Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 13

Welcome to Day 13 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 13:

• A new poll showed that the BC Conservatives are slightly ahead of the BC NDP, due in part to women and younger voters switching their support to the party. The Conservatives have 46% support among decided voters, while the NDP has 43% and the Greens have 10%.
  
  
• The BC NDP unveiled their full platform. The plan includes freezing auto insurance premiums, creating more childcare spaces, providing seniors with free, off-peak transit, and increasing funding for police, among other things.
  
  
• BC Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau, made a presentation to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. Afterwards, she took questions from Bridgitte Anderson, President and CEO of the GVBOT.
  
  
• John Rustad, Leader of the BC Conservative Party, accused BC NDP Leader David Eby of spending “millions on crackpipe vending machines at BC hospitals” while ignoring a cockroach infestation. The Vancouver Island Health Authority admitted to there being cockroaches at Saanich Peninsula Hospital, but downplayed the issue.
  
  
• Rustad announced a plan to end ICBC’s monopoly on car insurance, and to bring more competition to BC. The BC Conservatives suggested that, under the NDP’s no-fault insurance system, people who have been seriously injured in car accidents have not been able to receive or fight for the support they need.
  
  
• Rustad also made a flurry of announcements related to his plan for infrastructure and transportation. His party plans to expand the Pattullo Bridge to six lanes, see the Skytrain run to Newton, and build a second bridge over Okanagan Lake by 2032, among several other projects.

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