Speech From Throne
Friday, September 8, 2017 @ 2:31 PM
Prince George, B.C. – The NDP have delivered their first Throne Speech in 16 years.
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ieutenant Governor Judith Guichon delivered the government’s blue print which includes:
- promise to recover and rebuild the communities impacted by wildfires
- action on the opioid crisis
- addressing homelessness
- affordable child care creating more spaces and training more early childhood educators
- government to government partnership with Indigenous Peoples
- reform the B.C.. election finance campaign laws to eliminate corporate and union donations
- Move the fixed election date to the fall of 2021
- public consultation in developing a full budget for February 2018
- support for tenants
- fair wage commission to set the path towards $15 dollar an hour minimum wage
- a poverty reduction plan will be legislated
- comprehensive housing strategy to create affordable homes for people
- September budget will give “proper funding” for classrooms
- free bus passes for those with disabilities
- build new hospitals and urgent care centres
- reduce and then eliminate MSP premiums
- New human rights commission
- Establish an “innovation Commission”
Comments
Sooo, any mention on how to pay for these grandiose plans?
Taxes. Duh.
The same way your heroes payed for their grandiose plans. However they won’t be claiming BC has the lowest personal taxes in Canada but tax the hell out of everything else we did in our daily lives, like your pals did.
Digger stated the obvious (and I agree). Another way of saying it would be,”The same way Christy was going to pay for it when she had almost the same throne speech not that many weeks ago.”
You got that right anotherside.
I see that a Liberal took the Speakers position so that firms up Horgans position.
4 more years!!!
And yet the Social credit and the Liberals have been in for 40 plus years and what has that done for the workers of BC.
And as far as Crispy goes she stole the NDP platform.
Turns out the bridge they built was over 150 million
And ICBC is almost broke thanks to past governments talking the revenue and putting it into general revenue and paying out Hugh salaries to their buddies.
Easy to tell who is liberal or NDP suporter (me? Liberal)
since the liberals kicked their speaker out of their caucus they are now down three votes. seems like smart politics from the ndp
I was looking for the one to freeze ICBC rates as promised
Hahaha “Jinny Sims and Horgy pose for photos with a convicted gunman” quite the headline this morning, “I didn’t know he was there” was their quote but Jinny had given him a medal in 2013 while the court case was ongoing. Only a month ago Hoagy hosted a 500 buck a head fundraiser, come play golf with the Premier for 2,000.00 a foursome! The more things change the more they stay the same
and the NDP supporters will say, but, but, but!
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