Ceci est une page de 2026 British Columbia Provincial Election.
James Chumsa
Candidat
BC Communist pour Cowichan Valley
Affordability
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Childcare
Promesses de BC Communist
Make a genuine long-term commitment to a public universal, affordable, high quality child care system desperately needed by working class families.
Implement an Early Childhood Educator (ECE) Wage Grid paying at least $35 – $45/hr.
Expand school-age spaces and facilities in elementary schools in partnership with public, non-profit and Indigenous groups.
Stabilize and expand existing $10-a-Day programs with long-term budgets based on an equitable funding formula.
Ensure childcare is accessible to shiftworkers.
Food costs
Promesses de BC Communist
End removals from the Agricultural Land Reserve, encourage food production in urban areas.
Increase provincial funding to ensure that all school districts can offer hot breakfast and lunch programs for all K-12 students.
Implement price controls on essential grocery items.
Fuel and vehicle costs
Promesses de BC Communist
Nationalize the energy industry to offer fuel to people at subsidized prices.
Expand public transit and make it free.
Post-secondary costs and loans
Promesses de BC Communist
Post secondary should be free; educating our youth is one of the best investments a country can make.
Cancel all student debt.
Poverty
Promesses de BC Communist
Abolish income tax on earnings under $50,000.
Roll back the tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations given in 2001 by the Campbell Liberals and fund education, housing, transit, and social services through progressive provincial taxation.
Implement a Guaranteed Annual Livable Income.
Public transit
Promesses de BC Communist
Free public transit for all.
Create an accessible province-wide bus transit system. Immediately create and enforce transit-only lanes in major cities to speed up transit and encourage more bus ridership.
lace transit under public ownership and democratic control.
Seniors' benefits
Promesses de BC Communist
Raise social assistance, disability rates and pension by 100%.
Legislate to limit rents to 20% of household income.
Tax measures and rebates
Promesses de BC Communist
Shift the tax burden off working people and make corporations pay their fair share.
Abolish income tax on earnings under $50,000.
Roll back the tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations given in 2001 by the Campbell Liberals and fund education, housing, transit, and social services through progressive provincial taxation.
Climate Change & the Environment
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Adaptation to climate change
Promesses de BC Communist
Cut hydrocarbon emissions now.
Prioritize renewable energy and conservation.
Cancel the 100% US-owned taxpayer-funded Ksi Lisims
Conservation and environmental protection
Promesses de BC Communist
Cancel taxpayer subsidies to the LNG industry, make them pay higher levies to profit from the people’s resources.
Implement just a transition – retrain fossil fuel sector workers for other jobs in green energy union wages.
Make polluting corporations pay for reversing the environmental damage they’ve caused.
Forestry industry
Promesses de BC Communist
Keep BC resources and jobs in BC.
Use public investment and ownership to create good union jobs while protecting old-growth forests and respecting Indigenous title and consent.
No resource extraction without fair and equal negotiations between workers and Indigenous peoples whose lands have been stolen.
End raw-log exports and expand public, value-added forestry and manufacturing.
Protect mills and resource communities from corporate closures.
Forests and forest conservation
Promesse de BC Communist
Bring natural resources and strategic industries under democratic public control.
Mining and minerals
Promesse de BC Communist
Bring natural resources and strategic industries under public ownership and democratic control.
Power generation
Promesse de BC Communist
Expand public ownership over natural resources and begin a serious transition to renewable energy.
Public transit
Promesses de BC Communist
Free public transit for all.
Create an accessible province-wide bus transit system. Immediately create and enforce transit-only lanes in major cities to speed up transit and encourage more bus ridership.
lace transit under public ownership and democratic control.
Education
Comparer
Childcare
Promesses de BC Communist
Make a genuine long-term commitment to a public universal, affordable, high quality child care system desperately needed by working class families.
Implement an Early Childhood Educator (ECE) Wage Grid paying at least $35 – $45/hr.
