A Comprehensive Plan to Win for BC

After a decade of NDP rule, British Columbia is in trouble. The province is less affordable than ever, the deficit has grown out of control, and the NDP seems more focused on implementing a radical 'Land Back' agenda instead of fixing the issues facing our province.

However, I have a plan to turn this around and I'm the only BC Conservative leadership candidate who can: defeat the NDP, implement my plan to save British Columbia, and restore prosperity to our province.

Explore my plan to Win For BC below.

As Premier of British Columbia I will:

British Columbians should be winning right now.

Only the NDP could mess up a starting hand this good: abundant resources and land, a skilled and hard-working population, and direct access to the world’s most important markets. British Columbia should be the place to build a good life in Canada.

Instead, British Columbians are constantly forced to lower our expectations simply to be able to keep living in the place where we grew up.

That is not an accident. It is the result of bad decisions, bad policies, and NDP ideology that makes it impossible for hardworking people to succeed.

That changes now.

I will:

Say yes to responsible natural resource development. We will grow our world-leading mining, forestry, fishing, oil and gas (including LNG), and agriculture sectors ensuring they stay strong for generations to come.

Scrap the NDP’s disastrous DRIPA legislation that is threatening our prosperity. I will restore a system that allows all British Columbians to participate in our economic renewal, and I’ll stand firm on the principle that decisions over public land and resources must be made by the people we elect — no more secretive deals and vetos.

Protect private property. It’s the foundation of our economy and society, and I will rescind David Eby’s directive that ties the hands of government lawyers defending property rights in court.

Appoint a Minister responsible for Economic Growth whose job is simple: cut red tape, get projects moving, and make it easier to build, invest, and create jobs in British Columbia.

Set the fastest, most consistent and predictable permitting and approvals system in the country. If you want to build in B.C., you should get clear answers fast, not endless delays.

Scrap the NDP’s so-called CleanBC plan, which is crippling our economy in the name of radical net-zero ideology. Position B.C. as a supplier of responsibly-produced resources that displace higher-emitting alternatives in global markets.

Prioritize adaptation, including hardening infrastructure against extreme weather, fires and floods. That means protecting communities most exposed to the risks of a changing climate, and ensuring that land use, building and resource management decisions anticipate future conditions.

Turn B.C. into a true energy powerhouse. Use our clean hydro power and natural gas reserves to fuel growth in wages and jobs, power new data centres, reduce global reliance on energy from repressive regimes, and make British Columbia’s workers among the most successful in the world.

British Columbia should be a place people are running to, not away from.

It’s time to bring opportunity back to B.C.

For nine years, the NDP has taken more and more of our money, growing government larger than ever. What do we have to show for it?

The average B.C. family now has to work for 5 months of the year just to pay for the costs of government, and we aren't experiencing any improvements in our communities. In most cases, things are worse.

The bureaucracy has exploded by 45%. Government hiring is outpacing the private sector five-to-one. Also, while families are tightening their belts, the NDP has doubled the debt and is on track to quadruple the generational burden on British Columbians.

That bill isn’t going away. It’s being passed on to our children.

It’s time to get back to basics.

I will:

Significantly rein in the size of government following a fast, full review of government spending and roles. Every dollar taken from British Columbians should be delivering real results, not funding waste, bureaucracy and ideological pet-projects.

When it comes to affordability, the single biggest expense many people face is the cost of government in the form of taxes. It’s time to substantially reduce the tax burden, reduce government spending, and get back to growing revenues by growing the economy.

Restore merit-based hiring across the public sector. The focus should be simple: hire the best people for the job. We will end race-and–gender based DEI hiring and scrap mandatory ideological training that pulls public servants away from serving British Columbians.

Introduce a Ministerial Accountability Act. If ministers exceed their budgets, we will cut their pay. We will also put hard limits on debt so that the government is forced to live within its means, just as every family does.

Bring choice to auto insurance. We will explore options beyond ICBC, keep rates affordable, and restore the right of seriously injured victims to hold at-fault drivers accountable.

Restore the independence of professions in B.C., including in the legal, healthcare, and engineering/resource fields. That means reversing the NDP’s new, big-government Health Professions and Occupations Act and the Legal Professions Act, along with ending mandated ideological training courses for regulated professionals.

Government should work for you; right now, it does not.

That’s going to change.

It didn’t used to be this way. Crime in British Columbia has become so bad that it seriously threatens the quality of life in communities of all sizes, and in all parts of B.C.

The NDP have pursued a catch-and-release approach to crime, which puts the rights of violent criminals above the rights of citizens to be safe in their own streets, parks, and other public spaces.

We will take back our communities, lock up the small number of repeat offenders who commit most of the crime, and get individuals suffering from serious mental health and addiction problems off the street and into effective treatment.

