The Conservatives and NDP will focus on health care as one of the chief concerns of voters, as British Columbians have experienced emergency-room closings, long waiting times for diagnostics and treatment, ambulance delays and a persistent shortage of family...
NDP Leader David Eby kicked off the election campaign in British Columbia warning that a provincial Conservative government would gut health care spending – a claim his rival dismissed as a bold lie.
B.C.’s Lieutenant-Governor Janet Austin signed the writ on Saturday, with Oct. 19 set as the election date. The campaign began as a tight two-way race between the governing NDP and the Conservatives – a party that has surged in popularity this year but earned less than 2 per cent of the popular vote in the 2020 election.
Wait times in B.C. have declined overall as a result of a surgical renewal plan that has expanded hours for operating rooms since 2020. According to, B.C. does not meet national benchmarks for wait times of priority health procedures – but it still ranks first among the provinces on the time it takes to get cataract surgeries, and for hip and knee replacements, it ranks second.
“What the Conservatives are putting forward is not going to fix our health care system,” Mr. Eby told a weekend rally. “You don’t fix our health care system, when we have a growing and aging population, where we’re short the health care professionals that we need, where they’re working in hospitals that should have been rebuilt a generation ago – that are only getting rebuilt now by our government – you don’t fix that system by cutting resources, by cutting money out of that system.
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