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- Became the first province in Canada to enshrine the human rights of Indigenous peoples in law, through legislation that establishes the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the foundational framework for reconciliation in B.C.
- Created the Action Plan to implement the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, with specific actions for each government Ministry to take to work towards the goals of Reconciliation.
- Established the Declaration Act Secretariat, a dedicated group to help support and coordinate government bodies as they work to align B.C.’s laws with the UN Declaration.
- Made Reconciliation a cross-government priority by mandating all ministries to fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
- Passed legislation to recognize Haida Nation Aboriginal title throughout Haida Gwaii, and support a transition process to Haida jurisdiction.
- Worked to transform treaty negotiations in B.C., to get results in a shorter timeframe that lead to prosperous, healthy and self-determining Indigenous communities.
- Together with the federal government, recognized Wet’suwet’en rights and title and set out a process to negotiate an agreement on how to implement them, working towards resolving matters of rights and title outstanding for decades.
- Partnered with the First Nations Justice Council to develop an Indigenous Justice Strategy and create Indigenous justice centres throughout B.C., to reduce the over-representation of Indigenous peoples in B.C.’s justice system.
- Implemented a new K-12 curriculum and resources shared with teachers to integrate Indigenous knowledge, perspective, and content into B.C. classrooms, and added a graduation requirement for students to complete Indigenous-focused coursework before achieving their B.C. certificate of graduation.
- Led a ground-breaking government-to-government process to chart a path forward in the Broughton Archipelago, ensuring the safety of wild salmon and economic opportunities for First Nations and local communities.
- Working with Indigenous communities to establish Indigenous courts throughout British Columbia, which offer alternative sentencing options that honour traditional cultural practices, support rehabilitation and acknowledge the impact the person’s actions have had on others.
- Providing complete cell service along the ‘Highway of Tears’ to improve safety for everyone traveling along this corridor and honour the memory of the Indigenous women and girls that have gone missing along this route.
- Addressing systemic racism in B.C.’s health care system through training and education, and through prioritizing the hiring of a health-care workforce that better represents B.C.’s diverse communities.
- Supporting First Nations throughout BC with investigative work at former residential school sites through $12 million in funding. This investment will also cover cultural and wellness supports for communities and members experiencing trauma from residential school site findings.
- Worked alongside First Nations to create the Indigenous Guardians pilot program to collaboratively manage, and share enforcement and compliance responsibilities within Provincial protected areas
- Enshrined the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation into law to mark it as a provincial holiday to honour the residential school survivors, and all those who did not come home from residential schools.
- Re-established a B.C. human rights commission after it was dismantled by the BC Liberals in 2002.
- Passed the Anti-Racism Data Act to ensure Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour have equal access to government programs and services without systemic barriers.
- Launched the Racist Incident Helpline to support those who witness or experience a racist incident, with support available in 240 languages.
- Introduced an X gender option on B.C.-issued identity documents for British Columbians who do not identify as male or female.
- All of B.C.’s schools now have SOGI-inclusive codes of conduct in place, ensuring schools are safe and inclusive for students of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
- Made period products free and available to students in every school district.
- Launched Resilience BC, a provincewide, anti-racism network, which will provide greater focus and leadership in identifying and challenging racism across BC.
- Provided $100 million for new community programs focused on seniors’ health, culture and education as part of redressing the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.
- Introduced legislation to develop accessibility standards in order to identify, remove and prevent barriers in workplaces, government buildings, and the built environment to ensure all British Columbians can participate more fully in their communities.
- Changed hard hat rules to make workplaces more inclusive for people who wear religious head coverings without compromising workplace safety.
- Took action to help cultural and religious organizations and buildings to improve security and repair damage done by vandalism and hate-motivated crimes.
- Took action to help close the gender pay gap by requiring employers to share transparent wage information on job postings.
- Using Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) to ensure gender equality is reflected in all budgets, policies, and programs.
- Raised minimum wage to $17.85 per hour as of June 1, 2025. We’ve passed legislation to ensure that future increases will happen automatically, based on the previous year’s rate of inflation.
- Made it easier for workers to join a union with single-step certification. If 55% of employees sign a union card, the union is automatically certified.
- Introduced 5 days of paid sick leave per year for B.C. workers.
- Eliminated the need for workers to get sick notes for short-term absences, freeing up more time for doctors to see patients and reducing administrative burden in doctors’ offices.
- Taking action to provide fairness, transparency and protection for app-based jobs like ride hailing and food delivery.
- Created a Temporary Foreign Worker Registry to better protect temporary foreign workers against exploitation and abuse.
- Introduced government licensing requirements for foreign worker recruiters.
- Amended the Workers Compensation Act to allow firefighters, wildfire firefighters, fire investigators, and firefighters working for First Nations and other Indigenous organizations easier access to workers’ compensation.
