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Children, Childcare, & Youth in Care
Childcare
BC NDP
- 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.
— From Working for You.
BC Liberals
- Provide $10-a-day childcare to families making up to $65,000 annually, and stepped rates of $20 or $30-a-day for families of incomes up to $125,000.
- Build 10,000 new childcare spaces across BC.
- Expand access to before-and-after school care in schools.
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.
BC Greens
- Invest up to $897M/year by 2023/24 in childcare programme.
- Expand available physical spaces, prioritizing partnerships with public schools, community non-profits, and First Nations.
- Provide free childcare for working parents with children under 3.
- Professional development opportunities to increase qualifications of existing child care workers, and the training of more early childhood educators in certified programs;
- Establishment of professional wages for early childhood educators;
We will maintain child care subsidies and supports as needed to ensure adequate financial support for all families.
We will move the Ministry of State for Childcare into the Ministry of Education in recognition of the importance of ECE in the education outcomes for our children.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Early childhood development
Stay-at-home parents
Youth in care
Climate Change & the Environment
BC Parks
BC NDP
BC Liberals
- Double number of provincial park campsites in areas with growing demand.
- Improve safe parking & amenities in high-use day areas.
- Create a Work Experience for Students programme to provide work-experience opportunities for young people in provincial parks.
- Improve reservations.
Improve the [...] BC Parks camping reservation system, to provide short-notice camping options for local residents, and make the reservations process fairer for all.
Carbon tax
Climate resilience
Conservation
BC NDP
- Work with adjacent jurisdictions to protect shared wildlife and habitat corridors.
- Implement recommendations of the Old Growth Strategic Review to protect further old-growth stands.
- Develop a new coastal strategy.
[...] we will seek a partnership with the federal government to establish a Watershed Security Fund to fund Indigenous, local, and regionally led clean water initiatives - and create good, sustainable, local jobs for British Columbians in watershed restoration, monitoring, technology, and education.
— From Working for You.
We'll make sure owners of large industrial projects are bonded moving forward, so that they - and not BC taxpayers - pay the full cost of environmental cleanup if their projects are abandoned.
— From _Working for You_.
We will develop a new provincial coastal strategy — in partnership with First Nations and federal and local governments — to better protect coastal habitat while growing coastal economies. A priority will be working with the federal government to address freighter traffic management and anchorage through southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
— From Working for You.
We'll work with the federal government to develop new strategies that:
- Protect and revitalize BC's salmon populations by building on the successful Broughton process and supporting innovation in fish hatcheries.
- Step up protection of fish habitat through our biodiversity strategy.
- Ensure BC processing of BC-caught fish.
— From Working for You.
BC Liberals
- Ensure no net loss of wetlands in BC.
- Take more aggressive control of invasive species.
- Ensure ongoing restoration of wildlife populations.
- Accelerate reforestation programmes.
- Appoint a Minister for Fisheries and Coastlines.
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.
BC Greens
- Establish a strategy to manage wetlands.
- Ensure legislative oversight through legislated objectives for fish and wildlife.
- Enhance funding for wildlife conservation, habitat protection, & habitat acquisition.
- Provide legal protection for endangered species.
Prioritize protection of wildlife and their habitat across government including through:
- Establishing a strategy to manage our wetlands;
- Protecting coastal ecosystems with a Coastal Law and Strategy;
- Ensuring appropriate legislative oversight through creating legislated objectives for fish and wildlife;
- Moving the fish and wildlife branch from FLNRO and the Ministry of Environment;
- Urgently match and exceed historic provincial funding levels for the fish and wildlife branch to match the unprecedented challenges we now face;
- Ensuring that science about the status of our wildlife and environment is independent from political interference and made freely available to the public;
Enhance funding for wildlife conservation, habitat protection and habitat acquisition and dedicate all fishing, hunting, guide-outfitting, and trapping license fees for this purpose.
