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Healthcare
Jobs, the Economy, and Affordability
Provide full disclosure of the basis for WorkSafeBC premiums.
Conduct a full review of property taxes to ensure small businesses can survive.
— From Restore Confidence. Rebuild BC.
- Implement split assessments on property taxes.
Appoint a non-partisan panel to help dramatically reduce the red tape burden on small businesses, by reviewing regulatory requirements and costs, and providing recommendations on the best steps to fuel economic recovery.
— From Restore Confidence. Rebuild BC.
Help small businesses prepare for online business and commerce, to be able to market their products and services to the world.
Address skilled labour shortages throughout BC.
Housing & Homelessness
Require reviews of Official Community Plans every five years that are public, robust and transparent; require that zoning bylaws then be updated to reflect changes to the plan within one year after adoption; and allow for the waiving of hearings for Official Community Plan compliant projects.
Support zoning reform to provide inclusionary (sic) zoning and to ensure that the Residential Tenure Zoning (RRTZ) tool cannot be used to devalue and downzone property.
Ensure no net loss of rental units in real estate redevelopment projects.
Implement split assessments for the commercially-rented portion of buildings through a new commercial property sub-class.
Create a new residential property sub-class for rental housing of three or more units.
Change BC Assessment practices to ensure rental properties are no longer valued based on the highest and best use, but rather on actual rental use.
— From Restore Confidence. Rebuild BC.
Use provincial and municipal land for affordable housing.
— From Restore Confidence. Rebuild BC.
Enable affordable condominium strata insurance by: encouraging and facilitating self-insurance models for stratas; eliminating the practice of "best-terms" pricing; and reducing statutorily-required insurance for strata properties from full replacement value to a level in line with actual claims cost history.
Reduce delays in building-permit approvals and new homeowner costs.
Improve the municipal development approval process, based on best practices.
Strengthen and enforce Regional Growth Strategy targets so they are robust and effective.
Provide provincial funding to create a digital tracking tool to allow municipalities and applicants to track the progress of individual applications and identify roadblocks.
— From Restore Confidence. Rebuild BC.
Support and develop co-operative housing and other alternative ownership models.
Climate Change & the Environment
Work with federal, municipal and First Nations partners, as well as outdoor recreation and conservancy organizations, to ensure the ongoing restoration of wildlife populations.
— From Restore Confidence. Rebuild BC.
Ensure hunting and other wildlife fees are used to fund enhancement of our wild spaces and wildlife populations.
Accelerate reforestation programs with priority to high-value fish-impact watershed reclamation.
Adopt robust salmon and steelhead conservation measures [...]
Support food share programs to keep food out of landfills, and get it to people who need it, to reduce both hunger and landfill methane.
Implement enhancements to Okanagan Lake Water Level Management for flood control and mitgation.
Improve the [...] BC Parks camping reservation system, to provide short-notice camping options for local residents, and make the reservations process fairer for all.
Education
Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction
Human Rights & Equality
Transit & Transportation
Public Safety
Children, Childcare, & Youth in Care
Implement a new, online province-wide electronic application that is voluntary for parents and required for all providers receiving government funding. The parent would have the option to reject an invitation for an available space and wait for the next one.
Encourage and support a variety of non-profit and market-based child care providers.
Expand training and support for better qualified child care workers.
Replace the Minister of State for Child Care with a full Ministry to manage licencing (sic), funding and oversight.
Indigenous Issues
Resource Extraction & Export
Misc.
Biography
Paul was born in St. Eustache, Quebec in December 1967, and is the oldest of four boys and the child of Clément and Suzanne Lepage (née Barnes).
He attended Knowlton Academy primary school, Massey-Vanier Secondary School, Marianopolis Private College on a scholarship, and Concordia University for his Bachelors and Masters degrees.
During his Masters degree, Paul worked for the Office of the Auditor General of Canada working as a value-for-money auditor and reviewer for the 1994 Peacekeeping Audit. He worked at Communications and Consultations at the Queen’s Privy Council Office on a variety of research and communications projects, including public service renewal, program review, the Spanish Canadian Turbot War, Krever Inquiry and the Quebec Referendum on Sovereignty Association.
Paul worked as the Executive Assistant to the Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture in the House of Commons (Jerry Pickard, Liberal Member of Parliament, Essex-Kent). He was a Municipal Councillor for West Bolton, Quebec and Committee President for Civil Protection and Security during a two year term in 1995-96.
He also worked for Aerospace and Defence Industry Branch at Industry Canada as a Consultant on industry strategic competitiveness frameworks and the international subsidization of the aerospace industry.
In 1996, Paul started his consulting business Lepage Associates in Vancouver, primarily focussed on public sector negotiations. In 1999, he completed his Master’s thesis, The application of principled negotiation methods in the Government of Canada versus Native Peoples of Canada. defended, June 2000.
Since 1996, Lepage Associates has worked with, consulted to and advised a diversity of clients, and continues to operate to the present. The majority of the practice is focussed on business partnerships, land development and negotiation on behalf of Indigenous clients in Western Canada. However, Lepage Associates has held several contracts with the Government of Canada, the Province of British Columbia and large private corporations. Lepage Associates has worked for Indigenous clients in Alberta, the Yukon and several Nations and organizations across British Columbia.
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