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From YouTube: APRIL 28 2022 Question Period
Description
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
A
A
They
want
to
set
up
a
family
medical
practice
right
here
in
victoria,
but
fear
that
they
will
have
to
leave
town
because
they
can
no
longer
afford
to
live
here,
and
I
quote
it's
scary,
looking
at
what
the
price
points
are
for
rentals
and
for
owning
a
house
here,
even
for
a
family
physician
in
the
community,
it's
a
bit
scary
to
look
at
not
just
the
rental
market,
but
the
longer
term
as
well.
End
quote.
A
C
Thank
you.
Thank
you
very
much,
mr
speaker,
and
I
appreciate
the
member
I'm
highlighting
this.
This
particular
situation,
and
it's
it's
one
that
we
are
certainly
seeing
not
just
here
in
british
columbia,
we're
seeing
it
right
across
canada,
we're
seeing
it
right
around
the
globe.
We
are
seeing
people
being
more
and
more
challenged
as
we
see
the
the
inflation
rate
continue
to
to
to
rise.
C
What
I
also
want
to
say
to
the
member
is
that
since
2017,
we
have
been
paying
very
particular
attention
on
the
housing
file,
we
are
continuing
to
work
with
local
governments
to
get
more
product
and,
mr
speaker,
we
have
brought
forward
this
seven
billion
dollars
to
build
the
kind
of
housing
that
british
columbians
need.
It's
a
ten-year
plan
we
have
over
32,
000
homes
right
now
being
being
built
or
and
being
people
have
been
moving
in,
and
we're
going
to
continue
to
do
that.
Important
work.
A
Housing's
never
been
more
unaffordable
and
now
even
a
doctor
and
a
school
teacher
can't
afford
to
live
here.
Yet.
Just
this
week,
the
minister
of
finance
administ
admitted
that
not
only
will
her
cooling
off
period
idea
do
nothing,
absolutely
nothing
to
address
affordability,
struggling
home
buyers
actually
might
risk
losing
their
down
payment
or
deposit,
so
ndp
fees
and
penalties
will
not
help
young,
first-time
home
buyers
afford
to
get
into
a
home.
C
You,
mr
speaker,
well
you
know,
I
I'm
listening
very
carefully
to
the
the
members
question
and-
and
we
have
certainly
and
inherited
a
a
challenging
housing
situation.
We've
been.
We
have
been
here
for
a
number
of
years
working
diligently
on
the
housing
file,
which
is
why
we
brought
forward
seven
billion
dollars
at
our
initially
in
2017,
and
we
were
rolling
out
that
kind
of
housing.
But,
mr
speaker,
we've
done
more
than
that.
We've
started
the
housing
hub.
C
C
I
think
I
think
british
columbians,
I
think
I
do
think
british
columbians,
mr
speaker
appreciate
that
building
housing
does
take
time.
It
doesn't
happen
overnight.
We've
been
working
diligently
with
local
governments,
we're
continuing
to
look
to
make
progress
on
our
collaboration
with
local
governments
to
move
more
quickly
here
in
victoria.
I
have
to
give
them
a
shout
out.
C
They
are
moving
and
changing
how
they
are
moving
quickly
to
allow
certain
kinds
of
housing
to
be
built
without
it
getting
caught
up
we're
hearing
other
local
governments
here
on
the
island
interested
in
in
following
their
lead.
That's
making
a
difference.
It's
through
collaboration
with
local
governments.
It's
with
working
with
bc
housing,
it's
working
collectively
with
the
development
community
and
they're
very
excited
about
what
we're
doing
at
the
housing
hub
and
there's
more
that's
going
to
be
coming
online,
mr
speaker,
to
help
relieve
some
of
this
pressure.
D
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
Well,
we've
just
heard
how
high
rental
costs
and
high
inflation
rates
are
are
impacting
the
ability
to
even
open
a
family
practice
in
victoria,
but
now
we
also
have
a
new
report
that
says
those
same
factors
are
going
to
dramatically
impact
low
income
people
in
bc
the
most
over
this
coming
year
and
the
next
couple
of
years
the
average
household
this
year
will
be
facing
an
extra
two
thousand
dollars
a
year
in
interest
payments,
as
interest
rates
start
to
rise.
D
It
has
now
been
a
week
since
the
premier
said
he
had
directed
the
finance
minister
to,
and
I
quote,
bring
forward
initiatives
to
assist
with
inflation,
we'll
see
how
that
goes.
End
quote
well.
The
people
would
like
to
know
what
are
these
new
initiatives?