Create an endangered species law that establishes legal protection of species and their habitat to ensure their recovery and survival.
Take action on fish farms to protect wild salmon:
- Support the full implementation of the Wild Salmon Advisory Council recommendations and Cohen Commission recommendations, working urgently to enforce all measures within provincial jurisdiction;
- Negotiate strongly with DFO to complete the recommendations under federal jurisdiction;
- Working with DFO, First Nations, local communities, and industry, provide stimulus and incentives to create a close-containment land based fish farming industry and cancel open-pen fish farm tenures.
Establish a made-in-BC Environmental Charter that lays out:
- Substantive rights to clean air, clean water, and healthy ecosystems
- Procedural rights that allow everyone to participate in decisions that affect the environment;
- Information rights that ensure we all have the access to all information relevant to decisions that affect the environment;
- Application of the precautionary principle to decisions that affect the environment.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Electric bikes
Electric vehicles
BC NDP
- Provide a new income-tested incentive on new and used zero-emission vehicles.
- Increase public vehicle charging availability with incentives and "right-to-charge" legislation for stratas and apartment buildings.
Expand CleanBC and our zero-emissions vehicle program to industrial vehicles: [...] We will expand CleanBC's SUVI program to get more trucks, buses, ports, airports, and marine vessels off fossil fuels.
— From Working for You.
BC Greens
- Require 100% 0-emission non-commercial vehicle sales by 2035.
- Remove PST on electric vehicles.
- Work with industry on new incentive programmes.
- Build public charging infrastructure on all highways.
- Require multi-unit buildings to have charging infrastructure.
Work with industry to set new [zero-emission vehicle] targets for commercial vehicles and on and off-road medium and heavy duty vehicles
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Emissions
BC NDP
- Pass legislation requiring BC to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, either through no emissions or through carbon offsets.
- Invest in made-in-BC carbon capture technology.
- Empower local governments to set their own carbon pollution performance standards for new buildings.
[...] we will require realtors to provide energy efficiency information on listed homes to incent energy-saving upgrades and let purchasers know what energy bills they will face.
— From Working for You.
We'll provide additional funding for our CleanBC industrial emissions strategy so that more mines, pulp mills, oil and gas processing plants, and other industrial facilities can reduce harmful emissions and more to cleaner operations.
— From Working for You.
BC Greens
- Commit to being carbon neutral by 2045.
- Set sectoral targets.
- Set an interim target for 2025.
- End oil and gas subsidies, and redirect money to innovation & businesses to help meet our commitments.
- Develop an accountability framework to ensure targets are met.
Support the creation of a biofuels strategy and clean hydrogen roadmap as part of the energy mix we use to replace fossil fuels in our transportation sector.
Integrate a GHG emissions lens into all government procurement processes.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Enact Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)-enabling legislation.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Plastic waste
Retrofits
BC NDP
Water
BC NDP
[...] we will seek a partnership with the federal government to establish a Watershed Security Fund to fund Indigenous, local, and regionally led clean water initiatives - and create good, sustainable, local jobs for British Columbians in watershed restoration, monitoring, technology, and education.
— From Working for You.
BC Greens
- Allocate $50 million for a dedicated Watershed Security Fund.
- Expand watershed boards across the province.
- Implement a Water Sustainability Act.
- Work with local governments and school districts to upgrade municipal infrastructure and replace household pipes.
- Ban fracking.
Allocate $50 million to create a dedicated Watershed Security Fund that will create sustainable jobs in communities across BC in watershed restoration, monitoring, technology, training, and education.
Expanding the model of the Cowichan Watershed Board across the province and establishing shared decision-making authority with watershed boards, with watershed sustainability as a core mandate.
Conducting comprehensive watershed planning in conjunction with First Nations, communities, government agencies, stewardship organizations and industry and including watersheds as a part of a landscape-level ecosystem-based management approach to development.
Implementing the Water Sustainability Act to secure the environmental flows needed to sustain healthy and functioning rivers, lakes and watersheds.
