Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 7

Welcome to Day 7 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 7:

• George Anderson, BC NDP Candidate for Nanaimo - Lantzville, held a town hall alongside party leader David Eby. Healthcare was a topic of discussion and a promise was made to build a new patient tower at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital should the party be reelected.
  
  
• The BC NDP also made a campaign stop at the LiUNA and Teamsters training facility in Chilliwack, where leader David Eby announced a plan to invest $150 million into SkilledTradesBC. Eby said that would double the available trade apprenticeship seats.
  
  
• The BC Conservatives shared a video provided to them by a parent in Port Alberni, showing their children enjoying ice cream in a shop, while someone uses drugs outside. The party turned it into a social media ad, and Gavin Dew, Conservative Candidate for Kelowna-Mission, suggested that parents “shouldn’t be forced to explain crack while going for ice cream”.
  
  
• Conservative Party Leader John Rustad has promised a zero-tolerance policy on open drug use. He also promised to eliminate the province’s “free drug and paraphernalia programs”.
  
  
• Rustad criticized the NDP’s plan to have the Province finance 40% of the home's cost for eligible first-time homebuyers. He said there’s “nothing quite like sharing the dream of homeownership with big daddy government”. Rustad has proposed his own plan to help people with housing affordability, promising an exemption of $3,000 per month of housing interest costs from provincial income taxes.
  
  
• BC NDP Leader David Eby made another housing announcement. In Cumberland, at a modular home construction company, he promised the introduction of province-wide standards and pre-approved designs for pre-manufactured homes. He suggested it would fast-track the growth of the province’s pre-manufactured home industry.
  
  
• The BC Greens continue to name candidates ahead of nomination day. Spencer Leong Cowie was nominated for Burnaby Centre, Bryan White for Burnaby North, and Kylee Williams for Maple Ridge East. Nominations close at 1:00 pm tomorrow, and the candidate list will be final.

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