BC Liberal Party
Children, Childcare, & Youth in Care
Childcare
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.
Early childhood development
Youth in care
Climate Change & the Environment
BC Parks
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
Conservation
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.
Electric vehicles
Emissions
Plastic waste
Retrofits
Education
Adult learning
Mental health and schools
New schools
School infrastructure
School tuition
Schools and COVID
Special learning needs
Healthcare
Care homes & assisted living
Care homes and COVID-19
Health infrastructure
Healthcare staffing
Homecare
Inclusiveness
Pandemic response
Prescription drugs
Sexual assault
Vaccinations
Wait-times
Housing & Homelessness
Homelessness
Housing affordability
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.
Housing speculation
Rent and evictions
Stratas
Human Rights & Equality
Accessibility
Diversity in government
Gender pay gap
Gender-based violence
Policing
Racism
Systemic discrimination
Indigenous Issues
Indigenous culture
Indigenous jobs & investment
Self-determination
Jobs, the Economy, and Affordability
Agriculture
Car insurance
Financial assistance
Infrastructure investment
Restauraunts & hospitality
Single parent employment
Small businesses
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.
Tech & Innovation
Tourism
Trucking
Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction
Abstinence-based treatment
Mental health support
Treatment
Public Safety
Gang violence
Photo-radar
Public safety funding
Public safety personnel
Roadside panhandling
Surrey Police transition
Resource Extraction & Export
Forestry
LNG
Mining
Transit & Transportation
BC Ferries
Infrastructure
Massey Tunnel replacement
Transit service
Misc. topics
Arts & culture
Blockades
Elections
Family services
Foreign money
Rural communities
Senior drivers' medical exams
Taxes
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