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From YouTube: NOVEMBER 22 2021 Question Period
Description
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
2nd Session
42nd Parliament
A
A
She
says,
and
I
quote,
the
provincial
government
has
taken
a
drastic
leap
of
logic
arriving
at
the
conclusion
that
the
only
way
is
an
enlarged
government
bureaucracy
and
a
diminished
role
for
private
operators.
Like
me,
small
businesses
that
survived
the
pandemic
now
find
themselves
threatened
by
government
policies
that
are
slowly
squeezing
out
the
private
child
care
sector.
C
For
the
first
time
in
bcc
street
we've
invested
in
significant
funding
to
the
very
diverse
sector,
supporting
all
providers
and
what
the
member
opposite
is
saying
is
simply
not
true.
Let
me
be
clear:
for-profit
providers
will
continue
to
receive
operating,
grant
fee
reductions,
wage
enhancement
and
also
funding
to
support
and
maintain
their
services.
No
child
care
is
under
threat.
C
What
we're
doing
really
is
to
learn
what
we've
learned
from
the
past
four
years
is
that
families
want
child
care
that
can
become
long-term
community
assets,
and
we
have
so
much
strong
interest
from
local
government
from
school
district
from
indigenous
communities
that
wants
to
partner
with
us,
and
that
is
what
we're
doing,
while
the
other
opposition
voted
against
our
child
care
plan
and
our
budget.
Every
single
step
of
the
way.
A
Mr
speaker,
it
is
absolutely
impossible
to
reconcile
what
this
minister
just
said
to
the
briefing
note
and
the
decision
note
that
she
signed
off
on
what
she
said
is
simply
not
accurate
and
she
knows
it.
The
very
candid
briefing
note
that
a
decision
note
that
this
minister
signed
off
on
lays
out
a
much
less
positive
picture.
In
fact,
it
states
clearly-
and
these
are
her
ministry
officials-
that
public
sector
child
care
space
growth
slowed
over
the
last
three
years.
Contrary
well,
the
minister
can
shake
her
head
all
she
wants.
A
She
may
want
to
open
up
her
briefing
binder
and
check
out
the
decision
note
and
look
at
the
paragraph
that
shows
the
graphs
and
the
details
she
might
want
to
to
do
that.
Half
the
child
care
spaces
in
british
columbia
are
run
by
private
providers
and
largely
women.
Entrepreneurs
with
small
independent
businesses
sandra
in
fact,
was
recognized
with
the
2021
surrey
women
in
business
award,
but
instead
of
celebrating
women
entrepreneurs
like
sandra
apparently,
this
minister
wants
to
impact
the
very
significant
child
care
facilities
that
sandra
operates.
A
Here's
what
sanders
says-
and
I
quote-
I
am
a
woman
in
the
workforce-
a
woman
entrepreneur
and
a
mother
of
two
creative
kids
and
early
childhood
education
are
my
life's
work.
This
is
all
I
know
having
borne
the
weight
of
child
care
for
the
past
25
years.
We
are
scared
that
our
businesses
will
be
taken
over
shut
down,
dissolved
and
even
worse,
forgotten.
A
C
Thank
you
so
much
honorable
speaker
again.
I
want
to
recognize
all
the
work
of
early
childhood
educators
and
also
all
providers,
whether
they're,
non-profit
for-profit,
indigenous
local
government,
family
provider
in
home
oth.
We
want
to
partner
with
them
and
we
have
been
partnering
with
them
and
we
will
continue
to
support
them
through
operating
fund
funding
to
maintain
their
spaces
fee
reduction
program,
early
childhood
educator,
wage
enhancement
and
dozens
of
new
initiatives
that
our
government
has
funded
since
2018..
C
And
I
would
like
to
say,
for
example,
our
feed
reduction
program
that
currently
has
over
93
percent
of
providers
joining
our
program,
including
for-profit
provider,
is
a
huge
success
of
how
our
child
care
investment
has
benefited
the
sector
and
the
fact
that
the
opposition
member
is
waiving
this
decision
note
that
was
actually
shared
in
the
canada-wide
agreement
in
the
summer,
when
the
premier
and
prime
minister
justin
trudeau,
both
saying
that
publicly
that
we
are
going
to
prioritize
funding
into
public
nonprofit
spaces.
