When Gordon Campbell came into power in 2001, he slashed taxes and regulations even though the province was in a deficit and it attracted business back again after a decade of terrible performance under the NDP. After a few years, the budget was balanced. We intend to do something similar.

Allow the forestry industry to thrive again instead of continually losing sawmills and jobs. Small towns, in particular, rely on forestry to exist.

My concern is with classroom content on sexuality and gender, and with parents’ ability to know what their children are taught. The OneBC platform commits to “Remove SOGI-123 and politicized content from classrooms” and to “Institute a Parental Bill of Rights guaranteeing informed consent and classroom transparency for parents of minor-age students.” SOGI 123 is a resource to be used at the discretion of the teacher and that might be referenced in any grade or class. It teaches that all family structures and sexual orientations are equally valid and that gender identity is a spectrum instead of binary. While parents can opt out of the days when anatomy and sexual reproduction are covered in class for a particular grade, there is no opting out of SOGI 123 because it is intended to be woven throughout the curriculum. Some of the SOGI 123 resource books available in the elementary school libraries are considered by many parents to be pornography and not at all appropriate for that age. Parents have the right to be concerned about what their children are being taught.

This is already done in some ways where if someone needs a simpler surgery that a private clinic might provide already, the province will assess what it costs them to do and offer the private clinic the same amount. The patient then goes to the private clinic, but it is still covered by public health dollars. This could be expanded further where people can have the option to pay for more services on their own or through private health insurance. As it is, people with money are already going to other countries to beat the long wait lines in Canada.

The HPOA act ended the ability of the College of Physicians to regulate itself and gave the Minister of Health the power to appoint the board and do the discipline of wayward physicians. It also gives the Minister of Health the power to make vaccination of doctors mandatory in order to be licensed.

Each increase in the STEP code, especially achieving net zero, gets exponentially more difficult in the building. My sister and I had to basically coat the entire house with a plastic sealer and seal every crack and nail hole in order to get to STEP code 4. We did it ourselves throughout the framing process and it was a crazy amount of work.

Allow the forestry industry to thrive again instead of continually losing sawmills and jobs. Small towns, in particular, rely on forestry to exist.

DRIPA is the 2019 statute that writes the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into provincial law. Section 3 orders the government to make B.C.’s laws consistent with that declaration. Section 7 lets Cabinet sign an agreement that hands a statutory decision to joint control, or that requires a First Nation’s consent before the decision can be made.

The problem with DRIPA is that it creates an open-ended consent toll in order for a company to do a project on Crown land if that Crown land happens to be part of a tribe’s traditional territory. There are no set limits to the payment and no limits to the time that First Nations groups can hold it up as part of the consent process. It creates such uncertainty that no mining or forestry company is going to want to invest in any significant projects in this province until DRIPA is repealed.

Reserves need stronger oversight and transparency in band spending so that members can see where the money is going. Even though the federal government now spends about 7% of the entire budget on the Indigenous, their standard of living has barely improved. If a band member wants to leave a reserve, they can't sell property to an outsider and it is unlikely they can sell to another member, so they are forced to walk away with just their bank savings. The system actually works against the majority of Indigenous.