I will:

Back our police and ensure they’re properly resourced for the hard work they do, end the NDP’s catch-and-release approach. I will direct prosecutors to push for stricter sentences and implementation of bail conditions that properly reflect the severity of violent crime — especially for repeat offenders.

Implement an Anti-Extortion Action Plan that includes dedicated resources and work cross-jurisdictionally to identify perpetrators, demand stronger vetting of immigrants to ensure bad actors don’t come to Canada, and immediately deport non-citizens who commit serious crimes.

Join Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in opposing the federal government’s expensive and ineffective firearms buyback; stop provincial resources from being allocated to it; and focus on actual criminals instead. We will always defend lawful firearms owners from politically-driven harassment.

Protect legal occupiers of property against civil liability claims for death of, or injury to, a criminal trespasser.

Cracking Down on Drugs

Reverse the NDP's soft-on-drugs approach and end public drug use, ensuring the vast amount of resources spent on band-aid interventions are redirected toward getting people into care, treatment, and on the road to recovery.

Recognize despite their repeated denials in the past the abundance of evidence that the NDP’s radical decriminalization experiment isn’t working and that safe supply is not only adding to disorder but ending up in the hands of our kids. Channel those resources into readily-available treatment so we can help people get well.

Empower police officers to enforce the Mental Health Act when visibly distressed people are consuming drugs in public, and use the legal power of the criminal law to direct people with serious addictions and mental health problems off the streets and into care tailored to their specific needs.

Open more addictions treatment and mental health treatment centres across the province (including re-developing Riverview Hospital) by redirecting funds away from supporting the broken status quo in the Downtown Eastside and across communities in B.C.

The NDP have steeped our education system in activism that lowers standards, limits time for learning, denigrates our history, and keeps parents in the dark.

They have prioritized ideology while numeracy and literacy performance have plunged compared to previous decades. We need a return to excellence, not indoctrination, and an emphasis on core competencies to set the next generation of British Columbians up for success.

I will:

Use science-based, outcome-oriented approaches to teaching literacy, numeracy and STEM to focus on core subjects and make up for, then exceed the ground lost under the NDP - No more activist fads in learning.

Bring back clear report cards with letter grades so parents can see what their children are learning and measure their progress. Additionally, re-introducing province-wide assessments and Grade 12 course-based standardized exams to give B.C. students fair grades and bring accountability back to the education system.

Remove NDP activism from classrooms, including SOGI, critical race theory, decolonization, and other activist fads that divide students based on superficial characteristics. End land acknowledgements in schools that treat kids as though they have different claims to the land they all call home

Ensure learning equips students to understand essential topics and skills such as the crucial role of natural resources in Canada’s prosperity, their own role as citizens in the democratic process, and financial literacy from both a personal and government perspective.

Ensure the provincial curriculum tells our full history with pride and purpose, recognizing not just the mistakes of the past, but also our collective successes. Replace NDP shame in our province and country with pride in the many good things we’ve accomplished.

Empower parents with greater selection in the right schooling model for their children, whether independent, government-run, or homeschool. Look to other jurisdictions for best practices in school choice.

Free students from digital distraction, encourage free play outdoors with friends, and reduce cyberbullying and related anxiety during the school day by strengthening bans on smart phones bell-to-bell at public schools.

Public policy needs to be grounded in biological reality and we must protect our children from radical gender ideology.

In Europe and the United Kingdom, governments have finally recognized the harm inflicted by failed gender ideology experiments that rushed minors into irreversible life-altering medical decisions.

In B.C., the NDP has doubled down on radical gender ideology. Thousands of children and families will be paying the price throughout their lives.

Every person deserves dignity, respect and kindness, especially vulnerable children. However, government policy should never ignore basic biological reality nor perform irreversible gender-related medical interventions on minors.

I will:

Scrap SOGI and restore trust in our schools by putting parents back at the centre of their children’s education, recognizing that parents know their children best and are the strongest advocates for their success.

Prohibit irreversible surgical and drug interventions for minors. As parents and adults, it is our job to love and support our children, empathize with those who are struggling, and protect them from lifelong, irreversible decisions.

Protect the rights of women and girls to their own single-sex spaces, including women-only shelters and prisons.

Ensure fairness and safety in women’s sports by ensuring biological females are able to compete against other biological females.

We can be compassionate without abandoning common sense.

Access to a waiting list is not access to health care. Despite taxpayers spending more than ever on healthcare, British Columbians face a shortage of family doctors, emergency room shut-downs, maternity ward closures, and a shortage of family doctors. Too many British Columbians have had the same experience; the stress of navigating waitlists and bureaucracy often exceeds the stress of returning to wellness.

