VICTORIA— New Democrat finance spokesperson, Carole James, released the following statement in response to the government’s announcement to drop payday loan rates in 2017: “B.C. has the highest rate of working-age people living in poverty, and while decreasing high payday …
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Foreign buyers’ tax does nothing for affordability, needs to be fixed: Horgan
VICTORIA– Premier Christy Clark’s foreign home-buyers tax has failed to improve housing affordability and needs to be fixed by the amendments proposed by New Democrats during July debates in the legislature, writes NDP leader John Horgan in a letter sent …
B.C. Liberals’ disability bus pass clawback takes effect
VICTORIA— Despite protests across the province, the B.C. Liberals have raised the price of bus passes for people with disabilities from $45 a year to $624 a year. “By raising the cost of bus passes for people with disabilities the …
Christy Clark doesn’t care about making life affordable for British Columbians
VICTORIA – In Premier Christy Clark’s newest campaign ad, modeled after Stephen Harper’s campaign ads, she hypocritically claims that her priority is to “keep taxes down so people have more money in their pockets.” But the only people she cares …
NDP slams ferry affordability as B.C. Ferries AGM gets under way
VANCOUVER – Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberal government has made ferries unaffordable for coastal British Columbians, said New Democrat spokesperson on ferries Claire Trevena. “British Columbians are being squeezed by the Christy Clark government every which way they turn. The B.C. …
Let BC camp: John Horgan fighting to restore affordable access to provincial parks
KELOWNA— As families struggle to afford the high cost of living under the Christy Clark government, rising campground fees in B.C. Parks threaten one of the last options for affordable family vacations, says New Democrat Leader John Horgan. “Christy Clark …
Contradictions pile up as Premier issues denial in Rennie leak allegations
Vancouver – While Bob Rennie can’t get his story straight, Premier Christy Clark is adamantly denying her chief fundraiser had any advanced knowledge of the new foreign buyer tax. “There are now three versions of Mr. Rennie’s story on what …
Housing affordability in Kamloops ignored by Christy Clark government, says New Democrat leader John Horgan
KAMLOOPS – People in Kamloops know it is getting harder to find affordable housing, and New Democrat leader John Horgan says that’s because the Christy Clark government ignored the problem until it spiraled out of control. “Here in Kamloops, people …
Christy Clark puts fundraising chief first, affordability for British Columbians last
Vancouver – New Democrats are demanding answers from Premier Christy Clark about why her chief B.C. Liberal Party fundraiser had details about the new tax on foreign real estate buyers weeks before other British Columbians. “Premier Clark put the interests …
B.C. Liberal foreign buyers tax targets people, not housing affordability
By John Horgan, leader, B.C. New Democrats Our province’s housing crisis is about international money. But Christy Clark still thinks it’s about where people hold citizenship. She thinks that when a citizen of another country buys property in B.C., that’s …