Will
they
offset
the
new
two
thousand
dollars
a
year
that
are
going
to
impact
people's
home,
and
when
will
the
public
actually
see
these
initiatives?
C
You
very
much,
mr
speaker.
Well,
we've
been
at
reducing
costs
for
average
british
columbians
since
2017.
Mr
speaker,
this
isn't
a
new
actions
for
us.
We
have
been
at
it
since
we
formed
government
and
we
started
with
eliminating
msp.
Remember
that
regressive
tax
that
the
folks
on
the
other
side
doubled.
C
The
other
thing
we
did,
mr
speaker,
is
we
brought
forward
the
child
opportunity
benefit,
that's
up
to
2
600
a
year
for
a
family
with
two
children
and
that's
making
a
difference
for
british
columbians
every
day.
Mr
speaker,
we've
lowered
car
insurance.
Remember
that
dumpster
fire
that
the
other,
the
other
folks
set
on
fire.
We
we
took
care
of
that,
mr
speaker,
and
we
not
only
have
we
been
able
to
give
several
rebates
because
it's
been
fixed,
but
people
are
paying
on
average
500
a
year
less
on
their
on
their
currency.
C
Free
transit
for
children,
mr
speaker,
free
transit
for
children
and,
again
that's
saving
up
to
650
a
year
for
british
columbians
and
mr
speaker.
We
reduce
child
care
costs
and
that's
and
by
cutting
fees
by
50
by
the
end
of
this
year,
for
those
children
under
the
age
of
five.
That
is
a
huge
huge
savings
for
british
columbians.
D
D
C
Mr
speaker,
I
have
to
say
it's
it's
sort
of
surprising
to
hear
the
folks
on
the
other
side
talk
about
low-income
families
when
they,
when
they
kept
minimum
wage
from
growing
when
they
refused
even
the
senior
supplement.
They
did
nothing
with
it.
Mr
speaker,
for
years
we've
doubled
it
we've
increased
social
assistance
rates,
but
I
have
to
say,
mr
speaker
and
the
members
opposite
know.
These
are
global
challenges.
C
C
There
is
concern
about
the
rising
cost
of
necessities
for
like
like
food
and
housing,
and
we
know
that
it's
hardest
on
people
who
are
already
struggling
to
make
ends
meet
the
members
opposite
also
know
full
well
that
the
federal
government
and
the
bank
of
canada
have
the
tools
to
impact
inflation
directly,
but
we're
going
to
keep
doing
what
we
can
in
order
to
help
reduce
costs
for
british
columbians.
E
Yeah,
thank
you,
mr
speaker.
This
bc
ndp
government
hopes
that
corporations
like
telus
will
step
in
and
fix
the
growing
primary
health
care
crisis
through
their
efforts
that
they
frame
as
social
capitalism
are
really
just
profiteering
from
the
delivery
of
health
care.
Now,
let's
look
at
another
crisis.
That's
facing
british
columbians
housing
renters
are
suffering.
E
Bc
has
the
highest
rents
in
canada,
and
vancouver
and
victoria
rent
has
jumped
20
percent
in
the
last
six
months.
There's
not
enough
supply
and
what
is
available
is
excruciatingly
expensive.
I
was
stunned
to
find
an
article
that
assured
me
that
if
I
can't
afford
housing,
I
should
just
buy
into
a
reit.
E
E
Inconveniences
such
as
quote
hard
to
please
tenants,
end
quote
and
here's
a
kicker
investors
who
purchased
canadian
residential
reits
since
2012
have
received
a
220
percent
return
through
you,
honorable
speaker
to
the
minister
of
finance
or
the
minister
of
housing.
Real
estate.
Investment
trusts
are
generating
huge
returns
for
their
shareholders
by
financializing
our
housing
stock,
making
housing
more
and
more
unaffordable.
F
And,
and
thank
you
to
the
member
for
raising
this
important
issue,
we've
seen
really
escalated,
reit
activity
in
the
crd
in
the
victoria
area,
and
we
expect
to
see
that
accelerating
in
different
parts
of
the
province
reits
have
unfair
tax
benefits
that
other
british
columbians
don't
enjoy
when
it
comes
to
buying
housing.
These
are
tax
benefits
that
are
provided
by
the
federal
government.
I've
expressed
my
concern
directly
to
the
federal
housing
minister
about
this
issue.
F
He
says
that
the
federal
government
is
going
to
be
addressing
that
issue
and
I
encourage
them
to
do
it
quickly,
the
financialization
of
our
housing
market.
