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Resource Extraction & Export platforms

Here's what the candidates in Richmond-Steveston, and their parties, are promising.

Forestry

BC NDP
  • Dedicate a specific portion of the annual allowable cut to higher value producers who create new jobs for workers in BC.
  • Plant more trees.

BC Liberals
  • Reinstate the Rural Dividend Fund.
  • Implement a market-pricing stumpage system.
  • Modernize forest management practices.
  • Aggressively defend BC's interests in softwood lumber trade issues.
  • Increase investments in silviculture.
  • Support development of mass timber structural products.

Government support for workers

BC NDP
Establish a new Worker Training & Job Opportunity Office to maximize the impact of an Economic Recovery Plan for workers and communities, with a focus on retraining, supporting communities facing job loss, developing higher value goods, and accessing new global markets.
We don't have any BC Liberals policies on Government support for workers.

LNG

BC Liberals
  • Expedite Indigenous-lead LNG export projects through collaborative agreements with Indigenous groups.
  • Work with Indigenous groups to establish accelerated review and approval processes.

Mining

BC NDP
Create a Mining Innovation Hub to identify and support innovation, offer training for workers in new technologies, regulatory excellence, environmental management, and low-carbon approaches.

BC Liberals
  • Implement a fully online digital regulatory system by 2025.
  • Improve the process for mine development, permitting, inspection, and remediation, and cut permit-processing time in half.
  • Pursue benefit sharing for small and rural communities.