- Ensured good-paying jobs, better training and apprenticeships, and more trades opportunities for Indigenous peoples, women and youth in key public-sector infrastructure projects in B.C. through Community Benefits Agreements.
- Improved BC’s Employment Standards Act to:
- better protect children and youth from dangerous work;
- make it easier for workers to get help when they feel their rights have been violated;
- provide more job protection to people dealing with difficult personal circumstances; and
- ensure people are paid the wages they are owed — and that those that violate the law do not have an unfair advantage.
- Banned big money in provincial, municipal, and recall campaigns, ensuring all people are at the centre of democracy, not just the wealthy and well-connected.
- Updated the Election Act to make it easier for voters in BC to cast their ballot, and help combat disinformation, increase transparency and strengthen third-party advertising rules in the provincial electoral process.
- Allowing Elections BC to use machines to count paper ballots more quickly and accurately will speed up the process for people who vote in person.
- Made British Columbia the most transparent lobbying regime in Canada.
- Provided legislative drafting services to opposition members of the Legislative Assembly so all MLAs can better serve British Columbians.
- Providing more agency and independence to the electoral boundaries commission so they can recommend an electoral map that considers demographic changes, helping ensure every vote is equal.
- Provided flexibility to local governments and made it easier for people to fully participate in their communities by making the temporary tools made available during the pandemic, like virtual meetings and public hearings, permanent.
- Removed unfair tolls on the Port Mann Bridge and Golden Ears Bridge, saving commuters in the lower mainland up to $1,500 a year.
- With the Broadway Subway project, we are bringing SkyTrain access to one of the busiest corridors in Metro Vancouver, reducing congestion while making commuting faster and easier.
- The Surrey Langley SkyTrain project, the first rapid transit expansion south of the Fraser River in over 30 years, will extend the Expo Line from King George Station to Langley City Centre, provide high-quality, low-cost transportation for people in Surrey and Langley.
- Fully funded the Pattullo Bridge replacement, bringing commuters one step closer to a modern, safer crossing.
- Moving forward on a toll-free, eight lane replacement for the Massey Tunnel, improving travel for people along Highway 99 between Richmond and Delta.
- Upgrading and widening Highway 1 through the Fraser Valley.
- Rebuilt the Coquihalla highway to be more stable and climate-resilient after the washouts during the November 2021 storms.
- Put ride-hailing regulations in place that will focus on passenger, driver and company safety.
- Providing $312 million in operating funding to stabilize and expand TransLink services for the next three years, beginning in 2025.
- Launched Move. Commute. Connect.: B.C.’s new strategy for cleaner, more active transportation, which aims to double the percentage of trips taken with active transportation by 2030.
- Changing the Motor Vehicle Act to allow for the launch of mobility technology pilot projects, like e-scooters, electric unicycles or e-skateboards.
- Funded more than 200 Vision Zero projects, upgrading infrastructure to reduce road deaths – totally more than $3 million.
- Making it more convenient to drive electric vehicles by creating one of the largest public charging networks in Canada, with more than 4,800 stations across B.C.
- Supported job creators by cutting the small business tax rate by 20 per cent.
- Launched the Small and Medium Sized Business Recovery Grant program to provide relief to people recovering from the pandemic.
- Took action to tackle shoplifting and property crime in downtown areas with the Community Safety and Targeted Enforcement program.
- Modernizing regulations and permitting process to make B.C. an easier place to do business.
- Expanded the Export Navigator initiative to help more rural business owners in B.C. get their goods to international and interprovincial markets.
- Helping businesses recover from vandalism, and prevent future vandalism, with the Securing Small Business Rebate Program. Rebates can go towards security cameras, gates, repairing broken glass, and removing graffiti.
- Permanently capping the fees that app delivery companies can charge to restaurants.
- Allowing restaurants and bars to purchase liquor at wholesale prices and sell sealed, packaged drinks alongside meals with takeout and delivery orders.
- Launched the Premier’s task force on agriculture and food economy, to help farmers find new markets and ensure B.C.’s food economy continues to grow in the face of U.S. tariff uncertainty.
- Boosted B.C.’s agriculture industry and connected people to products grown and made in B.C. by relaunching Buy BC, and expanded the program to include Grow BC and Feed BC.
- Committed $8.3 million over three years to develop the B.C. Food Hub Network, linking food producers and processors with shared technology, research and development, production equipment, expertise and services.
- Helping B.C. food processors expand their business with funding grants, so people can buy more food that was made here in B.C.
- Supported Indigenous-led projects to strengthen local food security and food sovereignty.
- Supporting tree-fruit growers as they face climate and market-related challenges, with up to $15 million in immediate relief.
- Providing support for vineyards and orchards to plant more resilient varieties as they adapt to a changing climate.
