Actions for you and your family

Healthcare

We’ve hired over 800 new family doctors, and we're training hundreds more at UBC Medical School and the brand new SFU Surrey medical school opening in Surrey. We’ve:

• hired 6,300 new nurses
• licensed over 2,000 new nurses and 900 doctors with international credentials to work in BC.
• building new hospitals — 29 new and expanded hospitals across BC, plus cancer centres and long-term care homes.
• cutting wait times: BC has the second-shortest wait times in Canada for hip and knee replacements and MRIs

John Rustad and his BC Conservatives’ plan will cut $4.1 billion from BC’s healthcare, which means firing doctors and nurses and driving wait times sky-high.

Rustad has a 20-year track record of healthcare cuts. When he was in government, he fired health care workers, and caused a reduction of thousands of MRIs and surgeries people needed.

We can’t afford to let Rustad slash healthcare like he did before.

Community Safety

David Eby and the BC NDP are committed to making sure communities across British Columbia are safe and secure. We’re working to boost public safety and protect our neighbourhoods:

• Hiring over 250 police officers and working with the police to launch new specialized teams to go after guns, gangs, and drugs.
• Leading the push to get the federal government to change federal bail rules to keep repeat offenders off our streets.
• Going after organized crime and money laundering and seizing criminals’ assets and real estate holdings.
• Strengthening services for victims of crime and survivors.

But instead of going after organized crime, John Rustad wants to cut the services that help prevent crime and keep communities safe – like healthcare, homes, and treatment – and leave police to deal with the consequences. While in government, he ignored money laundering that fueled gangs, guns and toxic drugs on our streets. And he cut crime prevention and victims' services funding.

Housing

We’re tackling housing costs by taking on speculation, cutting red tape and breaking down barriers to construction:

• Our Speculation Tax has turned well over 20,000 empty condos into long-term homes.
• We’re bringing in a new flipping tax so families don’t have to compete with house flippers.
• By restricting AirBNBs (not eliminating), we’re turning thousands of units into long-term homes.
• We’re eliminating cumbersome local government red tape, and enabling small multi-unit developments like townhouses, duplexes and triplexes.
• We’re making it easier to build and rent out secondary and basement suites

Housing construction is at record highs, and we can’t stop now. John Rustad and his BC Conservatives are putting our progress at risk – saying they would cancel David Eby’s Housing Action Plan and the hundreds of thousands of affordable new homes for middle income families that are on the way.

Actions to address cost of living

High interest rates and global inflationary pressures have made life difficult for British Columbians. David Eby and BC NDP have taken several actions to address some of the pocket book issues that British Columbians are facing.

• We slashed ICBC rates by $500 a year and then froze them, delivering $530 in rebates back to ICBC customers since 2021
• We cut BC Hydro rates to less than half what Albertans pay
• We eliminated MSP Premiums, saving families at least 1,800/year – one of the largest tax cuts for regular people in BC history!
• We’ve made prescription birth control free, saving nearly 300,000 people about $300 a year
• We more than doubled the BC Family Benefit and provided it to almost 200,000 more families.
• We cut childcare costs in half on average (saving families up to $900/month per child)
• We made public transit free for children aged 12 and under.

All of this has led to some of the lowest unemployment and the strongest wage growth of any province.

The record of John Rustad’s BC Conservatives couldn’t be clearer — they will cost you more. Already Rustad is planning a $500 ICBC rate hike, and several of his Conservative candidates have defended unfair bridge tolls. That's wrong for you and for our economy.