Working with local governments, school districts and other stakeholders to upgrade municipal infrastructure and replace household pipes through grants and incentives.
Exploring science-based solutions to reduce water acidity.
Implementing a ban on fracking, a [...] process that has been shown to contaminate freshwater, trigger earthquakes, leak methane, and poses an unacceptable risk to human health.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Education
Adult learning
Class size & composition
Funding for public education
BC Greens
[...] This would include:
- Addressing the continued disparities in wages, class size and composition between districts;
- Access to speech-language pathologists and school psychologists, and develop new resources for students with special needs.
- This starts with the development of a new funding formula that supports a 21st century education system.
- Double the funding of the B.C. Access Grant to help support post-secondary part-time students, and those enrolled in multi-year programs.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Meal programmes
BC NDP
BC Greens
Proposals would be developed by the district to ensure local needs are addressed;
Funding would be conditional on ensuring the program integrated nutrition into the curriculum and showed how the plan would eliminate the stigma associated with accessing food programming.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Mental health and schools
New schools
Post-secondary
Racism and reconciliation
School infrastructure
BC NDP
Schools and COVID
BC NDP
- Install new ventilation systems, plexiglass barriers in key areas, and comprehensive cleaning stations.
- Ensure more hours of cleaning in all schools.
- Fast-track improvements to online and remote learning.
We'll invest in more computers and tablets, more training for teachers and support staff, and in new ways to improve social e-learning that promotes group interactions between students and teachers.
— From Working for You.
School tuition
Special learning needs
Healthcare
Acute and preventive care
BC Greens
The task force will review the funding and range of services covered by the health care system to ensure the mix of services better meets the treatment and prevention needs of the population. The task force will deliver its recommendations to the government by May 2022.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
COVID-19 Vaccine
BC NDP
Cancer
BC NDP
- Commit that all cancer care patients get information and care when they need it, including in rural communities.
- Provide more individualized care.
- Invest in new equipment, systems, and procedures.
- Expand enhanced research and diagnostic capabilities.
An anywhere/anytime commitment so that all cancer care patients get information and care when they need it, including in rural communities.
Providing more individualized care for cancer patients, including dedicated teams providing a full continuum of care.
improving that continuum of care by investing in new equipment, systems and procedures that deliver leading-edge prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment services.
Expanding and funding enhanced research and diagnostic capabilities, allowing health professionals to improve the precision of disease risk prediction, prevention, diagnostics and treatment.
— From Working for You.
Care homes & assisted living
BC NDP
- Hire 7,000 new workers for long-term care and assisted living.
- Restore standards for wages, benefits, and working conditions.
- Build more public care homes.
- Require transparency from private operators.
- Launch a Silver Alert system to help locate missing seniors.
...we're investing $44 million to hire and train 7,000 new health care workers for long-term care homes and assisted living facilities. This Health Career Access Program will provide new opportunities for workers who lost their jobs in other sectors due to COVID-19.
— From Working for You.
We will develop a staffing retention strategy that provides workers in long-term care and assisted living with "levelled up wages" even after the pandemic ends, and restore provincial standards for wages, benefits, and working conditions that were cut by the BC Liberals.
— From Working for You.
We're working with non-profits to build public care homes that keep seniors safer, healthier, and more comfortable.
— From Working for You.
... new requirements that will make sure private operators are more transparent and accountable for the public funding they get.
— From _Working for You_.
Working with community groups and the BC Seniors Advocate, we will develop a made-in-BC Silver Alert system to help assist first responders locate missing seniors, particularly those with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
— From Working for You.
BC Liberals
- Invest an additional $1 billion over 5 years in new long-term care facilities.
- Work towards private rooms for all seniors in long-term care who want them.
- Work with care home operators to address chronic worker shortages.
BC Greens
- Shift sector away from for-profit private companies, to a mix of public, not-for-profit, community-based services, & co-ops.
