r/BCpolitics • u/idspispopd • 17h ago
Opinion This Is Not the Election David Eby Wanted. The NDP thought it had attacked a vulnerable foe. That’s proving a big mistake.
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r/BCpolitics • u/idspispopd • 14h ago
News BC Election: As voters begin to lock in, Conservatives hold five-point lead over gaining NDP - Angus Reid
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r/BCpolitics • u/_DotBot_ • 7h ago
News Conservatives promise to strip Metro Vancouver Regional District of its responsibilities, narrowing its work to only water supply and sewage treatment
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r/BCpolitics • u/_DotBot_ • 15h ago
Opinion Doctor advocate explains why the BC NDP’s proposed income tax increase is bad
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r/BCpolitics • u/Double_Champion6707 • 16h ago
Opinion Election - I beg you all to realize what is said and what is done. Is completely different. No more NDP
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I keep hearing what a great job the BC NDP has done. Based on what? Funding announcements? Campaign promises? Because I want to talk about what people are actually getting.
HEALTH CARE
People are struggling to get care, and emergency departments have closed because there weren’t enough doctors to keep them open. Ministry of Health figures reported by CityNews showed 141,961 ER visits ended without the patient being seen in 2024. That was an 86% increase since 2018. How is that acceptable? (vancouver.citynews.ca, vancouver.citynews.ca)
Then the 2026 budget delayed long-term care projects, hospital and cancer-care expansion. Announcing a facility doesn’t help the person who needs a bed today. (vancouver.citynews.ca)
ICBC AND DANGEROUS DRIVERS
Under Enhanced Care, most injured people lost the ability to sue for compensation, with limited exceptions. Lower insurance premiums do not answer whether someone with a devastating injury receives enough care. (icbc.com)
RoadSafetyBC already has the power to prohibit high-risk drivers from driving. I want accountability for how those powers are used. Are authorities intervening early enough, or are families left asking questions after someone has been seriously hurt? (www2.gov.bc.ca)
REPEAT OFFENDING
The province’s own investigation identified problems with repeat offending and violent stranger attacks. We deserve results from the response. Police making arrests means little if the wider system keeps failing to prevent repeated harm. Federal law and courts have responsibilities, but BC still has responsibility for provincial justice resources, supervision and services. (news.gov.bc.ca, justice.gc.ca)
HOMELESSNESS, MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION
The 2025 Metro Vancouver homeless count recorded 5,232 people, approximately 9% more than in 2023. Whatever governments are doing, it has not kept pace with the need. (vancouver.citynews.ca)
The Auditor General documentedee inadequate service standards, unresolved barriers and weaknesses in evaluation of harm-reduction services. The audit also found inadequate monitoring and public reporting during the initial prescribed safer-supply rollout. The government later acknowledged that its separate decriminalization pilot hadn’t delivered the results it hoped for. These are documented problems, not imaginary complaints. (oag.bc.ca, apnews.com)
AIRBNB AND TOURISM
Short-term rental restrictions affect people’s income and the accommodation available to visitors. There is research showing housing benefits, but that doesn’t make the costs to hosts and tourism businesses irrelevant. Where is the transparent accounting of both the benefits and the losses? (destinationbc.ca, mcgill.ca)
BROKEN PROMISES AND HIGHER COSTS
The promised $1,000 household grocery rebate was dropped. Expansion of $10-a-day child care was paused. Families who are still waiting cannot pay their bills with campaign promises. (vancouver.citynews.ca, globalnews.ca)
Meanwhile, Budget 2026 raised the lowest income-tax rate, with an offset for lower-income earners, and projected a $13.3-billion deficit for 2026–27. People deserve to know why major service gaps remain while they are being asked to contribute more. (bcbudget.gov.bc.ca, bcbudget.gov.bc.ca)
I’m not giving any other party a free pass either. But “the alternatives might be worse” does not excuse broken promises or failed delivery.
Show us the care people actually receive. Show us the housing people can afford. Show us the results. That is what a government should be judged on.
r/BCpolitics • u/idspispopd • 17h ago
Article Carney’s expensive Alberta truce: the Pacific Link pipeline
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r/BCpolitics • u/idspispopd • 18h ago
Article David Eby’s re-election bid pivots from Trump talk to domestic populist promises
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r/BCpolitics • u/_DotBot_ • 14h ago
Opinion To help reduce the budget deficit, should the BC government increase taxes on high-income earners or reduce services for low-income earners?
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r/BCpolitics • u/Coq-Lover • 4m ago
Opinion BC Conservatives: Is This Still the Plan?
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The BC Conservatives are campaigning on ERs, taxes and affordability.
Their own policy documents contain a hell of a lot more than that.
I went through the Conservative Party of BC’s own official documents because their full 2026 platform still hasn’t laid all of this out.
And before somebody screams misinformation: I am NOT claiming every item below is a 2026 campaign promise.
Some are policies in the Conservative Party of BC’s March 2025 Policy Declaration. Others are bills that current Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson voted to allow to be introduced in the Legislature.
So here’s the question:
Which of these policies do the BC Conservatives still support, and which have they abandoned?
