The BC NDP government has their priorities wrong. While drought grips British Columbia the provincial government is prioritizing electricity and water for the fracking industry. In order for our province to meet CleanBC...
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Firefighters Protection Act: Taking preventative steps to protect firefighters from toxic compounds
British Columbia has been a leader in legislating presumptive clauses in the workers compensation system for firefighters that are diagnosed with certain forms of cancers. Rather than forcing firefighters to prove the...
Regulating Artificial Intelligence in British Columbia elections
With a provincial general election just a few months away there is no discussion, or even a hint of a concern, about the potential impact that artificial intelligence and large language models on our democratic...
Why does the BC NDP allow the fossil fuel industry spread misinformation about emissions?
You have probably seen the fossil fuel lobby advertising campaign with bright green bus ads and highway billboards making specious claims that BC NDP LNG will reduce emissions. It of course is nonsense. However, they...
Is the energy minister going to allow BC Hydro to cut corners on transmission lines?
BC Hydro needs to build massive new transmission lines to provide electricity to the BC NDPs LNG industry in order for them to create the illusion that the fossil fuel industry is “net-zero.” In order to expedite the...
Introducing changes to gendered language in ICE-T Act
Last Fall, while we were debating changes to the North Island-Coast Development Trust Initiative Act I asked why the Minister ignored requests from the Island Coastal Economic Trust to remove gendered language in their...
Bill 7: Social Development and Poverty Reduction Statutes Amendment Act (2024): Entrenching poverty
The BC NDP has long promised that as social democrats they will stand up for the most vulnerable people in the province. They always point to how terrible the former government was as a way to distract from their...
Bill 5: Child, Family, and Community Service Amendment Act (2024): Compliance with Court ruling
Following a Court of Appeal ruling that a section of the Child, Family, and Community Service Act, made in the Fall 2022 intruded to far into personal privacy the Minister has until April to make the change to comply...
Introducing Wildlife Protection Act (2024): Protecting Bear Dens in British Columbia
For the third time I introduced a Wildlife Amendment Act to afford protections for bear dens in British Columbia. Premier David Eby has mandated his Minister of Water, Land, and Natural Resources, Hon. Nathan Cullen, to...
Why is the Minister failing to cover costs of basic grave markers for low-income British Columbians?
While the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction pays the funeral cost of the lowest income British Columbians, they will not pay for a basic grave marker. It makes little sense. For more than a year the...
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