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From YouTube: MAY 4 2022 Question Period
Description
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
C
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
It
seems
daily
we're
confronted
with
more
and
more
data
showing
that
this
government,
just
simply
is
not
addressing
the
affordability
crisis
in
british
columbia
as
housing.
The
crisis
continues
to
get
worse
every
day.
People
are
losing
hope
with
the
ndp's
empty
rhetoric
and
lack
of
results.
D
You
very
much,
mr
speaker.
Well.
First
of
all,
the
minister
remuneration
formula
is
the
same
as
it
was
five
years
ago
when
those
folks
were
on
this
side
of
the
house,
but
you
know
what
mr
speaker,
you
know
what
what
is
what
has
has
not
changed
from
the
time
the
bc
liberals
said
on
this
side
of
the
house,
mr
speaker,
that
has
not
changed.
What
has
changed,
mr
speaker
is
a
government
that
has
been
investing
in
housing
since
the
day
we
took
office.
D
But
you
know
what
else
has
changed.
Mr
speaker,
we
got
rid
of
msp
we've
increased
social
assistance
checks.
The
highest
increase
in
our
province
is
history.
You
know
what
else
has
changed.
Mr
speaker
senior
supplement.
We
doubled
it.
You
know
what
else
has
changed.
Mr
speaker,
we
provide
rent
supplements.
You
know
what
else
changed.
Mr
speaker,
child
care
fees.
You
know
what
else
has
changed.
Mr
speaker,
icbc
rebates.
You
know
what
else
has
changed.
Mr
speaker,
we
have
reduced
car
insurance
in
this
province
when
they
set
it
on
fire.
C
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
I
noticed
the
minister
didn't
address
the
question
around
housing,
which
has
actually
become
the
most
unaffordable
under
the
five
years.
The
two
terms:
the
half
a
decade
that
this
government
has
been
in
office.
Housing
continues
to
climb
out
of
reach
for
the
average
person
under
the
ndp
plain
and
simple
by
any
measure,
and
all
we
get
from
the
minister
and
from
government
is
empty
rhetoric
and
empty
results.
C
Now,
to
put
it
in
perspective
that
the
cabinet
can
understand
that's
about
30
times
the
pay
raise,
they
just
gave
themselves
in
this
budget
and
in
surrey
the
average
price
of
a
home
has
nearly
doubled.
It's
no
wonder
three-quarters
of
the
people
in
bc
who
don't
own
a
home,
have
just
simply
given
up
under
this
ndp
government.
Once
again,
mr
speaker,
with
more
and
more
people
giving
up
on
housing.
When
will
the
ndp
move
beyond
the
empty
rhetoric
and
actually
start
delivering
some
results
for
british
columbians,
minister
of
finance,.
B
D
You
very
much,
mr
speaker.
Well,
you
know.
Bc
has
more
than
twice
the
number
of
homes
under
construction,
then
in
2012,
when
kevin
falcon
was
a
finance
minister.
Mr
speaker,
when
kevin
falcon
was,
was
a
finance
minister
that
in
2012
the
number
was
31
000
homes
were
under
construction
under
us.
In
this
last
year,
2021
67
500.
E
Ashley
jesse
is
a
young
mother
who
moved
from
victoria
to
vernon
with
her
two
young
children
and
she
was
hoping
to
find
a
place
to
rent
an
affordable
place,
but
instead
she's
actually
been
forced
to
live
out
of
a
motel
room
as
she
struggles
to
find
a
two-bedroom
apartment
to
house
her
family
well.
Under
the
ndp,
the
average
rent
for
a
two-bedroom
apartment
in
vernon
has
risen
by
four
thousand
dollars
a
year
and
we've
heard
nothing
from
the
ndp
mla
from
vernon
on
this
file.
E
F
I
was,
I
was
really
concerned
as
well
to
read
about
the
story
the
member
did.
This
family
is
living
in
a
motel
that
was
leased
by
bc
housing
as
covid
space.
F
But
it's
not
enough!
That's
why
we
have
585
homes
that
are
either
complete
or
underway
in
vernon.
169
are
open,
416
are
underway
that
includes
affordable
rental
homes,
for
families
and
seniors
homes,
for
indigenous
people,
homes,
for
people
experiencing
homelessness
and
homes,
for
students,
we're
doing
a
lot
of
work
in
vernon
and
across
the
province.
