Join us April 6 when we sit down with Premier David Eby for a wide-ranging conversation.
The 100 days of action Premier Eby promised when he took on the role Nov 18 recently wrapped with an announcement of new cost-of-living payments for British Columbians. Buoyed by a one-time budget surplus he’s announced hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding for housing, healthcare, and agriculture. BC Ferries and Translink each received a half-billion dollars to keep fares down while maintaining service levels. The Premier has set out to reform the catch-and-release of repeat violent offenders, and to address BC’s crises in mental healthcare and toxic drug deaths.
His campaign has been criticized for being big on announcements but light on execution, as relevant cabinet ministers have struggled to answer questions in the legislature and media. His creation of a ‘duplicate cabinet’ of high-profile experts reporting directly to the premier’s office on key issues including housing, healthcare, and reconciliation - already the mandates of senior cabinet ministers - has been critiqued as evidence he is centralizing. He is taking a distinctly different approach from that of his predecessor John Horgan.
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