I want to see British Columbia become a vibrant, bustling province of free and inspiring human beings. I envision a Province of tremendous wealth and economic success: from big Canadian companies, to successful small businesses. In my vision, citizens, freed from excessive taxation and overbearing regulation, will create the most propserous jurisdiction in North America. We will have enough wealth to support our families, our communities, and those in need. Life will be filled with purpose and reward, but above all, liberty.
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Enjeux divers
Affordable Housing
Promesse de Libertarian
Housing prices reached new highs during the past year, making the dream of ownership more difficult. The BC Liberals want to spend billions on interest-free loans, which place a heavy burden on taxpayers while further inflating home prices and put our economy at risk of a 2008 style sub-prime mortgage crisis. A safer and less costly way to keep home prices reasonable is to increase supply. Bringing new housing stock to market is restrained in numerous ways. For example, over 80% of the land in Vancouver is zoned for single-family residential only. By relaxing or removing these restrictions, we can free up the market to provide more housing at lower cost.
Work with municipalities to reduce development costs, streamline building permit processes, and simplify and accelerate rezoning
Budget and Taxes
Promesse de Don Wilson
The Provincial government has a lot of debt. They owe about $66 billion. That doesn't include P3 commitments. Last year the government spent about $2.5 billion just on interest payments. By comparison, social assistance and disability cost the government about $1.3 billion. The government must balance it's budget.
Promesse de Libertarian
Because we don't pay directly for services offered by government, politicians come up with incomprehensible formulas to make us think that someone else (the rich, corporations) will pay more. But there is no free lunch and funds must come from somewhere. By trying to hide costs, politicians just add costs, complicate our lives and create dissension among us over conflicting meanings of "fairness". Taxation is compulsion and libertarians seek to minimize compulsion. Wherever possible, government services should be financed by fees paid by willing customers. In a transition period, we seek taxes which are as simple to understand as possible (so government can't hide the cost of their programs) and ones which cause the least damage to our economy.
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Personal income tax: Remove all tax credits and exemptions and replace them with a lower overall tax rate. Make filing simple by using a BC Income Tax form that fits on a postcard.
Business and Sales taxes: Encourage business growth and job creation by replacing the complex and burdensome PST and corporate income tax with a simple and low tax on business revenue.
Carbon tax: Repeal it. Fuel prices are already too high, with nearly half the cost made up by various taxes.
Education
Promesse de Don Wilson
Parents should have the right to determine what school their child goes to. Right now, if a parent puts their child in a private school, they also have to pay for public school, even though their child doesn't go there. This is unfair.
Promesse de Libertarian
In an age when knowledge is widely available online to suit anyone’s individual interests and learning styles, our public education system seems decidedly old-fashioned. And the labour struggles that shut down schools would seem like relics of a bygone era if they weren’t such a recent memory. The problem with the current system is that responsibility for how schools are run flows the wrong way—up to administrators, bureaucrats and union leaders, instead of down to students and parents. We believe that parents are the best advocates for their children’s educational needs, and that teachers who have been freed from the one-size-fits-all model will be empowered to bring out the best in each child. If schools have the right incentives and the flexibility to customize curriculum to the diverse learning needs of children, they can prepare them well for 21st century life.
Instead of funds going to each school district, each family with children will receive a voucher to spend at the public or independent school or home learning plan of their choice
Maintain provincial standards for core subjects such as math and English, but provide greater autonomy and flexibility for schools (public, private, and home schools) to meet the diverse learning needs of children
Environment and Natural Resources
Fentanyl Crisis
Promesse de Libertarian
BC is experiencing an epidemic with fentanyl and other powerful opioids that is claiming hundreds of lives. It's also tying up emergency responders, making it harder for everyone to get an ambulance when they need one. All options need to be on the table when dealing with a crisis like this, and decriminalization is a key part of the solution. By confronting this as a health issue instead of a criminal issue, we will discover new ways to reduce harm, encourage treatment of addictions, and make our communities safer. And eliminating victimless crime from the police’s mandate we allow police departments to focus their limited resources on catching real criminals (those who assault people or steal their stuff). Exclude the enforcement of victimless crimes from the provincial Police Services Agreement
Health care
Promesse de Don Wilson
It is presently illegal to pay for private medical care. Citizens are forced to use the government's health care system. This is a state imposed monopoly and the inevitable result is an expensive, ineffective system.
Promesse de Libertarian
Let's admit that the performance of our public healthcare system is lousy. A trip to emergency rarely takes less than several hours. It can take months to see a specialist. Patients on waitlists see their conditions worsen or even die, yet the lines get longer. Why? It isn't because we don’t spend enough on healthcare, which is the single largest item in our provincial budget and continues to grow. No, the problem is that this sector of economy hasn’t been provided with incentives to innovate or be more efficient. If patients had more control over how resources were allocated, there would be much better service and much less waste.​ allow health practitioners (doctors, nurses and paramedics) to offer services for mutually agreeable fees that are not covered by MSP (home visits, phone prescriptions, etc.) allow health insurance alternatives to MSP so that consumers can choose an insurance plan better tailored to their own needs allow more experimentation in care delivery models, such as primary direct care (where health providers contract to provide patients with a clear set of medical services for a low monthly fee)​
Oil and Gas Industry
Post-Secondary Education
Ride-Sharing
Promesse de Don Wilson
The government shouldn't have the right to tell citizens how they get around. Uber is awesome, taxis are terrible.
Transit
Biographie
Donald Wilson grew up in North Vancouver. He attended Canyon Heights Elementary, Handsworth Secondary, then spent 2 years at Capilano College (as it then was) before going to UBC.
Donald graduated from UBC Law in 2010. He became a member of the British Columbia Law Society in 2011. Donald's law practice has included real estate, civil litigation and family law. Donald currently works for a small firm in New Westminster practicing family law.