This
is
not
a
secret.
This
decision
was
shared
widely
members.
B
C
D
D
C
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker
and
again,
our
government
has
been
partnering
with
the
very
diverse
sector.
We
have
increased
funding
significantly
and
not
cutting
any
funding.
This
is
a
historical
time
in
our
province
that
we
are
working
with
the
federal
government,
our
national
child
care
plan,
we're
working
with
local
government
school
district
indigenous
communities
to
look
at.
How
can
we
utilize
current
public
existing
spaces
to
create
good
quality,
child
care
that
will
become
long-term
community
assets
and
we
are
continuing
to
partner
with
family
providers
through
our
startup
funding.
C
That
will
continue
to
create
many
many
spaces
with
small
business
people.
We
are
continuing
this
work,
while
the
other
side
of
the
house
continue
to
create
confusion
and
fear.
That's
unnecessary
to
this
sector
that
has
been
struggling
for
years
under
their
watch
when
they
were
in
government
for
16
years,
with
a
lack
of
support
and
just.
E
D
D
So
I
have
repeatedly,
mr
speaker,
I
have
repeatedly
asked
this
minister
about
the
ndp
policies
that
make
private
spaces
unviable.
This
spring
surrey,
child
care
provider,
said
quote
as
a
result
of
this
sudden
change.
We
feel
helpless
and
face
economic
ruin
as
we
watch
our
life
savings
disappear
because
of
our
dream.
To
develop
a
child
care
center
with
over
a
hundred
new
spaces
has
now
turned
into
a
nightmare.
D
C
F
B
C
B
H
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
This
bc
ndp
government
knew
of
the
fierce
opposition
to
the
coastal
gaslink
pipeline.
The
blockades
caused
by
this
pipeline
have
shut
down
highways
ferries
railroads
and
this
legislature.
It
was
no
surprise.
The
premier's
chief
of
staff
acknowledged
it
and
told
me
personally
that
this
such
this
shutdown
or
this
situation
would
be
resolved.
H
H
H
H
I
Thank
you
very
much,
mr
speaker
and
I'd
love
to
like
to
thank
the
member
for
sen
saanich,
north
and
the
islands.
It's
true.
This
has
been
a
very
difficult
conflict
and
it's
true
as
well
that
there
has
been
tension
and
division
within
the
witsowiton
nation.
Our
government
is
committed
to
sorting
this
out
in
the
words
of
the
member
through
negotiations
with
the
federal
government
and
the
witsowiton
nation.
We've
been
struggling
to
do
so.
I
I
In
other
cases,
the
courts
have
told
us
what
it
means
in
the
childcoteen
case
in
the
guest
in
the
delgamook
case.
We
know
that
there
is
such
a
thing,
but
no
court
has
ever
told
us
in
that
yenta
the
territory
of
the
whitsout
and
just
what
it
means,
and
so,
mr
speaker,
we
are
doing
the
hard
work
that
that
requires.
I
have
met
with
chief
wass
the
hereditary
gitlin
den
clan
leader
on
many
occasions
and
spoken
with
him.
I
We
have
retained
mr
miles
richardson,
a
highly
respected
indigenous
leader
and
former
president
of
the
council
of
the
haida
nation
to
serve
as
an
interlocutor
to
get
the
conversations
going.
So
we
can
get
on
with
this
work
and,
mr
speaker,
it
will
be
done
when
unity
can
be
achieved.
It
will
be
done
when
the
federal
provincial
government
and
the
witsowiton
nation
come
together
to
do
this
historic
work
and
complete
the
the
work
that
has
been
started
only
in
the
last
two
or
three
years.
H
H
B
H
What
we
have
from
this
bc
ndp
government
is
more
of
the
same
divide
and
conquer
tactics,
gift
wrapped
in
meaningless
political
rhetoric
and
empty
promises.
Some
of
the
members
might
be
feeling
offended
by
these
sharp
and
direct
comments.
Mr
speaker,
however,
they
are
what
they're
feeling
is
nothing
like
what
my
relatives
felt
in
residential
and
day
schools
languishing
in
the
child
welfare
system
and
watching
their
unseated
territory
devastated
by
this
crown
government.
Mr
speaker,
my
question
is
to
the
minister
of
indigenous
relations
and
reconciliation.
