Issues

Bold, sweeping climate action is an opportunity to build a stronger B.C. economy. Our Good Green Jobs program would create over 138,000 jobs while building more housing, expanding transit, and decarbonizing our province.

• Develop a Just Transition Fund created from revenue from forestry, mining, and oil and gas industries.
• Increase public ownership, worker ownership, and First Nation ownership to ensure responsible resource development with advanced skill training programs focused on addressing long-term labour market adjustments to meet both economic and climate needs.
• Invest in apprenticeships via a 1% training levy on payroll tax for companies that do not train employees at a level equal to 1% of their payroll.
• Build up green industries in communities already centred on extractive industry to ensure good, green jobs don’t come at the cost of leaving home.
  • Support the retrofitting of LNG terminals to be used to generate geothermal heat, rather than the costly and massively polluting process of fracking gas. 
  • Support our mining communities with restoration, as restoration of mined areas requires many of the same skills and equipment as mining itself.
  • Provide mobility allowances for those who want them.
• To protect against the problems of institutionalized retirement programs, commit to a collective approach where the government works proactively (rather than waiting for closures) with unions and industry to develop long-term transition plans.
  • Pressure the federal government to improve the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to ensure that, should they choose to, workers can retire earlier and with dignity, with no significant loss of benefits.
• Ensure pensions are supporting workers throughout the Just Transition.
  • Pressure the federal government to guarantee income security through the protection of income from one to four years, with continued qualification for Employment Insurance (EI) and CPP where employment income is less than in the lost job or where there is no alternative work. 
  • Require pension funds to expressly identify and manage climate-related risks and opportunities in their investment strategies. 
  • Require pension funds to have a net-zero transition plan. 
  • Amend section 51 of the Pension Benefits Standards Regulation pursuant to the BC Pension Benefits Standard Act to require that the pension plan administrator’s written statement of investment policies and procedures (SIPP) include a statement on how its policies and procedures address climate-related financial risks, including the plan’s climate resilience (mitigation and adaptation) and how it weighs the risks and benefits in decisions with respect to its portfolio of investments and loans in light of the impending transition to a net-zero emissions economy.
  • Increase transparency and accountability mechanisms to ensure portfolio firms align with climate goals, improve labour practices and align with UN Principles for Responsible Investment.

B.C. public investment has yet to recover from the austerity of the B.C. Liberal years, while the B.C. NDP is content to use economic threats from the U.S. as an excuse to cut public funding. Our agenda proposes bold solutions to invest in the working class and stabilize our economy.

• Non-compete agreements have stifled competition for too long. We will ban non-competes to allow British Columbians to start businesses and find work when and where they want.
• Put forward Right to Repair legislation, which would support workers, business owners, and industries at large by requiring manufacturers to provide consumers and repair shops access to any parts, software, tools and diagnostic equipment needed to repair their products.
• End the shuttering of businesses due to unfair leasing, and require renewals of commercial leases to be equal to market rate.
  • Ban triple-net leases that pass property taxes on to tenants.
• Streamline and integrate permitting and licensing systems across British Columbia.
• Address the failures of the B.C. NDP’s Connecting British Columbia plan and unlock pathways to business development in First Nations and rural areas through launching a bold program to adapt government-run buildings (such as Service B.C. locations and other facilities) to house broadband internet servers and extend affordable high-speed internet service across B.C.
• Ensure local contractors and resources benefit first in public procurement.
  • Expand InBC Investment opportunities and ensure equitable access and rural investment. 
  • Expand the community grants program and limit the eligibility of businesses headquartered outside British Columbia.
• Support the growth of credit unions and community loan funds.
• Support the growth of the Solidarity Economy by explicitly recognizing and supporting solidarity economy organizations.
• Increase access to resources and grants which enable the opening of democratic worker-owned businesses (worker co-operatives).
  • Set a lower corporate income tax rate for democratic       employee-owned firms.

• Even though B.C. has a high number of doctors per capita, the prevailing Fee-for-Service payment system does not incentivize primary care doctors to take on full caseloads and forces them to become small-business owners. This means that many doctors work part-time or choose to leave public and primary care entirely, while B.C. families are left in the lurch. 
• Develop a transparent, comprehensive primary care operating and capital funding model – drawing on the Ontario model – that supports the development of non-profit primary care organizations (including Community Health Centres), with payment adjusted for patient complexity. This system will offer stability to healthcare providers, offer all British Columbians long-term access to a doctor and a team of healthcare providers, and will allow our primary health system to better meet the needs of people with chronic and complex health needs, so they are less likely to end up in the emergency room. 
• Expand Community Health Centres (CHC) and partner with First Nations Health Centres, prioritizing under-served and rural communities.
  • CHC’s provide wrap-around, team-based care to patients: patients can access a range of health and social services providers in the same place, who are working together to provide comprehensive care and address complex health needs.
  • Develop a standardized, global funding model to simplify budgets and expand CHC access.
• Establish minimum standards for all primary care delivery models with regular public reporting and a provincially coordinated quality improvement hub to achieve and exceed these minimum standards (e.g. access, comprehensiveness, data-enabled, chronic disease management).
• Free post-secondary tuition to support certification of more doctors, nurses, and healthcare practitioners.
• Develop a fast-track program to allow students to enter medical school after 2 years of undergraduate study, and a laddering program for healthcare workers to more quickly become certified as nurse practitioners, doctors, and physician assistants.
• Improve the salaries, benefits, working conditions, and mental health supports for nurse practitioners, LPNs, care aides, and other front-line healthcare workers. Work with community social services unions to bring community social services workers’ conditions up to parity with their health care colleagues, and increase access to unionization and sectoral bargaining.
• Set aside 2% of all new public housing for care workers.
• Implement Nursing Retention Toolkit: Improving the working lives of nurses in Canada.
• Perform an academic-commissioned review of health authority leadership and management practices, with a focus on addressing toxic workplace cultures, that are driving health care workers from the public system.
• Make it easier for doctors, nurses and other key health practitioners in other provinces and countries to get certified in B.C. through streamlining the retraining process and increasing the number of available residencies. 