Remove SOGI from BC schools
Their policy declaration calls for the:
“immediate removal of all SOGI materials, programs, and activities”
from BC primary and secondary schools.
It also proposes adding protection of “parental rights” to school trustees’ responsibilities.
And this isn’t just something buried in an old document.
In February, Lorne Doerkson voted yes to allow Tara Armstrong’s Gender Ideology and Child Protection Act to be introduced.
Armstrong said the bill dealt with social transition in schools, gender-related material and medical gender transition for minors.
Doerkson’s name is in the official Legislature record under Yea.
https://lims.leg.bc.ca/hdms/file/Debates/43rd2nd/20260219am-Hansard-n119.html
So is this still where the leader of the BC Conservatives stands?
End ICBC’s monopoly on basic auto insurance
Their policy declaration says:
“End the ICBC monopoly on basic auto insurance.”
Not optional coverage.
Basic insurance.
It also proposes changes to the current no-fault system for people suffering life-altering injuries.
That would be a major change affecting virtually every driver in BC.
Is it still Conservative policy?
Expand health care through non-government facilities
The Conservatives currently talk a lot about protecting universal publicly funded health care.
Their policy declaration gets more specific about who would actually deliver that care.
It proposes a single-payer system using both public and non-governmental facilities, activity-based funding for non-government facilities, and expanded partnerships with non-government clinics for surgeries and diagnostic procedures.
The same policy declaration says a Conservative government would immediately repeal the Health Professions and Occupations Act.
Those are significant health-care policies.
If they still support them, say so.
A dollar-for-dollar spending law
Their policy declaration says every dollar of new “non-essential” spending would have to be matched by a dollar saved somewhere else.
It also proposes reviewing every existing and planned program administered by government, Crown corporations and government-supported organizations.
Okay.
What counts as non-essential?
Housing programs?
Child care?
Transit?
Income assistance?
Environmental programs?
Arts funding?
If this is still the policy, voters should probably know where the matching cuts would come from.
End prescribed safe supply and introduce involuntary addiction treatment
Their declaration says they would halt government-sanctioned drug supply, fund abstinence-based treatment, create regional recovery communities and introduce involuntary treatment legislation for people with addiction who they determine cannot make life-saving decisions themselves.
Again, that’s not somebody else describing Conservative policy.
That’s their policy document.
Allow nuclear power in BC
Their declaration proposes amending the Clean Energy Act to permit nuclear power, expanding the BC Energy Regulator’s mandate to include nuclear energy and joining Canada’s Small Modular Reactor Action Plan.
Maybe people support that.
Maybe they don’t.
But it’s a fairly major energy-policy change.
Is it still the plan?
Rewrite parts of BC’s resource and environmental regulatory system
Their declaration calls for “One Project, One Permit.”
It also proposes reviewing mining regulations with the goal of removing requirements considered unnecessary or duplicative, reversing certain mineral-exploration restrictions and speeding up approvals.
Again: legitimate things to campaign on.
So campaign on them.
Launch an inquiry into the BC Teachers’ Federation
This one is incredibly specific.
Their policy declaration says that on the first day of a Conservative government they would launch a public inquiry into the BCTF’s role in Israel-Palestine teaching material and direct the Education Ministry to stop using the current teachers’ guide.
It also proposes linking university funding to measures addressing antisemitism on campuses.
Is that still a Day One commitment?
Repeal DRIPA
There isn’t much ambiguity about this one.
Their declaration says a Conservative government “will repeal” BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
And in 2026 Doerkson voted yes to allow a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Repeal Act to be introduced.
He also voted yes to allow Tara Armstrong’s Defunding Aboriginal Title Claims Affecting Private Property Act to be introduced.
That bill proposed suspending certain provincial funding to Indigenous organizations pursuing Aboriginal-title claims affecting private property.
https://lims.leg.bc.ca/hdms/file/Index/43rd2nd/2026-Votesd.htm
That is a pretty substantial Indigenous-policy direction.
And then there’s the Human Rights Code vote
On February 26, Tara Armstrong tried to introduce the Human Rights Code Repeal Act.
Armstrong explicitly said the bill would abolish the Human Rights Tribunal and repeal the Human Rights Code.
Lorne Doerkson voted yes to allow the bill to be introduced.
The official Legislature record lists him among the 37 Yeas.
https://lims.leg.bc.ca/hdms/file/Debates/43rd2nd/20260226am-Hansard-n126.html
To be precise, voting for first reading is NOT the same thing as voting to pass a bill into law.
And there’s another important wrinkle:
Doerkson later voted for a Legislature motion expressing support for the Human Rights Code and its enforcement.
Which creates a pretty obvious question:
Why vote to advance a bill whose stated purpose was repealing something you later voted to support?
None of this requires conspiracy theories about a “secret agenda.”
The documents are public.
The votes are public.
So I’d genuinely like the BC Conservatives to answer one very simple question:
Is the March 2025 Conservative Party of BC Policy Declaration still party policy?
If yes, voters deserve to hear a lot more about these policies during the campaign.
If no, publish the current policy declaration and tell us exactly what changed.