It is day three of the election campaign in B.C. and the BC NDP and BC Green Party are holding events.
On Thursday morning, BC NDP Leader David Eby said they will bring in new “Built in B.C. and Canada” procurement rules for public infrastructure projects.
Building on his election campaign kick-off speech that said B.C. has to stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump, Eby added the province must become its own best customer.
“Conservatives clearly would have rolled over for Trump, and their cuts would put the projects we’re building all over the province at risk,” Eby said.
“We can’t afford to abandon B.C. workers in the middle of a trade war.”
Eby said that this plan to build with materials from B.C. and Canada will apply to ministries, Crown agencies and health authorities, making sure they put those materials first, wherever possible.
He added that this approach will immediately apply to the construction of the North Coast Transmission Line in Northern B.C. as BC Hydro will be directed to build 70 per cent of Phase 1 towers and 100 per cent of Phase 2 towers with Canadian steel.
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Eby also said that while minimum requirements for using B.C. and Canadian-made goods will be put in place, penalties will apply to U.S.-made goods and materials, which will count against those requirements.
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The BC Green Party announced two more candidates for the upcoming election: Raj Sahota in Victoria-Beacon Hill and David Evans in Juan de Fuca-Malahat.
“I am so thrilled to welcome Raj and David to the team,” said leader Emily Lowan in a release. “British Columbians are tired of choosing between a BC NDP that hasn’t delivered and a slew of conservative parties. David and Raj are stepping up for the people this government has left behind. They’re working to make sure everyone can afford a life here, and get the care they need, when they need it.”
Sahota is a lawyer and a longstanding member of the Pacifica Housing Advisory Association board and Evans is an entrepreneur who developed a community hub and cafe before selling it in 2023.
The BC Conservatives and CentreBC did not have any events scheduled for Thursday.
piss off eby, its got nothing to do with trump, its you and your bloody NDP
your debt and crazy spending to whats the problem, in fiscal year 2026/2027 BC tax payers will pay 6.4 billion $$$ to service that debt, thats lots of money that could fund hospitals, etc, etc
How did Eby pass the Bar. He’s such an idiot!
A vote for Eby is a vote for continued economic decline and hardship for the average person.
Eby is trying the same tired line of blaming Trump just like the Federal liberals. People are starting to wise up to wokeness and incompetence that’s comes hand in hand with an NDP government. Time to put an end to this nonsense Get out and vote
Knotrofous.
The ex reporter from global Zussman is running and they don’t want him back at global.
LOL Eby is running for the US presidency against Trump
Maybe someone should point out that after getting BC so deep in financial debt and opposing any economic development that could have provided a cushion against tariffs, he’s barking up the wrong tree
I worked in the steel fabrication business for 45 years on the management end. There is lots of capacity to build ferries.The ndp and bc ferries just don’t know where to look. Take your head out of the sands.
Your NDP gov. turned its back on the steel fabricators in bc and the steel workers in Canada by awarding the Chinese ferry contracts. Why the flip flop? Are you sorry now.
Why is your station giving so much air time to promoting the NDP? Just a little biased!
It’s Trumps’ fault! The NDP voters know this to be true so they keep their heads buried in the sand like “The Ostrich” and life will be fine, and everyonr will get NDPEED on again.
I support the Eby NDP, but they should have never called an election.
Rustad for dog catcher.
built in BC, like ferries??? blame it all on trump, your one useless dirtbag
Eby blaming Trump is a joke. Trump didn’t spend thousands on a failed drug program. Trump isn’t giving away land in BC. Trump didn’t increase our debt from $90b to $180b in just 5 years of NDP mismanagement. Trump isn’t blocking pipelines so we cannot get our oil to other parts of Canada. Trump didn’t create an unemployment rate 6.5 % that’s above the national average. That’s just a few of the things that Eby is trying to blame Trump for. The only thing Eby can blame Trump for is the removal of US alcohol of the shelves in the stores. Eby says BC will be our own customer, that’s a joke with all the lumber mills closed or are in the process of closing. I don’t know what the conservatives will do with Trump but I do know what Eby has done to BC. Trump is Carney and the Liberal government’s problem they are the only ones that can make deals over the tariffs not the provinces
Slowest Growth in the Country BC has the slowest real economic growth rates of any Canadian province. Real GDP growth for the province is sluggish, and a massive $13.8 billion deficit is projected for the 2026/27 fiscal year, now yer environmental activist leader has decimated the province
Whoever the person(s) was that advised Eby to pull this, thank-you for sinking him!!
I hope this snap election backfires on eBay and Ndp big time and the polls are showing an encouraging sign. Also I would suggest to eBay to keep on blaming trump and the tariffs. The polls show that only 15 % care about that . I know they are only polls but at least there is hope
I would not be suprised if Eby was consulting a lawyer now on how to retract the election call.
The NDP will be judged by how they’ve performed, not on what they’re suddenly proposing, and not on Trump.
Angus Reid poll just released. Popular Vote, 43% Conservatives, 35% NDP. Their last poll (Sept. 12) had those numbers basically the reverse. Also, 338Canada’s (the Canadian poll aggregator) current seat projections are 47 NDP and dropping, and 44 Conservative and climbing.
In summary, the NDP is going down. Eby made a massive mistake.
“We can’t afford to abandon B.C. workers in the middle of a trade war.”
He already did this a while back.
This blaming Trump for everything is not going to work. Eby is the problem.