- Require annual inspections, financial statements, & audited expense reports.
- Recognize caregivers as a healthcare profession with the salary they deserve.
Support pilot projects that bring young people and seniors together and integrate seniors more deeply into communities;
Give the office of the Seniors Advocate more independence and an expanded mandate.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Care homes and COVID-19
Contraception
Healthcare staffing
BC NDP
- Launch a second medical school to expand health care workforce.
- Create a comprehensive health care human resources strategy including credential recognition.
Launching BC's second medical school to expand our health care workforce: This means more doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses and other health professionals trained, graduating and working right here in BC.
A comprehensive health care human resources strategy including credential recognition: From doctors and nurses to long-term care aides, we will make sure BC is well-prepared to deal with future demand and pressures. In addition to expanding training in all fields of healthcare, we'll be improving the provinces credential recognition process and licensing so that people trained in other countries can provide their skills and knowledge here in BC.
— From Working for You.
Health infrastructure
Homecare
BC NDP
- Invest in a new Hospital at Home programme.
- Expand publicly funded home care to provide better care and help with daily living.
Invest in a new Hospital at Home programme so patients can get safe care while in the comfort of their homes, and taking pressure off hospitals. It will act as a blueprint for expanding e-health and tele-health services more broadly, so people can get virtual visits from doctors and nurses at home.
— From Working for You.
We'll expand publicly funded home care to provide better care and help with daily living - bathing, dressing, meal preparation and more - so that people can stay in their own homes for as long as is safely possible. It will also improve continuity of care with seniors receiving visits from a more consistent group of care aides.
— From Working for You.
Inclusiveness
Pandemic response
Prescription drugs
Sexual assault
BC Greens
This funding would be part of a larger strategy that establishes a new funding model for medical and police integrated sexual assault services, ensuring communities across BC can establish clinics that meet their needs.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Vaccinations
Wait-times
BC NDP
- Optimize surgical and diagnostic space.
- Add four more MRI machines in the next year.
- Provide the hospital needed staff to perform more surgeries and other procedures.
Maximizing the capacity of existing surgical and diagnostic space: We're developing new strategies to optimize surgical and diagnostic space and teams, so BC can keep pace with the demand for new surgeries and increase the number of MRIs annually - reducing people's wait for care and relief.
Adding four more MRI machines in the next year: We're putting more MRIs in areas of highest remaining demand - Ridge Meadows Hospital (Maple Ridge), Langley Memorial, Vancouver General and St Paul's, with more to come.
Providing the hospital staff needed to perform more surgeries and other procedures: Our training, recruitment, certification, and retention strategies will help make sure BC has the skilled health workforce to deliver care faster.
— From Working for You.
Housing & Homelessness
Homelessness
BC NDP
- Build 2,200 more units of supportive housing.
- Provide rent supplements for residents of supportive housing who are ready to move on to independent living.
Housing affordability
BC NDP
- Continue work to provide 114,000 new, affordable housing units.
- Provide remaining portion of 1,750 new homes for Indigenous people on- and off-reserve.
- Provide more low-interest loans and expand the Housing Hub.
We'll streamline and modernize housing construction by eliminating outdated parking minimums in projects close to public transit, develop a single-window provincial permitting process, and work with communities to streamline approval processes at the local level.
— From Working for You.
Controlling the rising cost of strata insurance: [...] If rates have not corrected by the end of 2021, we will develop a public strata insurance option, similar to Saskatchewan.
— From Working for You.
Providing more homes for Indigenous people in BC: We will deliver the remaining units in our $550 million commitment to building 1,750 new homes, both on- and off-reserve [...]
— From Working for You.
Getting more affordable housing built through Housing Hub partnerships: Through the Housing Hub we launched in 2018, we'll provide additional low-interest loans to add tens of thousands more homes for middle income families. We'll expand the role of this innovative team to partner with non-profit and co-op housing providers to acquire and preserve existing rental housing. We'll also instruct the Housing Hub to look for new pathways to home ownership through rent-to-own or other equity-building programs.