- Launched a Regenerative Agriculture and Agritech Network (RAAN) that will help farmers adopt the latest technology to increase profitability and environmental sustainability, while strengthening the provincial food system.
- Created the Extreme Weather Preparedness for Agriculture program to help farmers reduce their risks from extreme heat, flooding, and wildfires.
- Supporting farmers and ranchers through B.C.’s new AgriStability Enhancement Program to help producers recover from tough times.
- Helped BC farmers recover from the November 2021 floods with $228 million in joint federal-provincial support.
- Invested in doubling the subsidized seats reserved for B.C. students at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, to train more British Columbian veterinarians.
- Created a new meat licensing system that supports farm businesses and makes it easier for B.C. families to buy, serve and enjoy meat raised in their own communities.
- Supported access to affordable farmland for young farmers through the B.C. Land Matching Program.
- Helping farmers to prepare for emergencies like fires, floods, or diseases, with an investment of $20 million for the new Food Security Emergency Planning and Preparedness Fund.
- Increasing the value of each log we take out of the forest, by processing more B.C. logs on the coast and redirecting wood waste to B.C.’s pulp and paper mills, as part of the Coast Forest Sector Revitalization Initiative.
- Launched a regionally driven renewal of the province’s Interior forest industry, aimed at developing a competitive, sustainable future for forest companies, workers and communities.
- Allocated $69 million to fund a new series of measures aimed at supporting British Columbia forest workers impacted by mill closures and shift reductions in several B.C. Interior communities.
- Creating more jobs across BC with over $27 million in project grants to support 38 projects that will help increase the use of wood fibre that otherwise would have been burned as slash.
- Made changes to the Forest Act to make sure that British Columbians are first in line to benefit from our publicly owned forests, increase wood processing at BC saw mills, and ensure that the First Nations, workers and communities have more say in how our forests are managed.
- Ensuring that more B.C. logs are processed in B.C., creating jobs for British Columbians by applying a new, targeted fee-in-lieu of manufacturing for exported logs harvested from a coastal BC Timber Sales license.
- Taking a new, holistic approach to protecting B.C.’s old-growth forests by implementing the recommendations of the old-growth report, deferring 2.1 million hectares of old-growth forest harvesting in ten areas through the province, including Fairy Creek, protecting up to 1,500 exceptionally large, individual trees under the Special Tree Protection Regulation, and transforming B.C.’s forestry industry.
- Helping manufacturing companies to modernize, innovate, and grow with funding for projects that create and maintain well-paying jobs – the BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund. We’ve invested more than $146 million and supported 132 projects and 4,700 jobs in industries such as:
- Forestry manufacturing – Adding value to logs harvested in B.C. with mass timber and other technologies.
- Food and beverages – Building a resilient food economy and creating more jobs from our agricultural sector.
- Solar panels and Clean tech – Supporting the transition to cleaner technologies.
- Electric vehicle components – Leading the way in the growing EV industry.
- Bringing a new lithium-ion battery production facility to Maple Ridge, creating 450 permanent jobs.
- Investing in the expansion of a made-in-BC health sciences company with a new Vancouver facility that will create more than 400 new jobs.
- Partnering with a Vancouver biotech company to create more than 200 jobs while advancing cutting-edge technologies in health care.
- Creating a biomanufacturing training centre at BCIT, building a talent pool for in-demand jobs in this growing field.
- Invested $10 million to establish the Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver – the first in Canada.
- Consulting and engaging with communities to plan the future museum that preserves and celebrates Canadian South Asian histories and cultures.
- Starting an engagement process for a future provincial Filipino Cultural Centre.
- Invested $30 million to enhance tourism infrastructure around the province, including climate adaptations and accessibility upgrades for attractions like Science World.
- Increasing tax credits to create more incentive for film and TV productions to film in BC.
- Supporting thousands of B.C. artists and arts organizations by increasing the budget of the BC Arts Council from $24 million under the previous government in 2016-17 to more than $40 million in 2025-26.
- Preparing to showcase Vancouver and B.C. to the world as we host FIFA World Cup matches in 2026. Spectators are expected to generate more than $ billion in additional visitor spending.
- Revitalizing Chinatown with over $2 million to restore storefronts, historic neon signs, and make lighting upgrades to this neighbourhood.
- Creating a new tax credit for video game and virtual reality (VR) developers to support B.C.’s interactive digital media industry and attract more investment here.
- Protecting the province’s priceless historical artifacts and artwork for future generations with a new collections and research facility for the Royal BC Museum.
- Enhancing the visitor experience at Barkerville Historic Town & Park, near Quesnel.
- Revitalizing Fort Steele Heritage Town near Cranbrook.
- Named B.C.’s official fossil emblem – the elasmosaur, a marine reptile fossil first discovered along the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island.