Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 11

Welcome to Day 11 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 11:

• The BC Green Party unveiled their full election platform today. Among the platform points are promises to enact an Indigenous Languages Act to preserve and revitalize Indigenous languages, to invest $650 million annually in municipal infrastructure to support new housing, to introduce legislation for a proportional voting system, and to implement all recommendations of the Old Growth Strategic Review. The full platform is available online.
  
  
• BC NDP Leader David Eby said that his party will “protect people and the planet, growing the economy through climate action”. No new details of how this would be done were provided.
  
  
• John Rustad, leader of the BC Conservatives, promised that, if elected, his government would not implement any new taxes without a referendum first.
  
  
• Rustad also made an announcement about his party’s energy plan. The Conservatives emphasized BC’s energy independence, and said they would reverse the BC NDP’s mandates for electrification of vehicles and heating systems, explore the feasibility of nuclear energy, and invest in a diverse mix of reliable power sources.
  
  
• The BC Conservatives plan to launch an investigation into the costs associated with North Vancouver’s wastewater treatment plant if elected. Rustad questioned how “such a monumental waste of public resources could slip past any meaningful scrutiny”. The project is now estimated to cost $3.86 billion.
  
  
• All-candidates forums for the two Kamloops ridings, Kamloops - North Thompson and Kamloops Centre, will be taking place this evening, at 5:00 pm and 6:30 pm respectively. The forums will be live-streamed, and residents can ask questions via an online platform.
  
  
• Around a quarter of the NDP’s former Cabinet Ministers, including long-serving figures like Harry Bains, Bruce Ralston, Katrine Conroy and Rob Fleming, are not running in the election.

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