Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 18

Welcome to Day 18 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 18:

• The three major party leaders will take part in a televised debate tonight! BC Conservative Party Leader John Rustad, BC Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau, and BC NDP Leader David Eby will debate from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. The debate will be moderated by the President of the Angus Reid Institute, Shachi Kurl.
  
  
• The BC NDP are holding a telephone town hall with party leader David Eby on Wednesday, October 9th at 5:30 pm. The discussion will focus on actions to address rising costs and support ordinary British Columbians. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions during the call.
  
  
• Rachna Singh, the BC NDP Candidate for Surrey North, and Jagrup Brar, the BC NDP Candidate for Surrey - Fleetwood, promised to establish a role for a Punjabi Language and Pedagogy Professor at Simon Fraser University.
  
  
• John Rustad, Leader of the BC Conservatives, decried the burning of a Canadian flag alongside chants of “Death to Canada” that took place in Vancouver. He said his party would fight for arrest and deportation of those who participate in such activities. He also called on the federal government to designate Samidoun, the group who gathered in Vancouver, as a terrorist organization.
  
  
• The BC Conservative Party made an announcement about recovery, alongside a grieving family who lost their son, Christian, to a drug overdose. The Party’s promises include a focus on prevention, robust drug education programs, cutting wait times for drug treatment, and creating Christian’s Law, an involuntary treatment program.
  
  
• Elections BC is issuing corrected "where to vote" cards to about 2,000 residents after an administrative error assigned them to voting places farther from their homes. Affected voters, such as those in the Ladysmith - Oceanside area, received cards listing voting locations up to 35 kilometers away, prompting Elections BC to clarify the mistake.

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