Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 14

Welcome to Day 14 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 14:

• The BC Conservative Party promised to abolish taxes on tips for hospitality workers in restaurants, bars, cafes, and salons.
  
  
• Also announced by the BC Conservatives was a plan to end bag fees at the grocery store, and bring back plastic straws and cutlery. They also committed to removing regulations about what type of shopping bags can be used.
  
  
• Tim Thielmann, BC Conservative Candidate for Victoria - Beacon Hill, released a new campaign ad featuring voters new to voting Conservative. The ad included women from diverse walks of life, explaining why they were planning to cast their ballot for the Conservatives this time.
  
  
• The BC NDP promised to get rid of “no pet” clauses for purpose-built rental apartment buildings.
  
  
• BC NDP Leader David Eby touted his party’s plan to extend job protected leave from 8 days to 27 weeks, intended to give relief to those with major medical conditions. The BC Professional Fire Fighters Association, the union representing firefighters, applauded another of the party’s healthcare promises - to expand presumptive cancer coverage under WCB for firefighters.
  
  
• The BC Green Party held a press conference to lay out their Forest Policy. Party Leader Sonia Furstenau, along with David Evans, Candidate for Juan de Fuca-Malahat, and Cammy Lockwood, Candidate for Cowichan Valley, promised to stop the logging of primary/old growth forests, expand the community forest program, and stop clearcut logging, among other things.
  
  
• Furstenau promised to deliver $10-a-day childcare by April 2026, as well as a universal early childhood education funding model. She criticized the BC NDP’s policies and suggested that the “current rates keep people stuck in poverty”.
  
  
• The BC Conservatives also committed to $10-a-day childcare as part of their policy package to support working families, as well as an expansion of options and 24-hour spaces for shift workers. Gavin Dew, Candidate for Kelowna - Mission, joined party leader John Rustad to announce the policy.
  
  
• Rustad was in Kamloops, at a meet and greet alongside the BC Conservative Candidate for Kamloops - Centre, Peter Milobar.

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