The Throne Speech promises a new provincewide Poverty Reduction Strategy, with a particular focus on children.
There’s also a plan to increase the number of RCMP officers dedicated to drug enforcement by 30 per cent, accelerate access to MRI’s, hip and knee operations, and fully eliminate MSP for B.C. families.
The government is promising to work to build light rail on southern Vancouver Island and a passenger ferry connection between Vancouver and Nanaimo.
On housing the government is promising to build 50,000 new units over 10 years as part of a new Rent-to-Own program for the middle class.
The government says it will move forward with Site C to transition the economy away from carbon and raise the carbon tax by $5 per tonne per year, starting in 2019, up to a total of $50 per tonne by 2022.