We
know
where
that
goes,
we've
seen
it
in
2008
in
the
united
states,
when
investment
in
housing
gets
out
of
hand,
and
it's
not
adequately
policed.
What
we
need
to
be
investing
is
in
is
in
the
building
of
affordable
housing,
which
is
what
our
government
is
doing,
and
we
can't
have
it
undermined
by
federal
tax
benefits.
F
For
for
these
investment
vehicles
that
make
life
less
affordable
for
british
columbians.
E
It
becomes
a
problematic,
mr
speaker,
when
we're
building
more
housing
supply
and
yet
that
housing
supply
is
vulnerable
to
corporations,
purchasing
it
and
driving
the
cost
of
rent
up
for
british
columbians
researchers
at
the
university
of
waterloo
estimate
that
between
20
to
30
percent
of
canada's
rental
apartment
market
is
owned
by
institutional
landlords.
Reits
they
own.
Nearly
two
hundred
thousand
rental
units
in
countrywide,
cbc's
fifth
estate,
reported
on
the
devastating
impact
that
reits
are
having
for
renters.
E
This
was
there
was
story
after
story
of
people
losing
their
homes
due
to
these
corporations,
buying
aging
apartment
blocks
and
renovating
them.
One
quote
stuck
with
me,
and
it
goes
back
to
the
so-called
social
capitalism
that
I
raised
yesterday
in
question
period,
and
this
morning,
michael
brooks
ceo
of
real
pac.
An
association
representing
the
largest
institutional
landlords
across
the
country
was
willing
to
be
more
honest
about
what
the
business
model
actually
is
quote.
E
Everyone
in
the
private
sector
is
self-interested
in
maintaining
and
growing
their
income,
and
they
all
want
to
be
seen
as
contributing
to
the
solution
and
not
being
part
of
the
problem.
However,
they've
got
their
own
obligations.
They've
got
their
own
investors.
Their
own
pensioners
to
fund
they've
got
to
manage
costs
deeply
affordable
housing
is
a
public
good.
The
private
sector
is
not
primarily
in
the
business
of
providing
a
public
good
through
you,
honorable
speaker
to
the
minister
of
housing.
E
It
is
one
step
to
to
talk
to
the
federal
government
about
changing
the
tax
laws.
What
is
this
provincial
government
doing
with
the
authorities
that
we
have
to
ensure
that
reits,
as
the
minister
said,
do
not
continue
to
buy
up
rental
blocks
here
in
the
greater
victoria
area,
the
capital
region,
the
lower
mainland
and
across
british
columbia?.
F
Minister
of
housing,
thank
you
very
much.
Honorable
speaker
this
in
its
preamble.
The
member
made
a
number
of
assertions
about
the
minister
of
health
and
and
tell
us
I
just
want
to
remind
the
member
and
all
members
of
this
house
that
the
minister
of
health
has
been
on
the
front
lines
of
ensuring
our
public
health
care
system
is
protected
from
profiteering.
F
F
I
couldn't
agree
more
with
the
members
concern
about
speculation,
financialization
of
our
housing
market
and-
and
it
also
complicates
our
job
at
the
provincial
level,
when
we're
looking
at
partnering.
F
Part
of
my
mandate
letter
is
to
work
with
the
non-profit
housing
associations
to
find
opportunities
to
acquire
privately
owned
rental
housing
and
to
ensure
affordability
and
where
it
and
where
it
needs
to
be
redeveloped,
that's
redeveloped
in
a
way
that
protects
tenants
and
increases
the
number
of
units
available
on
sites
that
makes
it
harder
for
the
province
when
we're
competing
with
money
from
around
the
world.
We
started
this
conversation
in
2016
around
international
money
coming
into
our
housing
market.
I
know
the
opposition
at
the
time
was
concerned
about
it.
F
They
seem
less
interested
now
about
speculation
in
the
housing
market
than
they
used
to
be,
but
we
remain
concerned
about
it
and
it's
not
just
international
money
coming
in
through
individual
buyers,
it's
money
from
across
north
america
through
reits.
We
need
the
federal
government
to
step
up
on
this
and
we
will
continue
to
pressure
them,
but
we're
also
putting
in
place
rules
that
landlords
that
operate
in
bc,
whether
they're,
reits
or
anyone
else
restricting
their
ability
to
evict
people
for
renovations.
G
Thank
you,
mr
speaker
bc.
Autism
advocacy
has
asked
parents
to
describe
how
they
felt
about
the
ndp's
consultation
on
the
autism
funding
clawback,
and
I
quote
the
most
commonly
submitted
response
from
our
survey
about
how
parents
and
service
providers
felt
about
the
information
being
given
was
traumatizing
and
the
most
commonly
referred
to
word.