Expand school-age spaces and facilities in elementary schools in partnership with public, non-profit and Indigenous groups.
Stabilize and expand existing $10-a-Day programs with long-term budgets based on an equitable funding formula.
Ensure childcare is accessible to shiftworkers.
Indigenous learning
Promesses de BC Communist
Indigenize the BC education curriculum to foster solidarity and collaboration with Indigenous resistance struggles and to promote inclusivity, cooperation, and justice.
Equalize funding for education both on and off reserve
K-12 curriculum
Promesse de BC Communist
End censorship in school libraries.
K-12 funding
Promesses de BC Communist
Increase public education spending by $1000 per student to reach the Canadian average.
End funding and provincial tax breaks for private and religious schools.
K-12 staffing
Promesses de BC Communist
Protect elected school boards from provincial interference.
Reduce class sizes, hire more teachers, education assistants and support staff, and properly fund special education, school maintenance, renovations, and public post-secondary education.
LGBTQ+ students and bullying
Promesse de BC Communist
Protect and fully implement SOGI-123 (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) policies in all school districts, and private and religious schools.
Post-secondary costs and loans
Promesses de BC Communist
Post secondary should be free; educating our youth is one of the best investments a country can make.
Cancel all student debt.
School construction and upgrades
Promesse de BC Communist
Provide the funding and equipment to help protect the health and safety of all students, staff and teachers during infectious disease outbreaks.
Trades & manufacturing
Promesses de BC Communist
Expand the production of value-added wood products and other building materials for public housing construction.
Use public procurement to support domestic production.
Introduce strong plant-closure legislation to protect workers and communities when corporations threaten closures or layoffs.
Health & Healthcare
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Drugs and addiction
Promesse de BC Communist
Demand action by federal and provincial governments to fully provide pharmacare, optical and dental care, and mental health and addiction rehabilitation.
Emergency wait-times
Promesse de BC Communist
Give paramedics regular pay, not “standby pay”.
Family doctors and primary care
Promesses de BC Communist
End the NDP government’s moves to expand for-profit virtual care and long-term care and to subcontract healthcare services.
Ensure every family has access to a family physician.
Gender-affirming care
Promesse de BC Communist
Protect and expand access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans people.
Health staffing
Promesses de BC Communist
Stop the erosion of public healthcare through P3 private contracting.
Prioritize the expansion of hospital beds, reduction of surgery wait times, training of family physicians and nursing staff, and improve conditions in long-term care homes.
Provide incentives for healthcare students from northern and isolated areas to practice their profession in their home communities.
Provide a streamlined avenue for low-income healthcare students to study medicine in Canada, or abroad such as at the world renown ELAM school in Cuba.
Hospitals
Promesse de BC Communist
Properly fund hospitals to end emergency room closures.
Housing & Homelessness
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Home purchases and ownership
Promesses de BC Communist
End housing speculation.
Expropriate units that sit empty for more than two years for use as social housing.
Homeless services
Promesses de BC Communist
Prohibit renovictions, demovictions, and economic/no-fault evictions.
Prevent eviction or foreclosure because of unemployment, strikes, or lockouts.
Stop encampment clearing until permanent housing is available.
Housing prices and supply
Promesses de BC Communist
Build 100,000 units of new renovated social and low-income public housing.
Support expansion of modular housing.
Rental housing
Promesses de BC Communist
Immediately establish vacancy controls which tie rents to the unit.
Legislate to limit rents to 20% of household income.
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
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Agriculture
Promesse de BC Communist
Offer full labour standards protection for domestic, agricultural and migrant workers.
Economic growth
Promesses de BC Communist
Expand union jobs through public investment in social services and infrastructure.
Raise BC minimum wage to $30, fully adjusted to annual inflation rates.
Expand BC shipbuilding and manufacturing to build our ferries, public transit equipment, and renewable-energy infrastructure here in the province.
Forestry industry
Promesses de BC Communist
Keep BC resources and jobs in BC.