— From _Working for You_.
BC Liberals
- Establish an incentive fund for municipalities with policies that increase the construction and supply of new housing.
- Implement tax and permitting changes to boost housing supply.
- Review current property tax structure to incent affordable housing and prevent speculation.
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.
BC Greens
- Accelerate investments to affordable, supportive, and social housing.
- Extend leases for extant co-ops and create a land bank for new co-ops.
- Establish a capital fund to support the acquisition and maintenance rental housing by nonprofits.
- Close the bare trust loophole.
These steps include:
- Taking a housing first approach and accelerate investments to affordable, supportive and social housing on a priority basis;
- Expanding supports for co-op housing through extending leases for existing co-ops about to expire, create a land bank for new co-ops, and provide security of tenure for co-ops on leased land;
- Work with local governments to expand the "missing middle", such as townhouses and triplexes;
- Establish a capital fund to support the acquisition and maintenance of rental housing by nonprofits to maintain affordable rental units and address the financialization of the rental market;
- Close the bare trust loophole
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Housing speculation
Rent and evictions
BC NDP
- Freeze rents to the end of 2021 and capping increases after that.
- Provide a renter's rebate of $400/year for households earning up to $80,000 annually that are not already receiving other rental support.
Stratas
Human Rights & Equality
Accessibility
Conversion therapy
Diversity in government
Gender-based violence
Gender pay gap
BC NDP
Immigration
BC NDP
Period poverty
BC NDP
Policing
BC NDP
BC Greens
- Restart the Police Act review.
- Review procedures for wellness checks in consultation with BIPOC and health professionals, with a goal of expanding use of integrated mental health crisis teams.
Restart the police act review [...] This would include a review of: all provincial police force contracts, a comprehensive analysis of funding, the depth of policing activity in BC and the roles and responsibilities of law enforcement.
Review procedures for wellness checks in consultation with Indigenous and BIPOC organizations, with a goal of expanding the use of integrated mental health crisis teams in BC for mental health wellness checks.
Invite the BC Human Rights Commissioner to do a study on the impact of police violence and racial discrimination on Indigenous peoples in BC.
— From _The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC_.
Racism
BC NDP
Systemic discrimination
BC NDP
Indigenous Issues
Connection to home communities
BC NDP
Indigenous child welfare
Indigenous culture
Indigenous involvement
BC NDP
Indigenous jobs & investment
Reconciliation
Self-determination
Jobs, the Economy, and Affordability
Agriculture
BC NDP
BC Greens
- Establish a long-term food sustainability strategy to decrease reliance on import supply chains.
- Make food production & food security part of the Agricultural Land Commision's mandate.
- Create a publicly owned agricultural land bank available to lease by new farmers.
Incentivize agro-ecological farming practices.
Support small-scale farms to adopt new technologies to reduce carbon emissions.
Identify options to make farming a more attractive and sustainable endeavour:
- Ensuring that farmers have access to local processing facilities and that they share in the returns from processing.
- Enabling the growing of high value crops, such as cannabis, to supplement farm income.
Provide $10 million per year to fund research and establish regional agricultural bureaus to provide expertise and support to local farmers to apply innovations on-farm and adapt to a changing climate.
Restrict and regulate foreign ownership of ALR land.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Car insurance
BC NDP
BC Liberals
- Open up the automobile insurance market to private insurance vendors.
- Give all new drivers credit for up to four years of driving experience when they demonstrate safe driving habits.
Employment standards
BC NDP
BC Greens
The task force will include representatives of the technology sector, business, workers, and economists.
The task force will recommend ways to modernize our employment standards to adapt to the changing nature of work and technology, and assess jurisdiction and advise on strategies for working with the federal government to ensure that multinational companies are paying their fair share of taxes in BC.