H
I
Minister
and
thank
you
member,
I
I
find
the
harsh
rhetoric
absolutely
unhelpful
in
this
important
historic
work
to
talk
about
bad
faith,
mr
speaker,
to
suggest
that
we
have
done
nothing.
I
have
spoken
with
a
chief
was
on
several
occasions.
I
have
talked
to
my
federal
counterpart.
I
have
engaged
miles
richardson.
I
have
been
in
the
territory
to
meet
the
elected
and
the
hereditary
leaders
in
early
september.
I
continue
to
work
with
a
non-indigenous
group
of
people
in
the
community
who
are
likewise
committed
to
getting
on
with
this
historic
work.
I
We
have
provided
point
two,
two
million
dollars
to
get
the
unity
work
done,
which
the
which
soating
nation
itself
acknowledges
is
critically
required.
We
have
provided
one
point,
two:
three
million
dollars
to
create
a
a
government,
a
seat
of
government
for
the
hereditary
nation,
the
credit
to
the
watson
nation
at
lake
kathleen
school
near
smithers,
mr
speaker,
to
suggest
that
we
have
been
idle.
It
seems
to
me
a
great
greatly
deceives
this
house.
Mr
speaker,
I
reject
that
this
government
is
in
responsible
for
sowing.
J
Thank
you
very
much,
mr
speaker.
In
light
of
last
week's
floods,
there
is
a
a
significant
amount
of
major
repair
work
that
needs
to
be
done,
a
lot
of
which
is
underway
on
our
roads
and
highways
around
the
province
of
british
columbia.
This
work
needs
to
be
done
quickly
and
it
needs
to
be
done
as
cost-effectively
as
possible
for
british
columbia's
taxpayers.
So
my
question
to
the
minister
of
transportation
is
this:
can
he
confirm
whether
or
not
the
ndp
will
impose
their
discriminatory
union
only
labor
scheme
on
these
major
highway
repair
projects.
G
Thank
you
very
much,
mr
speaker,
and
thank
you
to
the
member
for
the
question
because
he's
quite
right.
Every
member
of
this
house,
the
priority
of
this
house
in
its
entirety,
should
be
the
rebuilding
of
communities
that
sustain
damage
in
the
worst
flood
we've
ever
had
in
over
a
century
and
the
calls
that
we
are
getting
the
coordination
we
are
doing
as
a
government
from
contractors
union
non-union.
What
have
you
to
get
to
work?
Rebuilding
british
columbia,
the
enthusiasm
and
the
support
they
have
is
nothing
short
of
inspirational
and
overwhelming,
mr
speaker.
G
So
what
our
job
to
do
as
a
government
is
to
procure
things
as
quickly
as
possible,
get
roads
in
working
condition.
That's
what
we've
done
for
the
past
week!
That's
what
people
have
done
around
the
clock
in
horrible
weather,
under
very
difficult
circumstances
and
conditions
sacrificing
themselves
so
that
other
british
colombians
who
are
stranded
can
get
home
and
that's
what
happened
last
week.
So
we
will
work
quickly
on
a
procurement
model
that
works
to
restore
british
columbia's
supply
lines.
That's
what
we're
doing!
We
have
a
bilateral
table
with
the
federal
government
on
exactly
that.
G
I've
given
an
update
to
the
province
just
this
morning
about
supply
lines
that
may
come
back
into
functioning
good
order,
including
rail
connection,
to
the
rest
of
canada.
That
is
our
number
one
priority,
mr
speaker
is
fixing
roads
that
have
sustained
heavy
heavy
damage
in
the
worst
flood
episode
we
have
ever
had
in
a
hundred
years.
J
J
That
is
why
I
I've
asked
a
very
simple
and
straightforward
question
and
I'm
looking
for
a
yes
or
no
answer
to
the
minister
of
transportation.
Will
he
commit
here
today
the
community
benefit
agreements
or
discriminatory
union.
Only
labor
requirements
will
not
be
attached
to
a
single
one
of
the
projects
to
rebuild
highways,
roads
and
other
damaged
infrastructure
in
british
columbia.
G
G
G
B
G
E
You,
mr
speaker,
at
a
time
when
people
are
literally
watching
their
lives
float
away.
