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Education platforms

Here's what the candidates in Peace River North, and their parties, are promising.

Childcare

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BC Conservative

  • Prioritise $10-a-day spaces for children and families with the fewest alternatives and highest need

    "$10-a-day spaces first for the kids who need them most. A place on a waitlist is not child care. As we create more spaces, we will prioritize $10-a-day spaces for the children and families with the fewest alternatives and highest need." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

  • Create 24-hour childcare spaces, and encourage childcare at or near hospitals

    "24-hour child care. Create 24-hour spaces for shift workers and first responders, and encourage child care at or near worksites such as hospitals." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

  • Increase the BC Family Benefit and the Affordable Child Care Benefit

    "Put money in parents’ hands. Increase the BC Family Benefit and the Affordable Child Care Benefit so they reflect the cost-of-living pressure on young families, whether they choose child care outside the house, care at home with a parent, or help from family." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

  • Provide faster credential recognition for childcare providers

    "Faster credential recognition for child care providers. We will make it simple for educators, social workers, teachers and others with relevant experience to work as Early Childhood Educator assistants, especially over the summer months." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

K-12 curriculum

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BC Conservative

  • Focus on literacy and mathematics
  • Restore letter grades for grades 4 to 9
  • Bring back consistent, supervised, curriculum-based provincial exams
  • Include financial literacy, civics, citizenship, Holocaust education, and digital and AI safety in curriculum

    "Prepare students for life. Before graduation, students will learn financial literacy—budgeting, saving, interest and credit—alongside civics, citizenship and digital and AI safety. Students will also complete a Holocaust-education unit." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

"Restore academic standards: focus on evidence-based literacy and mathematics, restore letter grades for grades 4 to 9 and bring back consistent, supervised, curriculum-based provincial examinations to raise standards." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

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K-12 learning needs

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BC Conservative

  • Make it easier for educators to establish order

    "Schools should be safe places to learn, with clear expectations and respect for every child. We will make it easier for educators to establish order, and we will enable School Liaison Officer programs." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

  • Encourage School Liaison Officer programmes

    "Schools should be safe places to learn, with clear expectations and respect for every child. We will make it easier for educators to establish order, and we will enable School Liaison Officer programs." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

LGBTQ+ students and bullying

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BC Conservative

  • Repeal the Ministry of Education's endorsement of SOGI 123, an independently-developed, optional set of anti-bullying and teaching resources related to sexual orientation and gender identity

    “I’ll say this about SOGI. I think that it has become an absolute lightning rod for division in our province, and it has become a challenge. And I think that many people are confused about what SOGI has become in our school.

    I firmly believe that we have to repeal SOGI. Obviously we have to provide a safe place for our kids. Just like I said in Bridgeview yesterday, I went as a child to the Bridgeview Elementary School and felt safe.

    We need to continue that tradition. But I do believe that SOGI has to be repealed.”

    — conservativebc.ca, 2026-10-13

Police in schools

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BC Conservative

  • Encourage School Liaison Officer programmes

    "Schools should be safe places to learn, with clear expectations and respect for every child. We will make it easier for educators to establish order, and we will enable School Liaison Officer programs." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

School construction and upgrades

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BC Conservative

  • Double the Playground Equipment Program to $10M/year

    "Double the Playground Equipment Program to $10 million a year, to help 50 schools replace aging playground equipment each year. Children deserve places to play, and parents should not have to spend years fundraising for them." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

  • Build a new middle school on Burke Mountain

    "New Middle School on Burke Mountain. The community of Burke Mountain has been growing in population for two decades. After years of delay, construction has started on a 1,000 seat combined middle/secondary school. A Conservative Government will ensure the school is completed. But it is not enough. A new Government will immediately start planning for a dedicated Middle School on Burke Mountain. No longer will Burke Mountain families have to send their children to schools outside their community." — conservativebc.ca, retrieved 2026-10-23

School meals

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BC Conservative

  • Expand school meal programmes in high-need communities

    "Expand school meal programs in high-need communities. No child in British Columbia should have to go hungry at school, ever." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

Trades & manufacturing

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BC Conservative

  • Audit SkilledTradesBC

    "Audit SkilledTradesBC. We don’t need more bureaucracy to build a skilled workforce. We will review the Crown Corporation to ensure it is meeting its mandate." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

  • Extend the BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund
  • Bring back shop classes in grade school, and expand apprenticeships, dual-credit programmes, and paid work experience

    "Restore pathways into trades and work: bring back shop classes, expand apprenticeships, dual-credit programs and paid work experience" — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

    "• Connect high school education to trades, careers and opportunity. Give students more opportunities to begin career training and qualifications before graduation. We will bring back shop classes and build shop facilities in new schools.

    • Expand dual-credit programs, apprenticeships and paid work experience with post-secondary institutions and employers. We will make it easier for schools to hire qualified Red Seal tradespeople, musicians, athletes and other experts.

    • We will make it easier for apprentices to stay employed during technical training and work with employers to expand training in skilled trades and other occupations where BC needs workers."

    — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18