• Create a three-year plan, like Quebec, to phase out the costly use of for-profit staffing agencies that are depleting health authority budgets and driving staff out of the public system.
• Develop and implement a rural and remote healthcare strategy to improve retention of workers and expand hospital/ER hours and services to address the significant gaps in rural healthcare access across B.C. This includes setting up healthcare centres and training staff to deliver virtual/hybrid care. 
• Work with regional health authorities to ensure an end to ER closures.
• Increase hospital capacity by fully stocking diagnostic tools, mobility aids, and beds to improve patient experience, working conditions for staff, and to reduce wait times. 
• Invest in public and non-profit substance use treatment centres to eliminate wait times and provide wrap-around care to people dealing with addiction. As was the case prior to the B.C. Liberals and B.C. NDP, require minimum standards through health authority licensing of all substance use and mental health treatment facilities and phase out publicly funded for-profit facilities. 
• Phase out public funding for for-profit care homes and invest in public and non-profit long-term care homes, with improved staff salaries and working conditions, so that our elders can access high-quality, affordable care. 
• Move away from private telehealth providers (eg: TELUS) in favor of public telehealth solutions (e.g.: expanding 8-1-1 Healthlink).
• Create a task force to fix and improve CareConnect to offload administrative burden from healthcare workers.
• Phase out contracts with MediVan and use funds to increase service and capacity of handyDART to provide patients with consistent non-emergency medical transportation. 
• Pass legislation that prohibits the commercialization of patient data sold from privately owned electronic medical records to corporations and ensures that patients own their own data. 
• End the health information management chaos: pass legislation so that publicly funded health information technology and EMRs must be interoperable with other publicly funded platforms in order to reduce waste and corporate profiteering.

• Fund universal dental and pharmacare
  • Integrate dental care into the CHC model to ensure universal access.
  • Integrate pharmacare into the public system as a universal, single-payer program.
• End the three-month wait for health care for new immigrants and migrants to B.C.
• Address the upstream determinants of health by tackling issues such as wealth and economic inequality, lack of affordable housing, and systemic racism.
• Adopt standardized central intake and team-based referral models across surgical specialties to reduce wait times and provide patients with timely access to surgical care and non-surgical supports. Where appropriate, use providers like advanced practice physiotherapists who can rapidly triage surgical and non-surgical candidates.
• Adopt standardized waitlist management across surgical specialties in addition to diagnostics that moves waitlists from individual surgeons’ offices and imaging facilities to hospitals and health authorities to eliminate administrative waste and inefficiencies.

• Ensure all British Columbians have access to regular and preventative mental healthcare services through Community Health Centres and non-profit primary care organizations under the Medical Services Plan (MSP), including, at minimum, monthly visits to a mental health professional. 
• Perform a comprehensive review of the Mental Health Act to ensure that mental health legislation is grounded in evidence, human rights, and lived experience.
• Reallocate funds from school liaison police officers towards full-time school counselors in every school.
• Require that mental healthcare be provided by certified professionals to prevent outsourcing to AI chatbots.
• Integrate mental health as the fourth option in 911 emergency services to accommodate mental health crises that do not align with the traditional ambulance, fire or police options.

• Reverse the shift to the witness consumption model which pushes people further into a dangerous, unregulated illicit drug market. 
• Increase access to regulated, prescription and non-prescription alternatives, through a community compassion club model.
• Reduce over-reliance on involuntary care to ensure it is only imposed as a last resort; self-determination is essential to wellness. Instead, reallocate resources to preventative care and a range of voluntary care options that are accessible, well-resourced, and cater to the diverse needs of individuals. 
• Significantly expand access to transitional and public housing projects, modelled after Duncan Village and Caledonia Place, without sobriety or treatment adherence requirements. Ensure supportive housing provides wrap-around healthcare and applies harm reduction principles. 
• Invest in community liaison pilots to build relationships between homeless communities and care workers.
• End the stigma against people who use drugs with a robust, community-based public education program. 
• Expand substance drug-checking programs to ensure their longevity and access in under-served areas. 
• Support harm reduction at the community-level by investing and partnering with drug user groups, community organizations, and paramedic groups.

• Establish a public Gender Health Clinic on Vancouver Island, with plans to expand to Metro Vancouver and Northern B.C., following the informed consent model.
• Expand MSP coverage to include all forms of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) without needing to apply for special authority.
• Ensure the protection of trans people fleeing from anti-trans legislation domestically.
• Work with the Ministry of Health and Transcare B.C. to develop a plan to attract surgeons who specialize in gender affirming care to B.C.

• Invest in First Nations Health Centres across B.C., which provide wrap-around, team-based, culturally safe care. 
• Through a cultural humility lens, ensure all healthcare laws and policies are in full alignment with DRIPA. Support the implementation of the First Nations Health Council’s 10 Year Strategy on the Social Determinants of Health to advance First Nations’ health governance. 
• Applying a Learning Health System approach, collaborate with regional health authorities and the First Nations Health Authority to provide First Nations with more decision-making over budgets, programs, and priorities to meet the needs of their communities. The Fraser Salish 5-Year Regional Health and Wellness Plan provides an example of this in practice through its Fraser Partnership Accord, which establishes formal governance structures that enable joint and shared decision-making in health services across planning, funding, delivery, and evaluation.
• Address systemic racism and discrimination towards Indigenous peoples in the healthcare system by implementing the 24 recommendations from the In Plain Sight report, with annual reviews reporting on progress.
• Ensure high standards of cultural safety and humility training across the healthcare system, and improve patient complaint reporting processes.
• Ensure “Indigenous Patient Navigator” positions are well-resourced and accessible at every hospital and health authority to help Indigenous patients navigate the healthcare system. 
• Develop trauma-informed, culturally-safe education for healthcare practitioners. Measure its effectiveness through transparent and ongoing reporting of Indigenous-specific racism in the healthcare system and metrics towards true health equity.

