The BC NDP provided $19 million dollars to fund Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls while spending $50 million on a special RCMP unit called the Community-Industry Response Group that has violently arrested...
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Premier Eby ducks his responsibility for Ministry of Children and Family Development
For years, the governing party in British Columbia has nurtured a broken child welfare system. It doesn’t matter if it was the BC Liberals, or now the BC NDP. The BC Green Caucus has been raising issues related to the...
BC NDP continues to blur lines between executive and legislative branch eroding democracy
I rose today in response to a Motion introduced by Government House Leader Ravi Kahlon. Be it resolved that the House recess from 6:30 to 7 p.m. and notwithstanding Standing Orders 2 and 3 thereafter sit until 9 p.m....
Will the Minister of child welfare regulate social workers in her Ministry?
For years, my colleague Sonia Furstenau, MLA (Cowichan Valley) and I have been asking for the Minister of Children and Family Development to require social workers to be members of the College of Social Workers. They...
Desperate politics are costly in addressing runaway climate change
I rose in response to a Motion introduced by the Dan Davies, BC United MLA for Peace River North Be it resolved that this House supports permanently eliminating the provincial fuel tax to ease the pain at the pump and...
Does the province meet the challenge of the infrastructure deficit and increased demand?
With the BC NDP government moving to rezone vast areas of British Columbia from single family to multi-family — three, four, or six times the density — they have to answer the question how local governments will...
Amendments include BC NDPs lacklustre economic development support for Vancouver Island
For the past year I have been advocating for the BC NDP government to support the Island Coastal Economic Trust (ICET) so it can transform into a stable long-term community-led economic development vehicle for Vancouver...
MCFD will protect human rights “wherever possible!”
The B.C. Supreme Court says it is a human right for a mother to be able to continue breastfeeding her newborn child. The Children and Family Development minister Hon. Mitzi Dean says that these human rights will be...
BC NDP continues growing the fossil fuel industry in a climate crisis!
The BC NDP should be applauded for their continued support of the carbon tax, however their energy policy leaves a lot to be desired. Disinformation being spread minimizing the climate impacts of the LNG industry, using...
My comprehensive response to property zoning changes
In this response to Bill 44: Housing Statutes (Residential Development) Amendment Act, 2023, I take space to discuss a variety of issues. This is the accumulation of 15 years in governance and politics. I have been at...
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