It shouldn’t be this hard to pay your bills or buy groceries. The price of essentials like rent, food, and baby formula are breaking records.

At the same time companies are reporting record profits. #bcpoli 1/
Oil and gas companies, grocery chains, telecom companies: they're all profiting while BCers cannot afford the essentials
Examples of #profiteering over the first quarter of 2022:
Petronas - owner of #CGL - made $6.87 billion
Telus - made $4.3 billion
Loblaws - $12.3 billion. 2/
The role of govt is to protect the public interest.
So today I asked: what is the government doing to protect British Columbians from the corporations who are using them to line their pockets? 3/ #bcpoli
The Minister pointed to the @bcndp affordability package, but that package consisted of one-off solutions - a few hundred $ here, a few hundred $ there. Those tools are not going to mitigate the bad behaviour of corporations, or help the public in any long term capacity. 4/
Is our government on the side of the public, or the side of the corporate lobbyists? 5/5

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Oct 4
We cannot allow our primary forests to be cut, turn to wood pellets, and burnt. This is an egregious situation.

Today we called on the @bcndp to immediately suspend the operating licenses of all Drax-owned subsidiaries in BC. 1/ #bcpoli #oldgrowth
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Drax has been consolidating wood pellet operations in BC, controlling approximately two thirds of the industry.

Last year BC’s Chief Forester left her role and joined Drax immediately as VP for Corporate Sustainability. 2/ #bcpoli #forestry
❌A British company is cutting our primary forests for wood pellets and burning them
❌Burning wood pellets is more carbon intensive than burning coal.
❌Revolving door from the Ministry of Forests to forest industry
❌Over $10 million in provincial subsidies
3/ #bcpoli #forestry
Read 4 tweets
Oct 3
The state of healthcare in BC in 2022 is:

✖️126 emergency room closures
✖️Ambulances don't arrive when we need them
✖️Close to a million with no family doctor
✖️People are dying in hospital waiting rooms

How did we get here and how do we get out? 1/ #bcpoli #healthcare
This healthcare crisis is a result of years of mismanagement and cuts.

Like many of the issues we face, it is too big for any one person, any one party, or any one government to solve. 2/ #bcpoli #healthcare
British Columbians do not want healthcare to be used as a political football. They only want solutions.

A few weeks ago at UBCM @jjhorgan, @KevinFalcon and I all gave speeches on the importance of collaboration and working across party lines. 3/ #bcpoli #healthcare
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Sep 6
The government has a responsibility to inform, educate and support the public.

Today’s presser is yet another example of the @bcndp sending mixed messages about #COVID19. 1/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC
They continue to send mixed messages about the risks and impacts of #COVID19, telling the public that it is a ‘mild disease’ and that ‘we are emerging from the pandemic'.

We know this pandemic is not over. COVID continues to impact our health and well-being and the economy. 2/
People in BC are dying of COVID, and more and more are enduring the serious impacts of long COVID. We are seeing the impacts and ongoing toll on our #healthcare system. 3/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC
Read 7 tweets
Sep 6
Germany has one of the top ranked #healthcare systems in the world, while Canada’s is teetering. We both dedicate similar amounts of funding to universal health care.

What explains this discrepancy? Soaring admin costs is one reason.🧵 1/#bcpoli #cdnpoli
biv.com/article/2022/0…
Germany’s Pop. is 75M, Canada's is 38M.

Germany has one #healthcare administrator for every 15,545 citizens. Canada has one healthcare administrator for every 1,415 citizens

In other words, Canada has 10 times as many administrators as Germany, for fewer citizens. 2/ #bcpoli
This means that much of the money we’re spending on #healthcare in Canada isn’t going directly to services.

While some administrators are essential, excessive bureaucracy creates inefficiencies within our health-care system. 3/ #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Sep 2
The role of the provincial govt and public health is to reduce illness and protect people’s wellbeing. The @PHSAofBC recently published updated guidance for health-care providers that emphasizes risk from aerosol transmission that lingers in the air. 1/
The @PHSAofBC recommends uncrowded, well-ventilated spaces and masking in this updated clinical guidance.

We are sending our children to school into the exact opposite scenario. The @bcndp must immediately extend these guidelines to schools, universities and public settings. 2/
Infections are currently 100 times higher than what is being reported.

Children are going back to school without effective protections from an airborne virus. Govt's refusal to follow the science will continue to overrun our hospitals and put our children at risk. 3/ #bcpoli
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Jul 30
This week I attended the Peace & Unity Summit hosted by the Wet’suwet’en office. We were given the gift of being on the yintah, as witnesses. We rafted down the Wedzin Kwa. We drank from the river, saw an ancient village site and witnessed the first salmon return. 1/ #bcpoli
That same day we were under surveillance by the RCMP and CGL. It was unmissable - every turn, even outside of the Healing House, they were there watching side by side. We were photographed, videotaped, and had a drone set on us. We witnessed a person get arrested. 2/ #bcpoli
This industrial operation continues to disenfranchise Indigenous people on their territory every single day. We witnessed that. Over the next 3 days we heard similar stories from chiefs, elders, and leaders about their fight to defend their territory across BC. 3/ #bcpoli
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