• Fund high-quality, affordable, public and non-market housing and stop rent hikes to ensure that existing housing is affordable.
• B.C. has the lowest property taxes of any province. We must take on those profiting from the housing crisis by taxing landowners, not individual properties.
  • Increase annual top-end progressive property taxes on the total holdings of a given owner (rather than the current system, which taxes only individual properties).
  • End automatic cuts to base provincial property tax rates
  • Add a new property tax bracket for property holdings above $7 million, a change affecting only the top 3.7% wealthiest of the population. 
  • These policy additions would exempt purpose-built rental buildings.
• Increase housing supply while safeguarding renters in already-affordable housing.
  • End exclusionary zoning and work with municipalities on regulatory changes to allow construction of missing middle and high density housing.
    • Guarantee the right to build a small apartment building (4-6 stories, approximately 12 units) everywhere there is currently the right to build a detached home. 
  • Support mixed-use zoning to encourage human-scale development and walkable urban villages.
  • Double the vacancy tax for foreign and domestic owners, and begin applying it to undeveloped land in urban and residential areas.
  • Work with municipalities to fund infrastructure upgrades to accommodate higher density.
  • Grant current tenants the Right of First Refusal to protect tenants in already-affordable housing. If tenants decline to use this right, then non-profits will gain the Right of First Refusal in their stead.
    • Introduce loan programs for tenants who wish to use the Right of First Refusal to convert their housing into co-ops.
• Hold landlords accountable and give tenants the tools to self-advocate.
  • Provide tenants the right to collectively bargain through tenants unions.
  • Mandate that all rental units contain at least one space that can always reach a liveable temperature range with acceptable ventilation and air quality.
  • Ban algorithmic and collaborative rent-setting between real estate investment trusts (REITs) and corporate landlords.
  • Require landlords go through the Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) and hearing process to seek eviction.
  • Require more transparency for tenants about deliberations and processes from the RTB.
  • Regulate additional rent increases for capital expenditures (ARICEs) to ensure that rent increases are only present until the capital expenditure is paid off, not present indefinitely.
• Green retrofits for B.C. homes
  • Starting in 2026, require all new housing builds to use clean electricity for primary heating and cooling systems.
  • Create a Crown Corporation to mobilize the workforce to retrofit all existing housing and eliminate fossil fuel heating by 2035, and to build new, affordable, zero-emissions housing projects.
  • Establish a Universal Heat Pump Program, overseen by a new BC Hydro division that produces, distributes, and installs heat pumps in homes across B.C.

• Launch a publicly owned grocery pilot, focused on supporting B.C. agriculture and food sovereignty by selling fresh B.C. produce and staple products at affordable prices from small community stores, beginning in B.C.’s food deserts. 
• Create a universal food program in public schools to address food insecurity among B.C. children. This program would include breakfast and lunch, with new unionized jobs in schools to run the program. 
• Bring our food wholesaling and distribution system under public control. Use public wholesaling and distribution to undercut grocery billionaires, develop capacity to scale publicly-owned grocery stores, supply public institutions (e.g. schools), support the creation of public cafeterias, and build resilience throughout the food supply chain with a mandate of 50% locally-produced goods.
• Create a provincial Anti-Monopoly Board to work with the federal government in enforcing the Competition Act to protect grocery co-operatives and smaller grocery stores from large monopolies.
• Create an aggressive windfall profit tax on grocery monopolies.
• Establish a government watchdog group to monitor grocery prices to enact additional excess profit taxes as prices rise, and, if appropriate, cap staple grocery prices on essentials hit hard by inflation.
• Support municipalities and local communities in developing emergency plans for food reserves and food security during supply-chain disruption.

• Make transit free province-wide by 2035.
• Double the transit service in local systems over 10 years. More regular and reliable service will decrease travel times and increase ridership in both urban areas and underserved rural communities.
• Connect communities across BC with a new express bus service.
  • Now that Greyhound has left BC, we need a province-wide transit system that fills the gap of inter-community transit to improve mobility for people in small towns, rural areas, and remote First Nations communities to ensure that everyone has an affordable, public option to get health care, visit family, or travel the province.
• Phase out the contracting of transit operations to for-profit companies across BC.
• Increase wages and improve working conditions to address the critical labour shortage of transit operators and mechanics.
• Ensure pay-parity for all transit operators across conventional and custom service.
• Eliminate fares for handyDART services and integrate them fully into the public transportation system, ending the sub-contracting of handyDART to private companies.
• Work with municipalities to incentivize active transportation plans that promote public transit, walkability, and urban forestry.
• Reallocate infrastructure funds from highway expansion to transit and active transportation projects. 
• Re-discover our historic rail corridors.
  • Continue diverting traffic away from roads by expanding the West Coast Express from weekday commuter service to regular daily service and extending the service area to Abbotsford.
  • Repurpose the historic Interurban corridor from Langley to Chilliwack via Abbotsford to reshape development patterns and transportation patterns region-wide to allow for denser housing, shops, and services to be concentrated around new transit hubs.
  • Restore rail service to Prince George via Squamish and Whistler to re-establish our historical connection to the heart of BC’s Interior and invest in Prince George as a transit hub.
  • Restore the Vancouver Island Rail Corridor for both passenger and freight services.
  • In every instance, partner with First Nations communities along rail lines to ensure equitable development benefits and ownership/operating opportunities.
• Ensure ferries are recognized as an essential form of transit, and invested in appropriately.

