcare spaces through a new childcare capital programme, exceeding target of 22,000 new spaces; Work towards universal access to before- and after-school care on school grounds; Train more ECEs.

Protecting childcare in law: Much in the way that legislation was introduced to enshrine the concept of universal health care, we will protect the principles of affordable, accessible, and inclusive quality child care in legislation.

Bringing $10-a-day child care to more families: Our focus on affordability for families has already led to 32,700 families paying $10-a-day or less on child care for their kids. Partnering with the federal government, we will expand the number of $10-a-day child care spaces while enhancing our other affordability measures - delivering savings of thousands of dollars each month to help families get ahead.

More spaces through a new child care capital program: We will exceed our target of 22,000 new child care spaces by expanding our child care capital program and modular strategy for child care. When government builds a new school, housing complex or other projects we will work to ensure child care is included in their capital plans.

More convenient and secure child care at your local school: A John Horgan NDP government will work towards providing universal access to before- and after-school care on school grounds so parents know their children are safe at one place for the full work day.

More convenient child care options for working parents: Through partnerships with crown corporations, universities, local governments, First Nations, and public and private sector employers, we will work to make sure new office/business construction and upgrades will include space for child care centres, so that more parents can access needed child care at their places of work.

Training and keeping more early learning educators: We'll make sure Early Childhood Educators (ECE) are a well-supported profession, just like teachers and other professionals who work in BC's education system. We will continue to implement and enhance the Early Care and Learning Recruitment and Retention Strategy which includes expanding our successful ECE wage enhancement program.

Integrating child care into the broader learning environment: To make sure child care is brought formally into the learning timeline, we will move responsibility for child care to the Ministry of Education. It will oversee delivery of all childcare initiatives and funding, manage a capital investment program to build more new spaces, and ensure quality care through ongoing curriculum enhancements.