In
fact,
more
than
32
000
homes
right
now
under
construction
or
completed.
E
Well,
the
attorney
general
managed
to
get
one
thing
right
in
that
answer,
and
he
said
when
he
said
it's
not
enough
he's
absolutely
right.
It's
not
enough,
and
in
fact,
time
and
time
again,
this
attorney
general
is
all
about
rhetoric
and
no
results,
whether
it's
his
catch
and
release
justice
system
losing
big
court
cases
and
now
on
the
housing
file.
Let's
look
at
what
the
left-leaning
canadian
center
for
policy
alternatives
says.
The
ndp
have
opened
what
alternatives
have
said.
They
said
the
ndp
have
opened
less
than
10
percent
of
the
114
000
affordable
housing
units.
E
The
ndp
also
promised
a
400
renter
rebate
in
not
one
but
two
elections
in
a
row
and
guess
what
they
have
failed
to
deliver.
The
last
time
we
asked
the
attorney
general
about
this
question
many
weeks
ago.
He
said
we're
working
on
it.
How
long
does
it
take
to
work
on
it?
A
legitimate
question
to
the
attorney
general?
After
two
promises
in
two
elections,
mothers
like
ashley,
are
depending
on
it.
E
E
F
F
F
F
F
G
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
The
structure
of
outpatient
eating
disorder
programs
on
vancouver
island
is
unique
in
bc
and
shrouded
in
secrecy
in
all
other
regions
of
the
province.
Programs
are
administered
through
health
authorities,
yet
the
south
island
eating
disorders
program
is
delivered
by
the
ministry
of
children
and
family
development.
G
This
program
has
held
responsibility
for
treating
children,
youth
and
adults
struggling
with
eating
disorders
since
the
mid
1990s
during
the
pandemic.
Despite
surging
demand,
the
program
cut
adult
services,
including
counseling,
dietitians
and
psychiatrists,
offering
adult
clients
a
monthly
phone
call
and
access
to
a
few
online
groups.
It
simply
isn't
enough,
mr
speaker,
two
years
after
the
start
of
covet,
19
patients
continue
to
confront
a
near
complete
termination
of
treatment
due
to
staffing
shortages
and
funding
issues.
G
H
Well,
thank
you
very
much,
honourable
speaker
and
thank
you
to
the
member
for
the
question
and
we
do
know
that
eating
disorders
are
a
very
serious
mental
health
issue
and
they
do
benefit
from
early
intervention
and
at
the
earliest
stage,
possibly
possible,
and
we
know
how
difficult
it
is
to
access
services
as
well,
honourable
speaker
and
as
with
many
other
mental
health
issues.
During
the
pandemic.
We
have
seen
an
increased.
H
Unfortunately,
in
these
types
of
disorders
and
we've
responded
to
this
increased
need
by
working
with
the
ministry
of
mental
health
and
addictions
and
health
authority
partners
and
contracted
agencies
and
partners
as
well,
to
make
sure
that
we
can
support
integration
across
the
continuum
of
eating
disorder
services
and
we
need
to
make
sure
that
the
most
vulnerable
populations
receive
services.
So
the
priority
populations
that
have
been
focused
on
have
been
children
under
the
age
of
19
and
adults,
with
acute
presenting
issues
as
well.
H
We're
increasing
the
number
of
clinicians
honorable
speaker,
we've
recruited,
two
clinicians
into
the
program,
and
we
were
able
to
provide
support
to
adults
who,
where
there
had
been
a
temporary
suspension,
they
were
able
to
complete
their
programming
and
an
eight-week
program
had
been
provided.
That
did
provide
coping
skills
and
nutrition
as
well,
and
we
will
continue
to
assess
and
adjust
the
service
and
the
us
and
as
the
staffing
levels
are
adjusted
as
well.
G
This
is
it's.
The
responses
are
simply
not
good
enough.
Mr
speaker,
the
question
was
not
provide
a
laundry
list
of
actions
that
my
guests
clearly
are
in
disagreement
that
coming
to
my
office
seeking
support,
because
this
provincial
government
continues
to
let
them
down.
The
question
was:
why
is
it
that
the
ministry
of
children
and
family
development
is
dealing
with
adults
who
are
suffering
from
mental
health
crises
and
eating
disorders?
G
We
have
a
minister
of
health.
We
have
a
minister
of
mental
health
and
addictions
and
on
southern
vancouver
island.