• The B.C. NDP has stalled in their commitment to universal $10/day childcare, and affordable childcare remains inaccessible to 90% of B.C. families, according to the Coalition of Childcare Advocates of B.C. As an immediate action, expand public childcare centres to make $10/day childcare accessible for all families, and push for free, universal childcare by 2030. 
• Increase early childhood educator (ECE) wages to $30-40 per hour, plus extended health benefits and a pension plan. Push for the unionization of ECEs on a sector-wide basis. 
• Develop a universal ECE funding model to simplify how childcare centres are certified and receive funding. This will reduce administrative burdens and make it easier to create new childcare spaces, hire qualified staff, and provide high-quality care.

• Ensure community wellness through robust social assistance.
  • Increase social assistance and disability assistance actual rates to the poverty line, an increase of at least 40%, and index rates to inflation.
  • Reduce barriers to applying, accessing, and reporting related to social and disability assistance.
  • End the clawbacks of income from people who work and receive social or disability assistance.
  • End the spousal cap for social and disability assistance.
  • Allow income assistance recipients to receive full assistance benefits while attending post-secondary institutions.
  • Ensure programs to support young adults, like Strengthening Abilities and Journey of Empowerment (SAJE), are resourced to match public promises, including rental supplements, mental health support, education and employment pathways.
  • Advance a province-wide Guaranteed Livable Basic Income to provide income security for all.
• Work towards an end to the homelessness crisis.
  • Invest in prevention by improving access to programs for people at risk of becoming homeless, including income assistance, housing outreach programs, mental health services and addictions treatment, employment training, and meal programs.
  • Strengthen preventative outreach to support the transition from corrections facilities, foster care, or treatment institutions to the community.
  • Increase emergency assistance initiatives such as the Homelessness Prevention Fund to provide rent or utility assistance to housed individuals or families.
  • Rapidly expand transitional and public housing projects, modelled after Duncan Village and Caledonia Place, while sufficient permanent non-profit and supportive housing is constructed. 
  • Remove sobriety or treatment adherence requirements and ensure supportive housing provides wrap-around healthcare and applies harm reduction principles. 
  • Increase funding and support to food banks and public cafeterias to provide nutritious and, where possible, locally sourced, meal and food programs.
  • Invest in and expand physical supports (bedding, clothing, etc.) and community supports (social events, emotional outreach, etc.) to sustain social integration and emotional wellness through partnership with local non-profits.

• Declare an immediate moratorium on new fossil fuel extraction permits, including new coal extraction projects, fracking wells, oil and gas projects, liquified natural gas (LNG) facilities, and fossil fuel-derived hydrogen production.
• Legislate binding greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets of 60% by 2030, and 100% by 2040 (below 2007 levels).
  • Accelerate B.C.’s target of near-zero methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by eliminating venting, flaring, and compressor emissions, and committing to reviewing methane regulations by the end of 2027.
  • Empower B.C.’s Climate Action Secretariat to oversee this reduction and ensure the government and industries are held accountable.
• Implement a regular provincial carbon-budgeting process to develop concrete schedules and measurable outcomes for reduction of GHG emissions.
  • Carbon budgeting will be modeled after fiscal planning: a target will be stated at the start of the year, along with actions on how it will be achieved (including investments in green infrastructure and jobs), followed by routine monitoring and reporting. The carbon budget will set out rolling five-year plans and forecasts similar to the annual B.C. Budget process.
  • Establish a committee to provide independent oversight, recommendations on mitigation measures, conduct research, analyze government reporting, and develop a carbon-accounting system to establish rules for international transfers and reallocating budget from year to year.
  • The carbon budget will apply to GHG emissions released in B.C., as well as carbon extracted (such as coal mined in BC but combusted elsewhere).
  • The carbon budget will account for the carbon emissions released due to wildfires and the carbon storage of healthy, biodiverse forests.
• Stop the MAGA-backed PRGT pipeline, Ksi Lisms, and future LNG projects.
  • Put PRGT through a modern, Indigenous-led Environmental Assessment.
  • Phase out all gas production in B.C. by 2040.
  • Prohibit any new LNG pipelines.
• Ban data centers in B.C. from burning fossil fuels for power.
  • Establish binding targets requiring data centres to use 100% renewable energy. 
  • Establish regulations wherein data centres disclose GHG emissions, energy consumption, water usage, waste generation, and renewable energy use.
  • Set power and water efficiency mandates for data centres.
  • Implement policies to ensure that infrastructure costs associated with accommodating AI data centres do not disproportionately shift to ordinary ratepayers.
  • Amend the Water Sustainability Act to ensure that drinking water and agricultural needs are prioritized over water use for AI data centres and other industry uses.
• Decarbonize homes and buildings.
  • Starting in 2026, require all new builds to use clean electricity for primary heating and cooling systems.
  • Create a Crown Corporation to mobilize the workforce to retrofit all existing buildings and eliminate fossil fuel heating by 2035, and to build new affordable zero-emissions buildings.
  • Establish a Universal Heat Pump Program, overseen by a new B.C. Hydro division that produces, distributes, and installs heat pumps in homes across B.C.