The terms of reference will include considering profit-sharing as a means to ensure businesses who are profitable are paying their workers a living wage, and that workers benefit from the profits that are too often only accrued at the top of an organization.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Film and TV production
BC NDP
Financial assistance
BC NDP
- Give families with a household income under $125,000 annually a one-time direct deposit of $1,000.
- Give single people earning less than $62,000 annually a one-time direct deposit of $500.
A one-time $1,000 direct deposit to families whose household income is under $125,000 annually — with a sliding scale up to $175,000.
A one-time $500 direct deposit to single people earning less than $62,000 annually — with a sliding scale up to $87,000.
— From Working for You.
Food security
Infrastructure investment
BC NDP
[...] wherever possible, we will attach our Community Benefits Agreement (CBAs) to projects launched through the Recovery Investment Fund. Through CBAs, we're providing good jobs, fair wages, and skills training to qualified local workers — particularly those who have traditionally been under-represented in the workforce.
— From Working for You.
Precarious & gig workers
BC NDP
Restauraunts & hospitality
BC NDP
BC Liberals
- Cap online food delivery charges at 15%.
- Provide a loan guarantee programme for tourism and hospitality businesses.
- Allow liquor delivery with takeout.
- Wholesale pricing from any liquor store.
- Streamline approval of patio and outdoor dining.
Single parent employment
Small businesses
BC NDP
BC Liberals
- Eliminate the 2% small business income tax.
- Implement a short-term commercial-rent relief plan that flows relief directly to tenants and supports small businesses unable to access current relief programmes.
- Provide support for PPE from WorkSafeBC surpluses.
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.
Sustainable jobs
BC Greens
- Establish a $500 million fund to support sustainable jobs.
- Develop a clean jobs programme.
- Implement a just transition programme for workers in the oil and gas sector and other industries in transition.
Develop a clean jobs program focused on enhancing BC's natural assets, tree planting, conservation, remediating environmental liabilities, as well as climate adaptation and improving community resilience to climate change.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Tech & Innovation
BC NDP
- Make targeted investments in high-potential, innovative businesses based in BC.
- Introduce a First Patent Program to provide eligible businesses with a rebate on expenses that lead to obtaining their first patent.
- Create 2,000 new tech-relevant spaces in public post-secondary.
We'll create 2,000 new tech-relevant spaces in public post-secondary institutions, provide start-ups with more ISI grants to hire new grads - with a priority on placements for women, Indigenous people, transitioning workers and others - and expand scholarships for people using online courses for necessary skill upgrades.
— From Working for You.
Tourism
BC Liberals
- Provide a loan guarantee programme for tourism and hospitality businesses.
- Implement an aggressive agenda to rebuild and expand BC's tourism sector.
- Develop and grow regional tourism hubs across BC.
BC Greens
- Retool the provincial grant programme to focus on small tourism operators, and work with the industry to establish criteria.
- Work with not-for-profit tourism, cultural facilities, & attractions to develop a separate granting programme.
Work with the federal government to establish a repayable loan program for the hospitality sector and for tourism operators that exceed the criteria for the small tourism operator grant program.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Trucking
Wages
Workplace safety
Work week
Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction
Abstinence-based treatment
Decriminalization
BC NDP
Mental health support
BC NDP
- Focus new mental health initiatives on kids and young adults.
- Develop Complex Care housing.
- Expand access to counselling.
Focus new mental health initiatives on kids and young adults: We've developed an initial mental health approach that focuses on addressing problems early, before they become too big. Moving forward, we'll establish successful Foundry youth centres in more communities and dedicated mental health teams in school districts.
Develop Complex Care housing: We'll provide an increased level of support - including more access to nurses and psychiatrists - for BC's most vulnerable who need more intensive care than supportive housing provides, including in places like the Riverview lands in Coquitlam.
Expand access to counselling: By investing in new e-health and other technologies, we can bring mental health care to more people in all regions of BC - reducing counselling costs for people in rural and remote communities, in particular [...]