Curiously,
it
is
the
ministry
of
mental
of
children
and
family
development
that
is
standing
up
and
answering
this
question
with
all
other
local
resources
running
over
capacity
and
patients
in
need
being
confronted
with
lengthy
wait
lists.
G
This
goes
for
all
resources,
adult
mental
health
services
such
as
psychiatric
care
and
casework,
general
practitioners
and
tertiary
services
at
st
paul's,
in
vancouver,
the
only
services
accessible
immediately
accessible
are
emergency
medical
services
and
even
then,
we've
heard
consistently
over
the
last
number
of
weeks.
How
long
wait
lists
are
in
ers
and
wait
lists
for
urgent
and
primary
care
centers
and
wait
lists
for
walk-in
clinics.
G
Adults
who
are
struggling
with
eating
disorders
cannot
access
timely,
evidence-based
services
when
they're.
Faced
with
these
lengthy
wait
lists,
eating
disorders
have
the
highest
death
rate
of
any
mental
illness.
When
people
in
crisis
are
refused
urgent
care,
it
is
quite
literally
a
death
sentence.
The
advocates
who
are
here
today
wanting
an
answer
because
they
haven't
been
able
to
get
it
in
any
other
way,
have
been
seeking
answers
to
these.
This
question
that
I
asked
previously
in
this
question
for
years,
and
my
question
again
is
to
the
minister
of
children
and
family
development.
H
Thank
you
to
the
member
for
the
for
the
question
many
years
ago,
when
the
service
was
created,
it
was
decided
that,
in
order
to
provide
a
seamless
service
that
the
service
would
continue
to
be
available
to
adults
aged
over
19,
really
thinking
about
the
transition
for
those
children,
young
people
who
had
been
receiving
services
in
the
clinic
and
for
them
to
have
that
seamless
transition
to
make
sure
that
they're
supported
into
a
healthy
adulthood
and
I'll
just
add.
H
Honourable
speakers,
that
our
government
has
actually
announced
a
6.6
million
dollar
investment
to
expand
eating
disorder,
services
and
supports.
And
that
includes
peer
supports
as
well,
and
to
make
sure
that
there
is
more
timely
access
for
the
kind
of
care
that
we
know
that
people
british
colombians
need.
H
This
included
supporting
regional
health
authorities
to
hire
more
staff
to
expand
existing
eating
disorder,
services
and
funding
to
the
looking
glass
foundation
for
eating
disorders,
to
support
increased
access
to
virtual
peer
services
and
people
living
with
an
eating
disorder,
and
the
situation
here
on
south
island
is
continually
under
review
and,
as
we
recruit,
more
staff
will
be
able
to
adjust
services.
Thank
you.
I
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
I
don't
think
there's
any
better
illustration
of
this
ndp
government's
empty
rhetoric
and
lack
of
results
on
child
care
than
seeing
empty
unused
building
across
from
oakland's
elementary
here
in
victoria.
In
2019.
There
was
this
big
splashy
ndp
announcement
promising
quote
morning.
Routines
will
soon
be
easier
for
parents.
End
quote:
this
government
loves
to
make
big
splashy
announcements
about
all
of
the
child
care
spaces
that
are
being
opened
earlier.
This
week,
thirty
thousand
five
hundred
spaces
have
been
funded.
I
I
I
think
the
members,
mr
speaker
of
the
other
side
of
the
house,
should
be
actually
embarrassed
by
the
numbers
being
announced
when
the
reality
is
it's
rhetoric
and
these
spaces
are
not
opened.
But
three
years
after
this
2019
announcement
in
victoria,
there
are
no
spaces
open
mira.
Lawrence
of
the
oakland's
community
association
says
quote:
these
buildings
are
going
to
sit
empty
unless
we
find
the
people
to
put
in
them
that
can
provide
this
child
care.
J
Thank
you
so
much
honorable
speaker.
We
know
that
parents
in
bc
have
been
struggling
to
access
quality,
affordable
child
care
spaces,
and
that
is
why,
since
2018
as
soon
as
we
became
government
that
we've
been
working
on
a
comprehensive
plan
to
accelerate
recreational
spaces
to
lower
parent
fees
and
at
the
same
time
supporting
early
childhood
educators
who
are
so
critical
to
fill
those
spaces,
and
we've
made
significant
progress
in
the
past
few
years
to
make
sure
that
we
have
the
fastest
space
creation
ever
in
bc's
history.