They
need
to
know
their
government
is
on
their
side.
They
shouldn't
have
to
worry
about
accommodation.
They
shouldn't
have
to
worry
about
navigating
a
maze
of
rules,
so
they
can
afford
to
feed
their
families.
Many
of
the
families
impacted
are
not
wealthy,
they're,
renting
a
hotel
room
at
their
own
expenses,
and
it
is
out
of
their
means.
E
E
First,
no
warning
of
the
threat,
then
no
support
to
deal
with
the
aftermath.
This
falls
completely
at
this
government's
feet.
Can
the
minister
commit
today
that
people
who
have
fallen
between
the
cracks
will
get
the
support
they
need?
Not
just
for
the
first
three
days,
but
for
as
long
as
it
takes
to
bring
them
home.
F
You
honorable
honourable
speaker,
and
I
appreciate
the
the
question
from
the
member
and
I
can
fully
understand
the
angst
and
the
anxiety
that
people
who've
been
evacuated
would
have
in
this
situation,
and
I
think
all
of
us
want
to
do
everything
we
can
to
make
sure
that
they
are
fully
supported.
I
can
tell
a
member
that
there
was
an
issue
at
the
kamloops
center.
It
was
not
there
at
the
kelowna
center.
F
I
can
tell
you
I
was
contacted
by
the
mayor
in
merit
and
I
told
her
that
I
would
look
into
it
right
away,
which
we
did,
and
I
can
tell
her
that
those
individuals
that
she
is
talking
about
and
others
impacted,
were
in
fact
and
have
been
contacted
on
may
still.
Some
may
still
be
contact,
but
I
want
to
tell
you
that
that
they
are
contacted.
F
K
Thanks,
mr
speaker,
fires
heat
waves
now
flooding
in
each
case.
What
we
have
heard
from
the
government
is
an
attempt
to
excuse
their
slow
response
and
lack
of
warning
on
the
basis
that
the
events
were
unprecedented
and
couldn't
be
predicted.
But
in
the
case
of
the
the
nuksac
river,
the
same
thing
happened
only
20
years
ago.
F
F
The
member
mentions
20
years
ago
20
years
ago,
and
they
sat
on
this
side
of
the
house,
and
I
don't
make
that
I'm
not
making
that
comment
in
an
expersive
remark,
but
rather
to
to
to
illustrate
there
is
no
simple
solution
in
terms
of
the
nuksac
river.
If
there
was,
I
expect
that
that
would
have
been
in
place
by
now.
It
is
a
very
complex
situation
involving
all
kinds
of
issues
around
drainage
and
where
communities
are
lit
are
are
are
located.
F
I
have
mentioned
this
with
minister
blair
at
the
federal
level
as
well,
because
I
expect
that
we're
going
to
have
to
have
the
involvement
of
the
federal
government,
along
with
the
us
federal
government
as
well,
in
dealing
with
some
of
these
cross-border
challenges
when
they
come
to
climate
very
quickly.
In
terms
of
the
issue
around
the
the
atmospheric
river,
a
term
which
I
think
is
new
to
most
of
us
in
this
house.
F
The
federal
government
and
when
I
spoke
with
minister
blair,
has
indicated
that
work
is
underway
in
environment,
canada,
in
terms
of
putting
in
place
a
ranking
system
similar
to
what
they
have
in
the
u.s.
That
will
allow
us,
as
a
government,
to
at
the
provincial
level
and
the
local
level,
to
have
a
better
understanding
of
the
nature
and
the
strength
of
these
atmospheric
rivers,
which
will
allow
us
to
be
much
better
prepared
in
what
needs
to
be
done,
and
I
will
give
just
a
quick
example.
F
The
one
that
was
looked
at
prior
to
the
house
over
the
weekend
was
the
one
coming
over
the
north
coast
where
they
were
talking
about,
and
they
just
said,
atmospheric
river.
I
was
briefed
on
and
that
we
were
looking
at
potentially
two
to
three
hundred
millimeters
of
rain,
a
significant
amount
over
the
weekend
that
changed
to
where
today
it
is
fifty
to
seventy.
I
think
that
illustrates
some
of
the
variability
that
occurs
in
the
weather,
but
a
ranking
system
will
help
significantly,
and
I
appreciate
the
question
from
the
member.