Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 10

Welcome to Day 10 of our British Columbia 2024 Campaign Roundup!

With the 2024 BC election now finally underway, we'll be bringing you daily updates on all the policy proclamations, platform promises, and political point-scoring from the campaign trail.

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Campaign Roundup - Day 10:

• It’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and the three largest parties, the BC NDP, the BC Conservatives, and the BC Greens, all shared messages to honour the day.
  
  
• BC Conservative Leader John Rustad, along with Candidates A’Aliya Warbus from Stó:lō First Nation and Chris Sankey from the Tsimshian community of Lax Kw’ Alaams First Nation, announced a policy on Reconciliation with BC’s First Nations. The policy includes transferring authority for child welfare and family services to First Nations, developing treatment and recovery programs within First Nations communities, strategically returning land, and opening new opportunities for economic reconciliation.
  
  
• At a rally in Surrey yesterday, BC NDP Leader David Eby announced a plan to cut taxes. The plan will exempt $10,000 of individual income from annual taxes every year, which the NDP says will save the average family $1,000 per year.
  
  
• In Penticton - Summerland, Tracy St. Claire, a former BC United candidate now running as unaffiliated, is being accused by BC Conservative Candidate Amelia Boultbee of misleading voters by reusing campaign signs that still reflect her former party. St. Claire says she followed Elections BC guidelines for repurposing signs, while Boultbee argues that the signage's design continues to associate St. Claire with BC United.
  
  
• Columnist Keith Baldrey believes that two key voter groups may determine the outcome of the provincial election: federal Liberal voters and Green Party supporters. With the BC Conservatives shifting right, some Liberal voters may feel politically homeless, while the absence of Green candidates in several ridings could push former Green voters toward the NDP.
  
  
• In the first week of the election, the drug crisis and housing seemed to emerge as the defining issues. What do you think? Are the candidates talking about the right things? Or are there other topics you’d like to hear more about as they get into the second full week of campaigning?

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