Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 12

Welcome to Day 12 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 12:

• During a CKNW radio debate, NDP Leader David Eby, Conservative Leader John Rustad, and Green Leader Sonia Furstenau clashed over health care, affordability, and energy policy. Eby criticized Rustad for climate science denial, while Rustad accused Eby of deflecting from his government’s failures. Furstenau focused on policy, promoting her party's platform, which includes free transit and doubling income assistance.
  
  
• BC Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau accused the BC NDP of using its first-past-the-post majority to stifle democratic debate. She argued this behaviour highlights the need for electoral reform and proposed a "Citizens' Assembly" to explore new electoral systems. After two electoral cycles with the new system, a referendum would determine whether to adopt the change permanently.
  
  
• Fort St. John City Councillor Trevor Bolin (and former leader of the BC Conservatives) cheered the BC Conservatives’ plan for energy independence, suggesting that it will benefit everyone in the province.
  
  
• The BC Conservatives released a new ad, criticizing the BC NDP for their policy of decriminalizing hard drugs, calling the party “radical” and suggesting that their policies have made communities less safe and have led to skyrocketing deaths from addiction.
  
  
• Han Lee, BC Conservative Candidate for Burnaby South - Metrotown, also released a campaign ad of his own, focused on the safety of public transit and how busy the ExpoLine is at peak hours.
  
  
• The advocacy arm of the Canadian Cancer Society applauded the BC Green Party for committing to removing sales of tobacco from BC pharmacies and eliminating all advertising of vaping and nicotine products. They also applauded the BC NDP for committing to extend job-protected illness leave to 27 weeks to match federal standards.

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