Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 25

Welcome to Day 25 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 25:

• With just a few days until the election, a new poll shows the BC NDP slightly ahead of the BC Conservatives. The Angus Reid Institute says that, after the Leaders’ Debate, 45% of voters said they would vote for the NDP, while 40% said they would vote for the Conservatives.
  
  
• The BC Conservative Party unveiled their fully costed platform, pledging common sense change, tax relief, a focus on recovery and treatment, and to put a stop to the “revolving door justice system”.
  
  
• Rick Glumac, BC NDP candidate for Port Moody - Burquitlam, announced that his party would be committing $75 million to the BC Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund.
  
  
• BC Conservative Leader John Rustad claimed victory after Ottawa declared Samidoun (the group that burned the Canadian flag and chanted “Death to Canada”) a terrorist entity. Rustad had called on the federal government to do exactly this, earlier this month.
  
  
• The BC Green Party touted a Research Co. poll showing that 23% of voters said their impression of party leader Sonia Furstenau had improved since the beginning of the campaign.
  
  
• The Greens made a policy announcement proposing to allow midwives to prescribe abortion medications and to improve transportation to clinics in underserved areas. They also promised to try and enhance safety on post-secondary campuses by increasing funding for sexual violence prevention and reforming the use of non-disclosure agreements.

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