J
I'm
more
than
happy
to
take
back
the
situation
that
the
member
just
mentioned
and
look
into
it
with
our
staff
and
figure
out.
How
do
we
support
providers
to
continue
to
create
those
spaces,
but
the
reality
is
during
the
past
few
years,
we've
funded
and
supported
the
creation
of
over
30
500
spaces
and
among
them
over
10
000
spaces
are
already
in
operation
and
more
of
them
will
be
coming
into
operation
in
the
coming
year.
J
An
honorable
speaker,
I
just
want
to
put
this
into
perspective,
while
in
a
few
short
years
we've
funded
and
already
have
10
thousand
spaces
in
operation
was
more
to
come
because
thirty
thousand
and
five
hundred
have
already
been
funded.
Here's
the
truth
from
2001
and
2017,
and
this
is
how
it
could
take
time
to
build
spaces.
J
I
Thank
you,
mr
speaker,
and
the
rhetoric
escalates
as
do
the
empty
day
cares.
That
is
what
we're
getting
from
this
minister
continued
rhetoric.
The
pictures
in
the
media
say
it
all.
There's
chairs,
propped
up
on
top
of
these
tables,
there's
mats
on
the
floor.
There's
bookshelves,
there's
everything
except
children
and
educators
in
this
child
care
center.
I
In
estimates
yesterday,
the
minister
admitted
that
they're
only
training
half
of
the
2000
ecs
needed
each
year
so
because
of
the
lack
of
staff,
not
only
are
spaces
that
were
announced
three
years
ago,
not
open,
but
mira,
also
says
quote:
we
don't
have
enough
child
care
providers
today
to
maintain
the
services
that
we
have
right
now.
End
quote:
instead
of
continued
rhetoric
from
this
minister,
will
the
minister
take
action
so
that
more
spaces
don't
close
under
her
watch.
B
J
Thank
you
so
much
honours
people
speaker.
I
really
need
to
remind
the
member
opposite
that
if
the
investment
we've
made
during
the
past
few
years,
including
space
creation,
saving
parents,
millions
of
dollars
in
savings
and
also
supporting
early
childhood
educators
through
our
comprehensive
strategy,
if
those
investments
were
made
even
just
seven
years
ago,
parents
today
would
have
much
more
access
to
affordable
quality,
high
services
child
care,
but
we
are
well
underway:
we're
continuing
to
fund
spaces
to
support
early
childhood
educators
to
support
providers
with
historical
investment
into
child
care.
J
And
when
it
comes
to
supporting
early
childhood
educators
to
fill
the
spaces,
we
understand
it
is
a
challenge.
Early
childhood
educators
have
been
struggling
with
low
wages
and
lack
of
support
for
many
many
years
for
decades,
and
that
is
why,
in
2018
we
wrote
our
comprehensive
strategies
to
support
their
wages,
training
and
also
education.
Our
bursary
program
has
been
really
popular,
with
more
and
more
early
childhood
educators
being
registered
under
our
ece
registry,
our
wage
enhancement,
four
dollar
an
hour
wage
enhancement,
has
moved
up
an
average
wage.
J
B
J
J
A
Thank
you
so
much,
mr
speaker,
so
it's
it's
evidence
that
this
minister
has
no
issue
pumping
out
press
releases
for
imaginary
spaces
or
going
through
a
laundry
list
of
how
to
create
imaginary
spaces.
But
that's
not
what
parents
in
british
columbia
want.
They
want
accessible
and
affordable
child
care
by
the
minister's
own
admission
yesterday,
in
estimates,
less
than
a
third
of
the
spaces
that
have
been
publicly
announced,
just
like
the
ones
in
victoria
are
actually
open,
and
after
five
years
the
ndp
have
created
less
than
5
of
the
200
000
spaces
that
are
required.
A
So
we've
got
lots
of
rhetoric,
but
results
not
so
much
a
young
couple
in
kelowna
says,
and
I
quote,
we
were
on
wait
lists
two
years
before
our
daughter,
paulie
was
born
and
four
years
before
our
son
was
born.
We
thought
it
would
be
enough,
but
our
daughter
will
go
to
kindergarten
before
we
find
a
spot
for
either
end
quote
results
matter,
mr
speaker,
why
are
parents
like
these
stuck
on
wait
list
for
years
under
this
minister
and
this
ndp
government.
