Election 2026: Campaign Roundup - Day 12

Welcome to Day 12 of our British Columbia 2026 Campaign Roundup!

We're 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 12:

• Former BC Premier Gordon Campbell has warned that the election could be “generational,” arguing that another NDP term under David Eby would leave BC “unrecognizable.” In an opinion piece, Campbell criticized the government’s record on taxation, resource development, housing, health care, infrastructure costs, and interprovincial trade, while also raising concerns about DRIPA and its impact on the province’s resource sector.
  
  
• BC NDP Leader David Eby brought his campaign to the Kootenays, stopping in Nelson to meet residents and attend a Nelson Leafs game. He highlighted affordability, US trade measures and support for local industries, while defending his government’s approach to forestry and old-growth protections.
  
  
• OneBC leader Dallas Brodie says her party is seeking to avoid a split on the political right as it enters the October 24th election. In a CBC interview, Brodie outlined OneBC’s priorities, including balancing the provincial budget, conducting a forensic audit of government spending, repealing SOGI 123 and removing race-based laws and DEI programs from publicly funded institutions.
  
  
• BC Green Leader Emily Lowan has unveiled an AI and technology platform that includes a province-wide moratorium on new AI data centres until a public-interest audit and regulatory framework are established. The Greens are also proposing limits on AI use in K-12 classrooms, an independent AI oversight commission, stronger privacy rules, a ban on AI-powered worker surveillance and legislation against individualized “surveillance pricing.” Lowan said the proposals are intended to address AI’s potential impacts on electricity demand, privacy, workers, and public safety.
  
  
• The BC Greens have also released new policies on food production and what they call the toxic drug crisis. Their food security plan includes restricting non-resident and investment-first ownership of larger Agricultural Land Reserve parcels, expanding farmland ownership data and allowing municipalities to tax productive farmland left idle. On the toxic drug crisis, the Greens are proposing regulated pharmaceutical alternatives, expanded supervised consumption and overdose prevention sites, decriminalizing personal possession, and more mobile and 24-hour overdose prevention services.

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