COULD BE BY CABINET ORDER OR REGULATIONS:
Major election promises
Send B.C. Hydro’s Site C project to a review by the B.C. Utilities Commission.
Create a fair wages commission and raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over four years, later to be indexed to inflation.
Raise income assistance and disability rates by $100 a month. Create a ministry of mental health. Freeze B.C. Hydro rates and stop ICBC rate increases.
Reduce waiting lists in health-care facilities and hospitals.
Create new urgent family care centres across B.C. for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other workers, open evenings and weekends.
Other points drawn from the NDP platform and the agreement with the Green party
Cancel or pause the $9-billion bridge to replace the Massey tunnel and fast-track replacement of the Pattullo Bridge.
Order B.C. Hydro to not expropriate more private land for the Site C project.
Expand earnings exemptions for income assistance recipients who earn some money themselves.
Hire and fire appointees to as many as 300 provincial authorities, boards, commissions, corporations and councils.
Respond to softwood dispute with United States.
Order hospitals to use B.C.-grown food.
Expand the use of wood in public building projects.
Implement a cap on government IT contracts and insist on using B.C. companies for IT contracts.
Create a B.C. mining jobs task force.
Repair and replace aging hospitals, and build and upgrade schools (capital money must eventually be in a budget).
Freeze ferry fares on major routes. Reverse Liberal cuts to adult basic education and ESL programs.
Make post-secondary student loans interest-free.
Cap tuition fees at colleges and universities.
Change regulations to allow colleges and universities to build affordable housing on campus.
Improve availability of naloxone kits.
Adopt “Ask once, get help fast” approach, pioneered in the U.K., to mental health and addictions treatment.
Improve seniors funding and care hours.
Broaden the Shelter Aid For Elderly Renters program.
Expand funding and resources for the Therapeutics Initiative, which studies prescription drugs.
Reduce the cost of prescription drugs.
Set up a multi-agency unit to fight tax fraud in the housing market.
Conduct a provincewide homeless count.
Increase funding to support women and target domestic violence by $8 million a year.
Create NDP’s PowerBC energy retrofit program.
Ban grizzly bear trophy hunting. End the disability bus-pass clawback.
Fund more mental health counsellors in schools.
Create a First Nations school curriculum.