Regarding
your
small
table,
discussions
was
gaslighting.
H
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker,
and
it
is
very
important
to
be
listening
to
families.
Honourable
speaker,
I've
been
hearing
from
families
for
many
years
now.
My
ministry
has
been
many
years
that
so
many
children
have
been
left
behind
for
too
long.
So
we
started
formal
engagement
across
the
province
in
2019.
H
We've
continued
that
ever
since,
and
we
are
continuing
to
speak
to
families
and
we
will
continue
to
engage
with
them
and
to
work
in
partnership
with
families
of
all
children
and
youth,
with
support
needs
and
with
service
providers
and
with
community
agencies
and
with
communities
and
with
indigenous
partners
as
well.
Honourable
speaker,
we
are
absolutely
committed
to
working
with
everybody
to
make
sure
that
we
get
this
transformation
right.
G
Speaker,
parents
have
been
trying
to
meet
with
this
ndp
government
for
six
months,
and
this
minister
has
not
been
listening
and
in
fact
parents
will
be
going
to
protest,
ndp
offices
tomorrow
and
I'll
read.
Another
quote
without
withholding
information
and
not
providing
answers
to
our
questions
provides
further
damage,
unnecessary
stress
and
anxiety
on
families,
caregivers
parents
and
children.
End
quote:
when
will
this
minister
stop
with
the
games
and
actually
start
listening
to
the
families
to
the
parents
of
these
children
and
end
this
claw
back.
H
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker,
and
thank
you
to
the
question.
We
have
been
meeting
with
families.
Honourable
speaker,
we've
been
me:
we've
been
hearing
from
families
for
years
telling
us
that
for
far
too
long
too
many
children
have
been
left
behind
and
we've
done
engagement
with
families.
There's
a
survey,
that's
open
at
the
moment,
honorable
speaker
in
five
different
languages,
we're
finding
different
ways
to
engage
with
families
and
to
listen
to
them,
and
we'll
continue
to
do
that.
H
Honorable
speaker,
I
will
be
making
sure
that
that
I'm
available
to
speak
to
families-
and
I
know
that
my
staff
has
done
so
as
well.
I've
continued
to
meet
with
advocacy
groups
and
service
groups
over
the
last
18
months.
Since
I
have
the
honor
of
being
in
this
position,
we
need
to
make
sure
that
we're
getting
the
system
right.
I
I
Minister
needs
to
engage
in
a
meaningful
way
with
parents
of
children
with
autism,
but
today
I
also
want
to
raise
another
issue
with
this
minister:
a
heartbreak-breaking,
horrific
tragic
situation,
seventeen-year-old
trayvon,
chalifou
desjarlais,
died
on
september.
The
18th
2020
in
a
government
contracted
care
home.
H
Well,
thank
you,
honourable
speaker,
and
thank
you
to
the
member
for
the
question
and
I
agree.
This
is
a
tragic
situation.
My
heart
goes
out
to
the
family
and
I
send
my
condolences
to
everybody
who
knew
this
young
man
and,
as
the
member
acknowledges,
it's
not
possible
for
me
to
speak
on
particular
situations
of
a
unique
individual.
H
However,
I
can
assure
the
member
and
this
house
that
whenever
a
tragedy
like
this
happens,
the
ministry
does
conduct
a
review
and
our
goal
is
always
to
make
sure
that
children
and
youth
are
kept
safe
and
are
kept
healthy
when
there
is
a
review.
If
there
are
deficiencies,
then
an
action
plan
is
created
and
that
is
monitored
very
closely
by
the
provincial
director
of
child
welfare.
Our
aim
is
to
make
sure
that
all
children
and
youth
are
able
to
stay
safe
and
well
cared
for
and
healthy
in
our
care.
I
I
There
have
been
reports
this
week
that
those
charged
with
looking
after
trayvon
were
verbally
abusive
neglectful
and
that
he
was
often
left
alone
in
a
small
bedroom
for
days.
At
a
time,
cook
p
judy
wilson
of
the
union
of
bc.
Indian
chief
says-
and
I
quote
there
were
warning
signs,
the
failing
audits.
I
I
I
understand
the
process
of
review,
but
I
also
understand
a
17
year
old
young
man
was
found
dead
in
a
contracted
care
home.
That
requires
action.
Now,
what
specific
steps
has
the
ministry
taken
or
put
in
place
to
ensure
that
there
is
protection
in
place
for
british
colombia's
most
vulnerable
children.