— From Working for You.
BC Greens
- Invest in an affordable and accessible mental healthcare system.
- Allocate $1B over a 4-year cycle to address mental health care within MSP.
- Allocate $200M/year in facilities to provide mental healthcare services and rehabilitation.
- Develop and implement a Loneliness Strategy.
Invest to build an affordable and accessible mental healthcare system where cost is not a barrier to seeking help.
Allocate $1.0 billion over a four-year cycle to address mental health care within the medical services plan. Funding should be provided for a comprehensive suite of initiatives including:
- Establishing accessible mental health treatment options for all those struggling with anxiety or depression.
- Early intervention, youth mental health initiatives, integrated primary care specific to youth and mental health enabling families to easily navigate resources in a supportive environment.
- Community based options for responding to those who need mental healthcare and their families such as Clubhouse International.
- Enhanced counselling outreach services to work with the homeless community.
Allocate $200 million per year to invest in facilities to provide mental healthcare services and community-based centres for mental health and rehabilitation; and, accelerate capital plans for construction of tertiary care facilities and detoxification beds. Protect operating funding for facilities.
Develop and implement a Loneliness Strategy.
Conduct a public information campaign to increase awareness and provide information on where to get help.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Overdoses
Policing of drugs
Safe supply
Treatment
BC NDP
- Build new treatment, recovery, detox and after-care facilities, including in Maple Ridge, with some beds specifically for British Columbians under age 24.
- Step up oversight of recovery homes and private treatment providers.
We will build new treatment, recovery, detox and after-care facilities across the province, including in communities with an expressed need such as Maple Ridge, with some beds specifically for British Columbians under age 24. We will also step up oversight of recovery homes and other private treatment providers to ensure quality care, accountability, and value for money.
— From Working for You.
Work-related chronic pain
BC NDP
Public Safety
Gang violence
Photo-radar
Public safety funding
Public safety personnel
Roadside panhandling
Surrey Police transition
Resource Extraction & Export
Forestry
BC NDP
BC Greens
- Make sure profits from forestry go to First Nations and local communities instead of large corporations.
- Manage forests holistically.
- Protect remaining high value old growth forests.
- Generate more jobs and revenue from forestry.
Reform forestry management in BC so that it serves the long-term needs of local communities and supports a truly sustainable industry, where community and ecosystem values are the primary focus of management.
Take back control of our forests from major corporations, ensuring forestry is meeting the needs of local communities. Our forests are a public resource that belongs to the people of BC, and we need to start managing them that way. To achieve this goal the BC Greens would:
Reinstate government authority in decision-making at provincial and local levels, beginning with enhancing the authority of district managers to refuse or amend permits.
Begin a process of tenure reform to redistribute tenures from a few major companies and grow the proportion of tenures held by First Nations and community forests.
Establish a forester general position, an officer of the legislature who is non-partisan and reports to the House annually.
Establish a Chief Scientist as a counterpart to the Chief Forester to ensure multiple values are adequately incorporated into timber supply analysis.
Enhance capacity in FLNRO and establish more community based Ministry of Forests staff, to support the sustainable management of local forest resources and provide well-paying community jobs.
— From _The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC_.
Shift the management framework through reforming legislation, away from an exclusive focus on timber supply to managing for all the values that our forests hold.
Adopt a wider variety of logging practices, including selective logging and longer stand rotations.
Undertake landscape-level ecosystem-based planning, reforestation and restoration in partnership with local communities and First Nations.
Protect communities from wildfires and flooding through landscape level ecologically-centered, forest management and fuel treatment projects.
Restore government capacity to ensure forest stewardship, monitoring and enforcement, and enhance funding for forest inventory research and primary research.
— From _The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC_.
Immediately move to fully implement the recommendations of the old growth review panel in partnership with First Nations. This includes:
- An immediate end to the logging of old growth forests in high risk ecosystems across the province.