J
J
Again,
here
is
the
truth:
we've
funded
and
supported
the
creation
of
over
30
500
spaces
and
about
over
about
10
000
of
those
spaces
are
already
in
operation,
which
is
the
same
amount
that
the
the
previously
liberal
government,
when
they
were
in
government,
has
ever
created
in
16
lone
years,
and
we've
done
that.
We've
tripled
that
and
we've
done
that
in
three
four
short
years
and
of
course
we
have
more
work
to
do
if
the
spaces
were
funded
years
ago.
They
would
have
become
in
operation
by
now
and
serving
many
families.
J
But
here
is
kiosha,
a
parent
who
happens
to
be
an
early
childhood
educator
has
to
say
who
has
been
grateful
for
the
funding
and
the
support
that
our
government
has
been
creating,
so
she
can
stay
in
the
workforce,
but
as
a
parent
she
said,
the
ccfi
funding
and
10
day.
Child
care
space
have
changed
my
life
and
made
it
possible
for
me
to
focus
finances
on
other
day-to-day
living
costs,
and
that
is
what
parents
are
saving
across
the
province.
A
Thank
you
so
much
our
noble
speaker
with
all
due
respect,
I'm
going
to
I'm
going
to
counter
something
that
the
minister
just
said,
because
the
bc
liberals,
actually
in
2015,
created
more
daycare
spaces
in
surrey.
A
Communities
like
surrey
have
half
the
national
average
of
child
care
spaces.
They
need
20,
000
child
care
spaces
just
to
meet
the
canadian
average
melanie
from
surrey
says,
and
I
quote:
I've
been
on
a
wait
list
for
two
years
for
my
kindergarten
child
and
we
still
don't
have
a
spot.
More
than
half
of
my
income
went
to
child
care
last
year.
I'm
very
frustrated
and
I
seriously
don't
know
what
I
will
do.
End
quote:
why
are
so
many
families
like
melanie's
being
left
to
languish
on
waitlists
by
this
ndp
government.
J
J
Honorable
speaker,
during
the
past
few
years,
we've
really
really
worked
hard
to
make
sure
we
accelerate
occasional
spaces.
We
find
parent
savings
for
the
first
times
in
bc.
Street
child
care
cost
is
going
down
now
going
up
in
bcc
street
when
the
opposition,
when
they
were
in
government,
actually
took
away
parent
savings
and
for
early
childhood
educators
and
in
terms
of
supporting
providers.
K
K
That
is
what
I
heard
today.
Surrey
remains
one
of
the
leading
cities
for
overdose
deaths,
and
the
fraser
health
authority
has
the
highest
rate
of
deaths
occurring
in
private
residences.
While
people
continue
to
die.
The
government
has
not
committed
to
meeting
the
may
9th
deadline
to
develop
a
30-60-90
day
action
plan
requested
by
the
overdose
death
review
panel.
L
Thank
you,
mr
speaker,
thank
you
to
the
member
for
the
question
and
for
the
opportunity
to
say
in
this
house
what
we
are
all
saying
to
each
other
and
in
our
communities
is
that
the
continued
loss
of
life
in
this
toxic
drug
public
health
emergency
is
is
tragic.
It
is
unacceptable,
it's
something
we
are
working
as
a
government
every
day
to
combat
and
we
will
not
stop
until
the
public
health
emergency
is
declared
over
and
more
lives
are
saved.
L
I'm
thankful
to
the
people
on
the
ground,
from
family
members,
to
firefighters,
to
first
responders
to
people
working
in
harm
reduction
in
treatment
and
recovery
across
the
sector,
people
working
hard
to
save
lives.
The
report
of
the
of
the
coroner's
death
review
panel
confirms
the
urgency
and
the
breadth
of
the
work
that
we
have
underway
right
now.
L
We
are
waiting
for
a
reply
from
the
federal
minister
on
whether
our
application
will
be
approved,
something
that
the
death
review
panel
confirmed
something
we're
working
on
every
day
to
complete
and
as
the
death
review
panel
reaffirmed
and
confirmed
the
work
to
build
out
the
continuum
of
care
from
harm
reduction
to
to
medication-assisted
treatment,
to
to
inhalation
overdose
consumption
sites,
to
treatment,
to
recovery,
filling
gaps
in
the
system
every
day,
making
new
announcements
of
new
supports
in
surrey
and
other
communities
almost
every
week.