H
Oh
thank
you,
honourable
speaker,
and
thank
you
to
the
member
for
the
for
the
question,
because
this
is
absolutely
critical.
It's
very
important
that
children
and
youth
who
are
in
our
care
receive
the
best
care
and
are
nurtured
and
supported
to
fulfill
their
potential
that
they're
safe
and
that
they're
healthy
we've
known
for
many
years
that
the
system
of
in
care
services
has
not
been
adequate.
H
That
we
need
to
make
sure
that
we
transform
the
system
so
that,
when
children
and
youth
do
come
into
the
care
system
that
they
actually
receive
in
care
services
that
meet
their
needs
that
are
designed
to
meet
and
and
respond
to.
Why
they've
come
into
care
and
be
able
to
help
them
achieve
their
goals
and
help
them
to
create
a
future
for
themselves
that
is
healthy
and
that
is
safe.
H
We've
been
working
with
our
partners,
we're
going
to
transform
the
system
across
the
whole
of
the
province
and
we're
making
sure
that
changes
are
considered
and
that
all
services
delivered
are
putting
the
child
and
youth
at
the
center
of
their
care.
We're
making
sure
that
all
children
and
youth
stay
connected
to
their
family,
to
their
community
and
to
their
culture
and
making
sure
that
we
minimize
any
disruption
in
our
in
the
system
because
we're
continuing
to
care
for
vulnerable
children
youth
while
we're
making
this
significant
provincial
change.
Thank
you.
J
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
Reviews
are
too
late
and
actions
are
overdue.
This
minister
continues
to
have
the
same
answer,
regardless
of
what
the
question
is.
Of
course,
we
want
to
have
children
at
the
center,
but
this
is
about
a
systemic
failure
in
the
child
welfare
system.
Under
this
government,
the
independent
representative
for
children
and
youth
says
what
happened
to
trayvon
is
a
canary
in
the
coal
mine
and
that
things
are
worse
than
ever,
and
I
will
quote
her.
J
We
hear
from
youth
living
in
group
homes
all
the
time,
including
where
perpetrators
of
sexual
abuse
are
housed
with
victims
of
sexual
abuse.
This
is
a
system
that
continues
to
fail
them.
Can
the
minister
tell
the
house
why
the
system,
after
all,
the
warnings
and
all
the
reports
why
this
system
continues
to
fail
these
vulnerable
children.
H
You,
honourable
speaker,
and
it
is
really
important
to
make
sure
that
the
system
serves
our
vulnerable
children
and
youth.
We
know
that
children,
youth
who
are
in
the
care
system
have
been
traumatized
for
some
reason
and
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we
put
them
at
the
center
and
we
provide
them
with
a
trauma-informed,
nurturing
caring
support
and
help
launch
them
into
a
successful
future
where
they're
able
to
thrive.
We
know
that
challenges
with
the
in-care
system
have
been
building
up
over
decades.
H
H
So
we've
been
increasing
out
of
care
placement
so
where
the
significant
action
has
been
taken
in
relation
to
a
child
or
youth,
we've
actually
been
able
to
go
to
their
community
and
say:
is
there
an
anti?
Is
there
a
grandma?
Is
there
a
friend
of
the
family
who's
able
to
take
care
of
this
young
person
while
we
build
a
safety
plan,
so
we
are
making
a
difference
in
the
lives
of
children
and
youth?
Thank
you,
speaker.
K
Well,
the
2019
government
response
to
the
auditor
general
report
highlighted
a
review
by
ernst
young
related
to
contracted
care
homes.
K
K
End
quote
yet
here
we
have
an
audit
copy
of
an
audit
that
was
conducted
between
october
2018
to
july
2019.
That
proves
that
that
simply
was
not
true
and
that
the
government
is
actually
failing
to
meet.
Even
this
basic
standard,
page
23
of
the
audit
says-
and
I
quote,
the
compliance
rate
for
this
measure
was
seven
percent.
H
H
What
is
really
important
to
us
as
a
ministry
is
that
we
see
that
children
are
safe,
that
they're
developing
that
they're
thriving,
that
their
well-being
is
is
secured,
that
they're
connected
to
family
and
community
and
culture
that
their
cultural
needs
and
spiritual
needs
are
met.
And
that's
what
we're
doing
honourable
speakers,
so
we
are
actually
redesigning
our
tools
of
how
we
evaluate
services
that
are
delivered
to
children,
youth,
so
we're
focusing
on
those
outcomes
for
those
children,
youth
and
that
we're
able
to
launch
them.