• End the multi-billion dollar bail-outs and phase out fossil fuel subsidies and financial incentives over 5 years. This includes capital cost recovery, the provision of new electricity supply, subsidized electricity rates and priority access for LNG plants.
• Lobby the federal government to amend the Criminal Code of Canada to add ecocide as a serious crime, in alignment with the 2021 ecocide definition proposed by an expert panel to the International Criminal Court. 
• Develop an Excess Pollution Fee to incentivize a reduction in GHG emissions.
  • Implement a levy on GHGs released from corporations at $95 per tonne, with a planned increase of $15 per year. This levy will not apply to necessary fuel burned in the agricultural sector.
  • Funds raised from this levy will go directly into public programs including, but not limited to, free transit, affordable housing, and public grocery stores. 
  • Subsidies will be offered to any project working towards lower GHG outputs.  
  • Apply a surcharge for any leakage from pipelines and rigs in the oil and gas sector at five times the levy per tonne leaked. 
  • Reduce and eventually end the ability to use credits/offsets for corporations paying into B.C.’s output-based pricing system.
  • Offer carbon neutral businesses tax credits based on how many years they’ve been operating as carbon neutral. 
• Create a public commission to review all resource royalties from corporations extracting our fossil fuels, water, minerals, and lumber, to ensure the British Columbians are getting their fair share from extractive corporations.
  • Require extractive industries to provide insurance for post-resource extraction remediation and clean-up, should there be environmental damage.
• Ban all advertisements from oil and gas companies in the province.
• Environmental Assessments are an important mechanism for protecting the lands, waters, and resources in B.C. Fully implement the Environmental Assessment Act, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDIRP), and legislate a Blueprint for Revitalizing Environmental Assessment in British Columbia.
  • Implement regulations to ensure that the evidence in the environmental assessment process is balanced, objective, and thoroughly peer-reviewed.
  • Increase sustainable funding for participants in environmental assessments.
  • Develop strategic and regional assessment capacity to better address cumulative effects and land use planning.
  • Integrate a consent-based process, including a process to reconcile competing claims.  
• The Big 5 Banks (RBC, TD Bank, Scotiabank, BMO, and CIBC) have hundreds of billions of Canadian dollars tied up in fossil fuel investments. To take on this oligopoly, we must offer an alternative.
  • Form a national coalition with other provincial parties to push the federal government for postal banking legislation to ensure that everyone has access to banking that doesn’t support corporate monopolies or climate change.

• Work with First Nations leaders to prevent potential violations of rights through Bill 14 and 15:
  • Amend Bill 14 and 15 to require documented Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) from affected rights-holders before a project can be designated.
  • Restore environmental assessment coverage through mandated Indigenous-led assessments.
  • Establish statutory co-decisionmaking bodies with equal First Nation representation.
  • Require regional, Indigenous-led cumulative effects thresholds.
  • Create a public registry for Bill 14 and 15 designations.
  • Establish a dedicated FPIC capacity fund to support First Nation technical teams, legal work, community engagement and Indigenous Guardian programs during project reviews and monitoring.
• Strengthen our renewable energy (solar, wind, ocean energy, run-of-river hydro) capacity through Indigenous leadership.
  • Mandate minimum parity ownership and FPIC on new projects with pathways to majority Indigenous ownership.
  • Ensure that the First Nations Equity Financing Framework includes loan guarantees, grants, and revenue-backed bonds so the risk is not disproportionately borne by First Nations.
  • Invest in expanding energy storage capacity and improving electricity distribution to support a more efficient and resilient renewable energy grid.
  • Support the creation of a First Nations Power Authority. 
  • Reinstate BC Hydro’s Standing Offer Program to provide independent power producers and Indigenous communities an opportunity to develop small-scale renewable energy projects.
  • Integrate renewable targets, projects, and procurement timetables with the provincial carbon-budgeting process. 
  • Establish a governing body of First Nation rightsholders and representatives from BC Hydro, B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC), and the BC Government, with Nation-majority, to redefine BC Hydro and BCUC’s mandates, engage in energy planning, and determine the terms of future calls for power through consensus.

• No more clean power for dirty fuel.
  • Prevent fossil fuel companies from using our public electricity grid to power their operations. “Electrifying” LNG would break our grid’s capacity, requiring the clean power equivalent of 8.4 Site C dams, without reducing any global GHGs. We must use our hydropower to scale green industries, like low-carbon steel refabrication. 
  • Implement a real-time public dashboard at BC Hydro, showing data on electricity production, usage, imports, and exports for British Columbia.
  • Support the retrofitting of LNG terminals to be used to generate geothermal heat, rather than the costly and massively polluting process of fracking gas. 
  • Direct the BCUC, BC Hydro and FortisBC to undergo new integrated resource planning to prepare for the broad electrification of buildings, transportation and other sectors, and to better plan for a significant build-out of new low-cost renewable electricity and clean electricity solutions.
  • Direct the BCUC to include climate and environmental impacts and emissions reductions in its evaluation and approval process for new projects, in addition to safety, affordability, and reliability.
• Invest in community-scale renewable energy.
  • Invest $20 million annually in small-scale distributed solar projects, with a goal of solar accounting for 15% of electricity generation by 2035, while prioritizing projects that are Indigenous-led and accessible to mid-low income families.
  • Expand the Community Net Metering program to allow British Columbians to own a share of community-scale solar energy production, receiving credits on their electricity bills for the energy produced.
  • Expand funding for the Community Energy Diesel Reduction program to help Indigenous communities transition off diesel and connect to clean power and storage solutions.
• Support the electrification of transportation.
  • Continue the zero-emission vehicle mandate with subsidies for low-income households.
  • Expand the EV charging infrastructure across B.C. to support the growing number of electric vehicles and facilitate their use in rural and urban areas.
  • Increase electric micro-mobility subsidies and develop province-wide sharing programs.