- Enacting legislation that establishes conservation of ecosystem health and biodiversity of BC's forests as an overarching priority.
Establish funding mechanisms to support the preservation of our old growth forests.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Ensure that small producers have access to fibre and incentive value-added product innovation, including non-traditional uses of wood fibre including bio fuels, and productive uses of residual fibre.
Apply the carbon tax to slash-pile burning to reduce carbon emissions form our forestry sector and ensure that we use residual materials.
Put an end to raw log exports.
Ensure the benefits of B.C. resource flow to local communities by directly sharing more resource revenues with local First Nations, municipalities, and regional districts.
Better support (sic) forestry workers and communities, including through expanding investments into retraining and support finding new job opportunities.
Investigate opportunities to diversify milling and secondary manufacturing to better use existing timber.
Promote more sustainable development of forest resources, including investing in tourism opportunities and low-carbon economies.
— From _The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC_.
Fracking
Government support for workers
LNG
Mining
BC NDP
Transit & Transportation
BC Ferries
Emissions
Infrastructure
Massey Tunnel replacement
BC Liberals
Transit fares
Transit service
BC NDP
- Expand transit options in the Fraser Valley and the Sea-to-Sky region.
- Add more service to the BC Bus North programme.
- Improve transit connections to Surrey and Langley with SkyTrain, rail, and rapid bus lines.
- Implement the South Island Transportation Strategy.
Expanding transit options for people in growing areas of the province: This includes increased connections within the Tranlink (sic) network for people living in the Fraser Valley and the Sea-to-Sky region, expanded West Coast Express service, and more service for the successful BC Bus North program for rural communities.
— From Working for You.
Improving connections to Surrey and Langley: We'll work with communities to complete the Skytrain (sic) expansion project and add new rail and rapid bus lines.
Delivering better transit for the South island: We will implement the South Island Transportation Strategy, and provide more active transportation infrastructure, rapid bus service to the West Shore, and safety upgrades to the Malahat highway.
Planning for future clean transit projects with long-lasting economic benefits: We'll work with the communities and regions to support planning of key projects, like high-speed transit links for the North Shore and the expansion of rail up the Fraser Valley - bringing cleaner transit and more construction jobs for BC workers.
Promoting cleaner communities and better health through active transportation: We'll work with communities to expand their networks of active transportation as we move towards our CleanBC goal of doubling trips taken via walking, biking and other kinds of active networks by the year 2030.
— From Working for You.
BC Greens
- Create a South Island regional transportation strategy.
- Prioritize investment in transit service.
- Ensure that TransLink & BC Transit can maintain service levels despite losses from COVID.
- Redesign the transit funding model for stable long-term funding.
- Consider mobility pricing.
Work with local governments to establish a vision for sustainable transportation in an era of expanded population grown on the South Island, including through:
- A regional transportation strategy;
- Establishing a regional governance body to overcome fractured decision-making and deliver integrated planning for the growing region;
- Investing in support expansion of public transit options to help people move around more easily;
- Building frequent and affordable public transportation links between cities, such as between Cowichan and the CRD.
Prioritize investment in transit service coming out of COVID-19 to support economic recovery, improve livability of communities, and reduce GHG emissions.
Ensure that the projected long-term losses facing TransLink, BC Transit and BC Ferries are dealt with so that service levels are maintained, allowing ridership to quickly bounce back through the economic recover period.
Ensure no disruption in future expansion due do the pandemic.
Work with local and regional governments to redesign the transit funding model and establish an equitable, stable long-term funding model for transit.
- This review would include consideration of mobility pricing.
Develop climate and sustainability criteria, including consideration of cumulative impacts, that will be applied to all future capital projects including transportation infrastructure investments.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Misc
Arts & culture
Blockades
Elections
Family services
Foreign money
Japanese internment
BC NDP
Local government funding
Rural communities
Senior drivers' medical exams
South Asian-Canadian museum
BC NDP
Taxes
Tallying it up
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