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Budget Estimates: Housing ministry continues to fail the most insecurely housed British Columbians

by adamolsen | May 1, 2024 | 42-5, Blog, Estimates, Governance, Legislature, Video

I continue to be extremely concerned for the most insecurely housed people in British Columbia. While the provincial government has been aggressively making changes to zoning, the volume of non-market housing being constructed and securing the deeply affordable rental...

Denial to Recognition: Unpacking the importance aboriginal title recognition in British Columbia

by adamolsen | Apr 30, 2024 | 42-5, Bills, Blog, Governance, Indigenous, Legislature, Video

For decades the judicial branch has been strongly encouraging the legislative and executive branches of government to address aboriginal title through negotiation, agreement, and legislation. The approach of the provincial government has been to litigate. This has...
MLA Column: Shipbuilding, the coastal economy, and supporting communities

MLA Column: Shipbuilding, the coastal economy, and supporting communities

by adamolsen | Apr 27, 2024 | Blog, Community, Economy, MLA Column

In February 2021, I published a blog post celebrating the British Columbia coastline. It was a response to former Premier John Horgan’s editorial proclaiming that a “made-in-BC shipbuilding strategy” was on its way. There was nobody in a better position to make it...

Budget Estimates: Education and Childcare fails to meet targets and expectations!

by adamolsen | Apr 26, 2024 | 42-5, Blog, Estimates, Governance, Legislature, Video

For the past several years we have heard from the BC NDP government of their investments in education and childcare. At the same time, I have heard from my constituents and education professionals in Saanich North and the Islands the opposite. We are not seeing the...

Environment minister has full control over Conservation Service. No independence, no oversight!

by adamolsen | Apr 25, 2024 | 42-5, Blog, Governance, Legislature, Question Period, Video

The BC NDP don’t want to confront the reality that their environment minister Hon. George Heyman has full control of the BC Conservation Officer Service (BC COS). As it is laid out in s. 106 of the Environmental Management Act, the service is “under the direction of...
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