This is unacceptable, and so is losing loved ones to the NDP’s broken system.

However, instead of fixing the life-and-death crisis in healthcare, the NDP have been distracted by ideological obsessions; our Public Health Office says it prioritizes projects to “unlearn white supremacy” and lists authors of its medical reports by their ethnicity rather than medical credentials, all while British Columbians endure fewer health options and growing wait times.

We need to take off the ideological blinders and get to a system that puts outcomes for patients first.

I will:

Maintain a strong commitment to a universal health system that always provides healthcare for free at the point of service for any resident who needs it.

Remove the NDP’s ideological blinders to ensure that B.C. can adopt best practices from the top healthcare systems in Europe and around the world. We can and should deliver expanded access with better outcomes by using independent diagnostics and delivery of public care to grow our healthcare system’s capacity.

Prioritize funding to keep emergency rooms and maternity wards open, especially in rural B.C. where distance can be the difference between life and death. This means making sure funding goes to the front lines by lowering the ratio of bureaucrats and managers to beds.

Increase spaces for doctor and nurse training in B.C. universities, prioritize B.C. students over international students, and remove barriers that prevent Canadians who attend medical school abroad from coming home to practice here.

Immediately recognize medical credentials of qualified health professionals from peer nations to recruit a near-term influx of medical practitioners able to work in B.C.

Reverse the Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA) by listening to regulated healthcare professionals. Strip out the unnecessary bureaucracy, red-tape and ideological agenda the NDP have added to the regulation of healthcare professionals in B.C.

People who work hard should never struggle to find a suitable home for their family.

Housing is a pre-requisite for building a life, but feels out of reach for far too many. British Columbia has become the least affordable place to buy or rent a home in Canada.

That didn’t happen overnight; it is the result of decades of governments allowing immigration to surge while smothering homebuilders in red tape.

The result is exactly what you’d expect: for entire generations, inherited wealth - not work - has become the only path to homeownership.

B.C.’s high housing prices are the direct result of policy choices and I will do things differently. Housing must no longer be an artificial roadblock for our next generation’s aspirations and ability to live in the province they grew up in.

I will:

Reverse the NDP’s PST expansion, which is driving up construction costs at the worst possible time and pushing more housing projects off the table when we need them most.

Recognize that the federal government’s unsustainable immigration levels put significant pressure on the housing market, schools, and healthcare. As well as, demand federal dollars to make up for the deficit in housing supply and services caused by their policies.

Make it easier to build again by resetting the building code to a simpler, more practical standard, removing costly net-zero requirements and ‘Step Code” barriers, and cutting the fees, taxes and delays that make new homes more expensive with little benefit.

Hold municipal governments to locally-developed Official Community Plans that reflect appropriate density targets, while recognizing that decisions as to where that density belongs are better made by local government than bureaucrats in Victoria

Build complete communities around transit infrastructure to develop attractive, new mixed-use neighbourhoods in our cities.

Keep the tax on foreign homebuyers in place, while fixing the NDP’s short-term rental rules so that they support tourism in resort communities and provide flexibility for people who rely on short-term housing for out-of-town work.

I am proud of British Columbia. What we have built here didn’t happen by accident. It took generations of people who worked, built, sacrificed, and believed in this place.

However, instead of celebrating that achievement, the NDP and their activist class have spent years tearing it down. They have attacked our shared identity, our history, and have even told us not to call ourselves “British Columbians.”

A strong province needs a shared sense of identity. A spirit of pride and accomplishment should be reflected in our institutions, communications, and actions.

It is time to stop apologizing for this province and start standing up for it.

I will:

Restore pride in our history by ensuring museums and heritage sites—including the Royal B.C. Museum—tell the full story of British Columbia. It’s possible to acknowledge our past while celebrating our achievements and being proud of who we are as British Columbians.

End the renaming of existing places, parks, and streets; ensure names of new places are in our shared English language. Naming practices must recognize local and provincial figures of all backgrounds who have contributed to the success of our province.

Defend our province’s name and flag and reject the NDP’s idea that there’s something wrong with calling ourselves "British Columbians".

End the practice of ‘land acknowledgements’ throughout civil services and public institutions. No place on Earth can function under a government that attacks its own legitimacy and the rights of property owners. It is irresponsible for public servants representing the province of B.C. to endorse specific land claims with their words, (implicitly or explicitly), while cases are ongoing in the courts.

End compelled speech and mandatory ideological training in public institutions and for regulated professionals. No one should be forced to say something that they don’t believe or to have activist views (such as DEI or decolonization training) forced on them as a requirement to work or learn.

Ensure K-12 education builds pride, confidence, and a sense of shared civic identity for British Columbians while teaching history truthfully and in context.

British Columbia is worth believing in. It’s time that our government started acting like it.