• Prioritize forest health and biodiversity
  • Immediately establish conservation of ecosystem health and biodiversity of B.C.’s forests as an overarching priority, with timber supply being one benefit.
  • Establish a Chief Ecologist as a counterpart to the Chief Forester to ensure multiple values are adequately incorporated into timber supply analysis and other decision-making
  • Work with First Nations to determine zoning for forests and safeguards according to each zone.
  • Reduce the Annual Allowable Cut to ecologically and economically sustainable levels.
  • Stop clearcut industrial logging and adopt logging practices that emulate natural disturbance regimes, such as selective logging, commercial thinning, and longer stand rotations.
  • Ban the use of glyphosate and other chemical herbicides.
  • Improve silviculture practices. 
  • Amend the Private Managed Forest Land Act to ensure basic ecological and cultural protections on private land.
• Protect jobs instead of profits
  • B.C. harvests our forests with some of the fewest job returns of any province, roughly 0.83 jobs per thousand m³ (or the number of jobs generated by harvesting roughly 1,000 telephone poles). This is less than ⅓ of the job returns of provinces like Quebec and Ontario.
    • We will establish minimum requirements for jobs/thousand m³ of harvest and offer tax incentives to those who exceed the minimum.
  • Only ¼ of forestry jobs are in harvest – the other ¾ are in mills and manufacturing. To support B.C.’s forestry industry we must end raw log exports and invest in domestic processing and Indigenous stewardship.
  • Reinstate appurtenancy requirements (which require locally harvested timber to be processed locally) to support community milling and manufacturing jobs.
  • Institute tenure reform and redistribution.
    • Reestablish Community Resource Boards to provide community-based and community-elected resource management, with First Nations representation and veto power.
    • Reform the Tree Farm Licensing process to transition all forest tenure to 50% ownership by First Nations and Community Resource Boards within 10 years, and move toward full-Nation ownership and governance within 15 years. 
    • Develop 25 year land use plans for each forest area according to its zoning, ecological and restoration needs, and annual allowable cut.
• End the legacy of unrestricted old growth logging.
  • Implement all 14 recommendations of the Old Growth Strategic Review in partnership with First Nations.
  • Defer harvesting in the most at-risk old growth forests, as outlined by the Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel.
  • Fully fund the protection of old forests and compensate First Nations for any lost revenues due to deferrals.
  • Implement effective targets for old and mature forest retention, and improve riparian protection province-wide, as an interim strategy before Forest Landscape Planning is finalized.
  • Direct Ministry of Forests staff to improve transparency in government announcements, reporting, and monitoring. Make information about forests and logging accessible and current— including updated maps and data.
  • Strictly prohibit pellet mills from converting trees logged in primary or old growth forests into wood pellets. Define ‘waste’ for pellet mills to ensure ecosystem health is protected.
  • Dedicate funds for private land acquisition to protect old growth forests on private lands.

• Give affected First Nations statutory authority to issue Interim Protection Orders, pending co-decision review, where serious harms to rights and ecosystems occur.
• Through Indigenous-led conservation, protect 30% of terrestrial and marine ecosystems by 2030.
• Work with First Nations to establish Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs).
• Strengthen and fund B.C.’s park system, in partnerships with First Nations, to create new provincial parks, and expand camping and recreation opportunities.
• Immediately enact Species at Risk legislation to safeguard vulnerable species.
• Pass the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Health Law, which will fund the public purchase of unique natural land to make sure those ecosystems survive.
• Place a moratorium on new licenses for open-net salmon farming in the Discovery Islands and fulfill the 2025 salmon farming phase-out commitments expressed in the Open-Net Transition Plan’s initial engagement. 
• Pass biodiversity legislation that addresses wild salmon management and protection of salmon habitat as supported by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC).
• Expand the Indigenous Guardian program with sustainable, multi-year funding for every First Nation in B.C. 
• Regulate the shipbreaking industry to protect coastal habitats from harmful practices.
• Ban the dumping of cruise ship ‘scrubbers’ or ‘wash water’ (a solution of air pollutants from the vessel and seawater) which harms our coastlines, ecosystems, and food sources, with heavy fines levied against cruise corporations that do not comply. 
• End the reckless removal of environmental assessments in new resort-builds (such as with the Zincton wilderness resort).

• Build a holistic approach to watershed protections that is co-developed with First Nations and centres Indigenous knowledge.
• Commit to bolstering the Water Security Fund.
• Review water rental rates and increase them in partnership with First Nations to reflect the administrative, ecological and restorative costs associated with water users.
  • Ban water-bottling by private corporations over the next 3 years through successively increasing rates, with immediate moratoriums imposed should B.C. face drought conditions. 
• Enact a Watershed Security Act by co-developing legislation with First Nations that protects watershed health and ensures Indigenous water rights. 
• Ensure that all watershed-related developments obtain FPIC from impacted First Nations. 
• Restore Clean Coast Clean Waters funding to support Indigenous- and volunteer-led coastal cleanup efforts. 
• Expand the single-use plastic ban to include all items with readily available alternatives. 
• Mandate reusable dishware for dine-in at food service businesses, modeled after the City of Victoria.
• Establish Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for fishing and aquaculture gear.
• Address pre-production pellet pollution through the Environmental Management Act to prevent industry leakage.

• Streamline the Mineral Claims Consultation Framework and support First Nations with additional capacity funding, while requiring FPIC on all mineral claims. 
• Bring the Mineral Tenure Act into alignment with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Ensure that mineral tenure accounts for a broad suite of values and interests, and ensures that in issuing tenures, decision-makers:
  • Uphold Indigenous title, rights and interests;
  • Respect community and regional land-use designations and planning processes;
  • Consider the cumulative watershed impacts of industrial activities; whether lands are likely to be protected in the future; the track records of applicants; and other relevant factors;
  • Require FPIC on all new mining activities;
  • Grant Indigenous Governing Bodies statutory power under the Mineral Tenure Act and include mechanisms requiring FPIC for free mining certificates;
  • Work toward building capacity for First Nations to develop and administer their own claim staking process. 
• Improve revenue sharing opportunities for First Nations in the mining sector while working with First Nations toward a fully Indigenous-owned mining sector in B.C. 
• Work with First Nations to mandate “no-go zones” to protect all designated Old Growth Management Areas, Wildlife Habitat Areas, domestic-use watersheds, fisheries-sensitive watersheds, salmon rovers, and other sensitive areas from mining activities.
• Require that mining exploration and development activities conform with Indigenous, local, and regional land-use plans and restrict mining activity where there is no such plan in place.
  • Enable (at the request of Indigenous or local governments) revocation of exploration and mineral development rights that are inconsistent with land-use plan designations
• Establish an industry-levied fund to mitigate the costs of mining pollution and disasters, including the rehabilitation of abandoned mines.
• Require environmental assessments for all mines; for mining exploration activities when requested by First Nations or local communities; and for major expansions of existing mines.
•  Require that perpetual-care costs are fully considered in the assessment of all mines.
• Enhance oversight of the mining industry through a robust inspection and audit process.
• Require landowner consent for mining activities on private property and enable landowners to place requirements on exploration or mining activities as conditions of their consent.
• Engage in a conversation about the future of critical minerals in B.C. in collaboration with Rightsholders.
  • Prioritize transition minerals in mining. 
  • Strengthen revenue sharing, financing, and Indigenous ownership opportunities to ensure that benefits flow to communities and First Nations, not just shareholders.
  • Require FPIC for all new mining activities. 
• Implement all recommendations from BC Mining Law Reform’s A Plan of Action for Change. 

