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From YouTube: MAY 9 2023 Statements Roly Russell
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
4th Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
boundaries
will
come
in.
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker,
I
start
with
a
quote
from
Danielle
rubart
and
her
colleagues,
Federal
policies
and
programs
are
typically
written
with
Place,
neutral
intent
or
without
considering
how
they
might
affect
places
differently,
depending
on
population
compositions
or
Geographic
contexts.
On
average
rural
areas
are
older,
sicker
and
poorer
and
have
work
weaker,
Healthcare
infrastructures
than
urban
areas.
We
should
anticipate
that
place.
Neutral
policies
would
impact
health
and
aging
differently
in
rural
versus
urban
areas.
A
Our
Rural
and
remote
communities
are
not
little
vancouvers
and
most
don't
want
to
be.
Nor
are
we
beholden
to
only
forests,
Farms,
fish
or
oil
and
gas
or
minerals
to
be
the
definition
of
our
identities.
Our
rural
communities
will
always
be
leading
the
charge
with
innovation
in
the
natural
resource
sectors
and
in
securing
more
value
from
those
raw
products
to
fuel
our
Province,
but
they
are
rapidly
becoming
more
diverse,
socially
and
economically,
and
have
brand
Visions
for
what
they
want
to
become.
A
The
unintentional
status
quo
of
this
place
in
creating
Place
neutral
policies
is
creation
of
policy
that
is
inordinately
informed
by
Metro
realities,
which
is
why
it's
so
important
to
see
shifts
like
that
announced
by
Shannon
Salter
Deputy
ministers,
the
premier
earlier
this
year
that
effective
April.
First,
all
job
postings
will
be
open
to
people
in
any
BC
Community,
where
the
hiring
Ministry
has
an
office
and
any
restrictions
will
require
Deputy
Minister
approval.
This
isn't
just
a
win
for
our
public
service
for
personal
employment
flexibility.
A
It's
a
win
for
our
ability
to
ground
truth,
our
policy
development
process
in
a
more
representative
cross-section
of
BC,
and
it's
a
win
for
Rural
resiliency
for
wine
policy,
for
example.
Understanding
the
realities
of
place
is
enormously
important,
as
Leslie
at
Noble.
Ridge
knows
all
too
well.
This
internal
change
is
one
of
the
eight
key
opportunities
identified
by
the
BC
Rural
Center
as
a
way
to
help
support
rural
communities.
It
matters
for
people
for
policy
and
for
resilient
rural
economies
and
we're
getting
it
done.
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker.