John Horgan Hits and Misses
B.C. will spend $1.6 billion and hire 7,000 health-care workers in a bid to prevent a combination of COVID-19 and influenza from straining its health-care system this fall and winter, officials announced Wednesday.
The plan will inject $1.6 billion into the health-care system and involve the hiring and training of 7,000 health-care workers. It aims to avoid a scenario where surgeries must be widely delayed, as the province did in the spring as part of its emergency response to the pandemic.
People are pleased to see this. Compared to the Alberta premier, Jason Kenney, this man is a saint.
In contrast, to the premiers good will, it doesn't seem to stretch to the environment according to Kai Nagata of Dogwood.
With foghorns blasting through a choking pall of smoke, our friends at Stand.earth released a report yesterday showing B.C. taxpayers are funding the people poisoning us. We lose a billion dollars a year to oil and gas subsidies — more than double what the province spends fighting climate change. [1]
Those subsidies are growing. John Horgan’s BC NDP government gives more corporate welfare to the fracking industry than Christy Clark ever did. More, in fact, than any other province except Alberta. With Horgan laying the groundwork for a snap election this fall, we need to put this front and centre in the campaign.
Will the BC NDP change course? Will they take that billion dollars a year and invest it in clean, local, renewable energy, affordable housing, health care and schools? Or will they keep fuelling the climate crisis with our money?