• Extreme weather events will only get worse as the climate crisis rages on — we must protect British Columbians, and prevent these events in the first place.
• Require polluter-pay models to contribute to wildfire, heat, and flood resilience funds.
• Create robust wildfire protection measures.
  • Dedicate $100 million in annual funding from resilience funds for preventative and harm-reduction measures, including fuel management treatments to mitigate wildfire risks.
  • Improve communication about wildfires through engagement, better live updates, more trusted information, and more detailed coverage.
  • Fully implement all recommendations from the Abbott Chapman report to improve firefighting strategies and community safety.
  • Build on FireSmart and wildland urban interface management programs to foster neighborhood resilience against wildfires.
  • Provide funding and technical assistance to private landowners to improve outreach and wildfire preparedness.
  • Hire additional seasonal and year-round firefighters to ensure adequate staffing.
  • Invest $50 million annually in community safety and firefighting responses.
  • Implement strategies to fix recruitment and retention issues within the firefighting community.
  • Enhance agency capacity and resources for local firefighting teams to improve response effectiveness. Incorporate local and Indigenous knowledge into first responders’ training.
  • Ensure access to mental health support for survivors of wildfires and firefighters.
  • Increase the scale of fuel treatments, such as forest thinning and fuel removal, to reduce fire hazards.
  • Work with First Nations to expand the use of prescribed and cultural burning while supporting Indigenous fire stewardship practices.
  • Mandate that industry adopt better practices, including fuel thinning and removal, to enhance forest resilience.
  • Create hundreds of union jobs and protect students from wildfire smoke by upgrading HVAC systems in public schools across the province.
• Expand funding to First Nations Emergency Services Society of BC (FNESS) and First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) to support First Nations with wildfire response and emergency preparedness.
• Protect our communities from extreme heat:
  • Create ‘Too Hot To Work’ regulations to ensure that workers are protected from extreme heat events and are not subjected to unsafe temperatures. 
  • Mandate that all rental units contain at least one space that can always reach a liveable temperature range with acceptable ventilation and air quality.
  • Protect against dangerously high temperatures in schools by legislating a safe maximum safe temperature for school operation. 
  • Develop streamlined funding pathways for municipalities to establish ambitious urban tree canopy targets, which can reduce air temperature by up to 12 degrees Celsius.
• Create a provincial climate change adaptation fund to upgrade provincial infrastructure and local adaptation measures.  
• Prevent flooding by creating a provincial diking authority with enforcement mechanisms and properly trained staff including hydrologists and engineers that are able to inspect dikes annually and the government meaningful accounts for these reports.  

• Reform our voting system by transitioning from the undemocratic First-Past-the-Post system to Proportional Representation for the 2028 election to ensure that everyone is represented in our government.
  • This would involve the creation of regional ridings to which representatives would be elected based on the proportion of support their party receives in their regional riding.
• Lower the voting age to 16 to build up democratic participation and ensure young people can have a voice when determining their future.
  • Introduce civics and voting education in schools to further empower young people to participate actively in our democracy.
• Legislate B.C.’s Permanent Residents’ right to vote in municipal elections in BC.
• Assign Elections BC as the official regulatory body responsible for overseeing and administering provincial political party leadership contests to ensure transparency, fairness, and compliance with electoral laws.
• Expand democratic and accountable governance.
  • Commit to expanding the use of Citizen Assemblies (a proportionally representative group of citizens selected to provide recommendations, options, or a collective decision). While the government often needs to move swiftly to address emergencies, greater public input, engagement, and accountability is crucial on large public challenges and structural issues.
  • Establish an independent provincial Legislative Budget Officer (akin to the federal Parliamentary Budget Officer) to provide the budget-making process with the best independent revenue and expenditure projections. This will help to depoliticize fiscal forecasting and end the practice of governments systematically low-balling revenues at budget time, depressing expectations, and depriving public services of needed investments. 
• Increase access to legal aid
  • Fully restore and fund poverty law legal aid in B.C. to address areas such as income security, employment, housing, and debt.
  • Ensure all practitioners of legal aid are trained in trauma-informed, culturally safe practices that include power analysis, decolonization, and gender-based violence training.
  • Increase funding for family law legal aid, raise the income cut-off for eligibility, and significantly increase the number of hours available per case.
  • Increase funding to the Human Rights Tribunal to stop extensive delays and restore service levels.
  • Ensure Internet access, access to technology, and in-person support to those accessing the legal system online.
  • Apply a gender-based analysis lens (GBA+) to all legal aid funding in B.C.