Use public investment and ownership to create good union jobs while protecting old-growth forests and respecting Indigenous title and consent.
No resource extraction without fair and equal negotiations between workers and Indigenous peoples whose lands have been stolen.
End raw-log exports and expand public, value-added forestry and manufacturing.
Protect mills and resource communities from corporate closures.
Labour protections
Promesses de BC Communist
Guarantee security for workers affected by layoffs, including 100% recall rights and wage protection.
Protect and expand union rights to picket during labour disputes.
Expand sectoral bargaining to all industries.
Allow the right to strike around political demands and allow sympathy strikes.
Mining and minerals
Promesse de BC Communist
Bring natural resources and strategic industries under public ownership and democratic control.
Trades & manufacturing
Promesses de BC Communist
Expand the production of value-added wood products and other building materials for public housing construction.
Use public procurement to support domestic production.
Introduce strong plant-closure legislation to protect workers and communities when corporations threaten closures or layoffs.
Public Safety, Police, & the Justice System
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Non-policing-based solutions
Promesse de BC Communist
We need a preventative not punitive approach to crime.
Policing
Promesses de BC Communist
Reduce police spending, and remove the provincial authority to order municipalities to increase policing budgets.
Place the police under public oversight and democratic control.
Remove police from schools.
Disband the BC government’s RCMP “Critical Response Unit” (“Community-Industry Response Group” C-IRG), which monitors environmental groups, and Indigenous land defenders and water protectors.
Protests & protest policing
Promesse de BC Communist
End injunctions and charges against environmentalists.
Reconciliation & Indigenous Nations
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Indigenous learning
Promesses de BC Communist
Indigenize the BC education curriculum to foster solidarity and collaboration with Indigenous resistance struggles and to promote inclusivity, cooperation, and justice.
Equalize funding for education both on and off reserve
Society & Government
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Elections and democratic engagement
Promesses de BC Communist
Replace “first past the post” with mixed member proportional representation.
Set MLA salaries at the average wage of a BC worker.
Implement a ward system to elect city councils in major cities.
Libraries & community centres
Promesse de BC Communist
End censorship in school libraries.
Protests & protest policing
Promesse de BC Communist
End injunctions and charges against environmentalists.
Transgender rights and supports
Promesses de BC Communist
rans rights are human rights – take swift legal and political action against those who threaten the 2S/LGBTQ+ community.
Protect trans youth from discrimination and abuse.
Transit & Transportation
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Fuel and vehicle costs
Promesses de BC Communist
Nationalize the energy industry to offer fuel to people at subsidized prices.
Expand public transit and make it free.
Public transit
Promesses de BC Communist
Free public transit for all.
Create an accessible province-wide bus transit system. Immediately create and enforce transit-only lanes in major cities to speed up transit and encourage more bus ridership.
lace transit under public ownership and democratic control.
Biographie
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James is running for the Communist Party because it offers an alternative to capitalism, the root of many of the issues we are faced with today such as poverty, racism, and war.
James Chumsa was born and raised in the Cowichan Valley, the unceded territory of the Quw’utsun nation, to two parents who immigrated to Canada. He first ran as a Communist Party candidate during the 2019 federal election for Nanaimo-Ladysmith while graduating from VIU that same year with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in sociology and minoring in history.
James has been to Cuba twice on the Che Guevara Volunteer Work Brigade run by the Canadian Network on Cuba, most recently in May. There he visited Cuban farms, schools, and community projects; listening to locals and learning about the challenges the island nation faces due to increased US sanctions and how they are able to survive under it.
Currently, James is active with several grassroots organizations in the Cowichan Valley that are involved with countering transphobia, promoting democratic participation, and solidarity with Palestine. He is an activist who tries to support as many struggles that align with his convictions as he can while building community.
James is running for the Communist Party because it offers an alternative to capitalism, the root of many of the issues we are faced with today such as poverty, racism, and war. That alternative is socialism, a system that puts people and the planet before profit.
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