The major take-aways from Premier David Eby's first throne speech
The throne speech doubled down on the government’s opposition to private health care as a solution to reducing surgical waiting times, calling privatization a “dangerous step towards a two-tiered system we know British Columbians do not want.”
The speech acknowledged a need to improve access to substance-use care by expanding treatment and recovery services.his party’s $1.5 billion plan for expanding treatment should he become premier in the next election. Falcon promised to open regional treatment centres, increase bed capacity in current treatment facilities and subsidize beds in privately-owned treatment facilities to people can get free access to treatment when they need it.
There was no mention of ending subsidies to fossil fuel companies, which Eby promised to do in an effort to win over the support of the disqualified B.C. NDP leadership hopeful and climate activist Anjali Appadurai.The government will introduce pay-transparency legislation that would require some private companies to disclose their wages to ensure women are being paid the same as their male counterparts.
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