A COMMON SENSE PLAN FOR ALL BRITISH COLUMBIANS
Over the coming weeks and months, we want to hear from you, on what policies you believe are needed to turn our Province around. In the meantime, here’s a sampling of where we stand on many of today’s most important issues.
END THE ICBC MONOPOLY
ICBC is a bloated, ineffective government monopoly that charges some of the highest rates in the entire country. It’s time to allow choice and competition so that British Columbians can shop around for the price and plan that’s right for them.
GET GAS PRICES UNDER CONTROL
British Columbians are being taxed into poverty. With the highest gas prices in North America, it’s time to axe the Carbon Tax, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and ensure more refined product reaches the B.C. market.
STABILIZE THE HOUSING MARKET
Encourage a stable and predictable housing market. This means getting prices under control by promoting the development of new housing supply while cracking down on illegal money laundering that has inflated prices and facilitated criminal activity.
CHOICE IN DAY CARE
Support all new parents with the costs of daycare directly, while incentivizing the private sector to create new daycare spaces. This plan includes forming partnerships with municipalities.
The Economy
LOWER TAXES, SMALLER GOVERNMENT
The government is an inefficient delivery vehicle for services and its growth is cannibalizing private-sector job creation. Wasteful spending should be cut and the savings returned to taxpayers.
BALANCE THE BUDGET
It is immoral (and financially hazardous) to continue living beyond our means and leaving our children with the bill. While not immediate, we will plan on balancing the budget.
CHAMPION SMALL BUSINESS
Small and medium-sized businesses are the backbone of our economy and the bedrock of our communities. Useless and redundant regulations need to be removed, while larger corporations need to be held accountable if they engage in unfair or anti-competitive practices.
ENERGY & THE ENVIRONMENT
SCRAP THE CARBON TAX
The regressive, job-killing carbon tax drives up the cost of living and has no impact on global emissions. It is unfair to rural and northern communities and leads to the offshoring of jobs overseas.
EXPAND LNG
Dramatically expand B.C.’s natural gas production and LNG export facilities and reduce global emissions through the displacement of coal-fired electricity in countries like China.
GET PIPELINES BUILT
Pipelines are the safest and most economical means of transporting oil and natural gas and are essential in getting our resources to market. Their construction, including TMX, Coastal GasLink and Northern Gateway, deserve our complete support.
ORESTRY, MINING AND B.C.’S RESOURCE INDUSTRIES
SUPPORT B.C. FORESTRY
B.C.’s forest industry is the envy of the world. It is 100% sustainable and renewable and supports tens of thousands of high-paying jobs across the province.
HOLD ACTIVISTS ACCOUNTABLE
Activists who impede the activity of resource development through illegal blockades, harassment and violence must be held legally, and financially responsible for their actions – as must the groups that support them.
ENCOURAGE MINING, HYDRO-ELECTRICITY, FISHING AND MORE!
British Columbia is a resource superpower. Encourage and promote the development of these resources in a way that is sustainable, and that delivers maximum value to the taxpayers of our province.
EDUCATION
SUPPORT PARENTS’ CHOICES
Parents have the right to determine how and where their children will be educated. Government must provide fair and reasonable funding to families for the type of education they choose for their children. This includes public, private or homeschooling.
REMOVE IDEOLOGY FROM THE CLASSROOM
Political bias and ideology have no place in B.C.’s education curriculum and must be removed immediately. Schools must be places of learning – not tools for activism and indoctrination.
PROTECT FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS
Universities and colleges that do not support and defend freedom of expression on campus will be defunded. Taxpayer money will not be used to support places of censorship and intimidation.
POST-SECONDARY FUNDING RE-ALLOCATION
Government funding within post-secondary institutions will be re-allocated to promote and incentivize training in essential fields such as medicine, engineering, and skilled trades.
HEALTH CARE
SERIOUS, SUBSTANTIVE REFORM
The performance of British Columbia’s health care system throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has been abysmal. Chronic shortages in physicians, nurses and ICU capacity has become painstakingly clear. It’s time for serious reform.
CHOICE AND COMPETITION
Allow choice and competition in the delivery of health care services while retaining universal access for all British Columbians. End the government's court case against private clinics and unleash the power of private-sector innovation.
REDUCE WAIT TIMES
Unless we embrace bold reforms, British Columbians will continue to suffer with unreasonable delays on many medical procedures. Reform hospital funding to incentivize output - just like many European countries (and Australia) have done to improve results.
MORE DOCTORS, MORE NURSES
Incentivize post-secondary institutions to train more RNs, LPNs, and physicians by prioritizing government funding and support for these programs and students.
OPPOSE AND REPEAL BILL 36
B.C.'s healthcare professionals have a right to freedom of conscience and bodily autonomy. Under Bill 36, the healthcare workers we once applauded as "frontline heroes" could be fined or jailed for refusing government decrees, including COVID vaccine mandates. We oppose this bill.
MENTAL ILLNESS, HOMELESSNESS AND THE B.C. OPIOID CRISIS
RE-OPEN MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES
Re-open and revitalize mental health facilities to give suffering British Columbians the help that they deserve.
END HEROIN HAND-OUTS
Handing out heroin and other hard drugs to those suffering from addiction does not solve the problem and instead perpetuates a coercive and destructive addiction.
STOP WAREHOUSING THOSE SUFFERING
Taxpayer money should not be used to purchase hotels in residential areas and warehouse those suffering from addiction. These programs don’t work, crater property values and increase crime in the community.
REHABILITATION
Instead of “destigmatizing” hard drug use, it’s time to acknowledge the serious harm it causes to users, their families and the communities around them. Our plan will introduce voluntary and mandatory rehabilitation, giving those suffering from addiction an opportunity to get clean and rebuild their lives..
CRIME AND LAWLESSNESS
REVERSE DECRIMINALIZATION OF HARD DRUGS
Drugs like fentanyl, crystal meth and crack cocaine are destructive, life-devouring substances that have no place in our society. Police should have the tools to confiscate and limit their availability.
DEFEND THE POLICE
Instead of defunding the police, our brave men and women in law enforcement should be supported and given the resources they need to successfully do their jobs.
CRACK DOWN ON VIOLENT CRIME
Zero tolerance for violent and repeat offenders. End the revolving door justice system by directing prosecutors to pursue maximum sentencing for those convicted of serious crimes.
APPOINT PRINCIPLED JUDGES
Appoint judges that put victims and their families first – not the sob stories of hardened criminals.
NO MORE “TENT CITIES”
Illegal “tent cities” lead to increases in crime, violence and disorder in otherwise peaceful communities. They are unfair to those who work hard, pay their taxes, follow the law and have had their neighborhoods stolen from them.
CULTURE AND FREEDOM
OPPOSE VACCINE MANDATES AND PASSPORTS
While medically-approved inoculation should be encouraged, and vaccines offered to all British Columbians, individuals should not be mandated or coerced into receiving any medical treatment against their will, and fired government employees (including nurses) should be hired back immediately.
DEFEND OUR HISTORY
British Columbia’s (and Canada’s) history is not perfect – but nothing (or no one) ever is. We should be proud of the province we call home and the generations who came before us. Historical markers of that past legacy, including statues, must be protected and, where needed, restored.
OPPOSE IDENTITY POLITICS
Identity politics is a divisive ideological force that must be rejected. British Columbians should be treated equally regardless of their race, gender, religion or sexual orientation. Programs that discriminate based on these characteristics must be disbanded.
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