• Immediately dismantle the infamous Critical Response Unit (CRU-BC, formerly C-IRG), known for its violations of the rights of Indigenous land defenders and its systemic interference with press freedoms on behalf of massive fossil fuel corporations.
• Create stronger regulations and greater transparency on corporate lobbying of B.C. government officials. We need to limit the influence of industries such as Big Oil, Big Forestry, and Big Grocery on our government.
  • Ban lobbying from the fossil fuel industry.
  • Require lobbyists to disclose how much they are paid by a client.
  • Strengthen conflict of interest and ethics rules for public servants and elected representatives, including a 10 year shut-out period for post-employment lobbies and a ban on politicians joining corporate boards for at least 10 years after leaving office.
• Create a process for transparent, public-informed decision making on all major capital investments by the government. Establish a government body focused on the transparency of large public investments to ensure independent oversight of decision-making and disclosure of relevant information.

• Fully implement the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), including required documentation of Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) on all projects impacting First Nation’s communities and lands.
• Work with First Nations leaders to prevent potential violations of rights through Bill 14 and 15:
  • Amend Bill 14 and 15 to require documented FPIC from affected rights-holders before a project can be designated under the Act.
  • Restore environmental assessment coverage through mandated Indigenous-led assessments.
  • Establish statutory co-decisionmaking bodies with equal First Nation representation.
  • Require a regional, Indigenous-led cumulative effects thresholds. 
  • Create a public registry for Bill 14 and 15 designations.
  • Establish a dedicated FPIC capacity fund to support First Nation technical teams, legal work, community engagement and Indigenous Guardian programs during project reviews and monitoring.
• Support First Nations in pursuing full title, and allocate funds to support the negotiations and implementation of modern treaties.
• Establish a fund for historical redress to support First Nations in making self-determined choices when charting their own path to cultural, economic, and social well-being.
• Work with the Federal government to provide clean drinking water for all Indigenous and remote communities.
• Recognize all Indigenous governments formed in alignment with the principles of Indigenous self-determination, removing limitations related to ‘Indian Act’ bands and those incorporated under provincial statutes.
  • Provide Indigenous governments with stable and reliable funding, comparable to other levels of government, allowing them to carry out their duties and make long-term investment and planning decisions.
• Affirm Indigenous language rights and provide the resources needed to preserve and revitalize Indigenous languages.
  • Enact an Indigenous Languages Act, which will guarantee Indigenous language rights and provide communities with the necessary funding and support for language preservation, revitalization, and strengthening.
  • Enable the use of all Indigenous languages on government-issued identification at no additional cost.
• Ensure the Land Act is fully aligned with the inherent rights of First Nations and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. 
• Ensure that provincial legislation and decision-making processes uphold the rights of First Nations.
  • Enact an amendment to the Interpretation Act confirming that all provincial enactments must uphold the rights of First Nations, ensuring that no laws abrogate or derogate from those rights.
  • Establish an expert advisory committee comprising specialists in Indigenous rights, DRIPA, and constitutional law. This committee will advise both the Provincial Government and Indigenous governments on legislative developments—and their advice will be made public.
  • Co-develop a mechanism with First Nations for resolving Indigenous-Crown disputes proactively, to foster understanding and avoid litigation.
• Work with First Nations to build up capacity and institutional support to govern, own, and administer all natural resources and land-based decisions on their own territories.

• Restructure Crown corporations to model workplace democracy.
  • Require that at least one-third of all board seats in Crown corporations be elected directly by employees through a confidential, democratic process.
    • Guarantee proportional representation for different employee groups (e.g., unionized, non-unionized, regional offices) to ensure diverse perspectives.
  • Require boards to engage in formal consultation with employee representatives before major strategic decisions (e.g. restructuring, privatization, automation, or outsourcing).
    • Mandate joint labor–management committees on workplace safety, sustainability, and workforce development.
  • Introduce legal obligations for Crown corporations to publish annual workplace democracy reports that outline employee participation in governance, workplace satisfaction, and progress on equity.
  • Amend enabling statutes to include commitments to workplace democracy, employee well-being, and community accountability as part of Crown corporations’ legislated purposes.
  • Align employee board representation with existing collective bargaining rights, ensuring unionized employees retain independent representation while participating in governance.
  • Launch pilot projects in selected Crown corporations to refine worker-director frameworks, with mandatory legislative review after 5 years.
    • Establish a phased implementation plan to extend worker representation across all Crown corporations.
• Support workplace democracy and worker co-ops in the private sector.
  • Establish a BC Cooperative Investment Fund that provides low-interest loans, loan guarantees, and grants to worker-owned businesses.
  • Offer tax credits to individuals and institutions that invest in worker-owned co-ops.
  • Create a “Right to Own” financing program that supports employee buyouts of businesses at risk of closure, succession, or sale.
  • Modernize the BC Cooperative Association Act to simplify the incorporation of worker co-ops and reduce administrative burdens.
    • Amend business succession laws to require that employees be given the first right of refusal when an owner seeks to sell or close a business.
    • Develop clear legal recognition and protections for hybrid cooperative–corporation structures that balance employee ownership with outside investment.
  • Provide corporate tax reductions for certified worker-owned cooperatives.
  • Offer payroll tax incentives for businesses that transition to majority employee ownership.
  • Allow worker co-op members to benefit from similar RRSP and pension tax treatment as shareholders in conventional corporations.
  • Fund a Cooperative Development Centre to provide legal, financial, and organizational training for groups starting or converting to worker-owned enterprises.
  • Integrate cooperative business models into entrepreneurship, trade, and business school curricula at B.C. colleges and universities.
  • Prioritize worker-owned cooperatives in provincial and municipal procurement contracts.
    • Develop co-op certification standards (similar to “B Corp” or “Fair Trade”) to increase consumer visibility and trust.
  • Introduce a Workplace Democracy Certification Program for private companies that meet standards for employee participation, transparency, and profit-sharing.
    • Offer preferential access to provincial funding programs for certified democratic workplaces.
    • Encourage union – co-op partnerships, allowing co-ops to integrate collective bargaining with democratic governance.
  • Provide temporary tax deferrals for owners who sell to their employees through a cooperative structure.