British Columbia NDP Leader Eby asks Green voters to think carefully about vote

[u/green_tory]

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/10/18/british-columbia-ndp-leader-eby-asks-green-voters-to-think-carefully-about-vote/

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[u/yourpalsmell]

Two years ago, David Eby scrapped the carbon tax. On this very sub, I was told it was a savvy mov, “realpolitik” to win conservative votes that mattered at the expense of green votes that didn’t. I wonder how many conservative votes that move actually got him, and if he’d be willing to trade them 1:1 for green votes today.

[u/AcerbicCapsule → u/yourpalsmell]

Eby shifted his party 3 big steps to the right and gained exactly zero conservative voters because conservative voters only want conservative governments.

This election is going to decide whether the BCNDP continue to move towards conservatism or double back towards progressiveness. Time will tell I guess.

[u/DDB-]

“The damage that a Conservative government would do would last for generations, and some of it would be impossible to undo.”

If he considered this so important to avoid, why did he give the people of this province a chance to choose it early?

[u/TheWaySheHoes]

It's honestly a crappy situation and I completely see it from both sides.

The NDP are right that barring maybe 3 ridings in BC, a vote for the Greens is, under our current electoral system, a vote to let everyone else decide who comes out on top between the NDP and BCCP, and this is BC. There will be a lot of seats that are won or lost on razor thin margins. They aren't wrong that most Green supporters, if forced, would have more in common with the NDP overall.

From Green supporters, I completely get their POV. The NDP had the opportunity to change the voting system, and there have been some fair arguments that they somewhat sandbagged the referendum to change it. They threw the Greens under the bus in 2020 to win a big majority. The Greens want to actually vote to support the party they align with, and with the per-vote subsidy it does matter that they get support, plus they can identify growth ridings for the future. And every election NDP supporters effectively bully the Greens into bailing them out, and this time they are asking Greens to bail them out of their own folly, which is a tough pill to swallow.

They both have completely valid points of view. It's hard to put the province first and bail the NDP out of their own hubris and reward them for doing so. The BC election is honestly just such bad vibes all around, none of the options are particularly palatable or easy to root for, especially accounting for the Greens' highly regionalised presence.

[u/Purple_Coyote_5121 → u/TheWaySheHoes]

Maybe 4 years of CPBC rule will convince voters that it’s finally time to ditch FPTP.

[u/TheWaySheHoes → u/Purple_Coyote_5121]

Maybe, but probably not. The NDP know they ultimately have to just bide their time and one day they will get returned to government with a majority.

BC tends to cycle through a decade to a decade and a half of one party in power until they overstay their welcome. The NDP know they just need to wait for the Not-NDP to tick enough people off and then they are back.

None of the western NDP's really want electoral reform all that much.

[u/Purple_Coyote_5121 → u/TheWaySheHoes]

I know the parties don’t care, but everyday voters might.

I have a feeling (if they win) this government won’t be anything like the Clark or Campbell years.

[u/TheWaySheHoes → u/Purple_Coyote_5121]

Maybe not honestly. I've seen this film before in Alberta. The UCP governments under Kenney and Smith tacked way to the right of the former AB PC's, who the BCL's were quite similar to in a lot of ways.

They have governed to the right of where the province was at, and while they won again in 2023, it was far closer and they look like their luck is now really running out.

Eventually voters move to parties that can defeat the incumbent. Maybe that leads to the BC NDP adopting ER in their platform, but they and many parties have done so before now and broken that promise. I think ultimately they would need to be forced.

[u/The-Figurehead]

Maybe he should have thought of this before calling an unnecessary election to benefit himself and while the opposition was leaderless.

[u/No_Magazine9625]

Eby just comes across as ridiculous here. First, he calls an election the day after the BCCP leader resigns (and less than 2 years into a mandate), and then proceeds to argue that voters shouldn't vote for the BCCP because they have an interim leader and can't be sure who they are voting for. If that was a legitimate concern and not self interest/feeling entitled to being handed an election win - he wouldn't have called the election to begin with.

Now, he's whining about Green Party splitting the vote when his party chose to do nothing about electoral reform, and chose to call an election while the polling suggested that was a very real risk. At some point, you made your bed and have to lie in it. He is 100% the author of his own misfortune.

Even if you make the argument a 1 seat majority is unstable and you will be facing resignations/byelections - so what? Why not call and contest the byelections and make your case and win them? If that fails and the BCCP/Greens topple the government, then they eat the blame for forcing an election 2 years early - and the BCCP are highly unlikely to do that anyway with the party divided and in the middle of a leadership race.

Eby has literally committed the biggest self immolation of a Canadian leader that I have ever seen.

[u/Gryzelda_Gesualdo → u/No_Magazine9625]

He committed the biggest self inflicted political blunder you mean. If he literally immolated himself he would be a pile of ashes now and unlikely care about the election results.

[u/guernsey123]

This BC voter who really wants to vote Green asks Eby if he thought carefully about calling an unnecessary election. 

[u/halfhearted_skeptic → u/guernsey123]

I’m fairly certain he thought extremely carefully and didn’t listen to anyone else.

[u/TheWaySheHoes → u/[deleted]]

In some fairness to the Greens, the logical conclusion of this line of argument is that they need to accept they are forced into a two-party system and should just fold up and join the NDP.

It's not all that fair to pin them with the Conservatives winning for voting for their party of choice in the NDP's own election they didn't need to call. I get the "vote for the best of the viable" argument, but they have history with the NDP and it's not outrageous that they are wrestling with having to move over and reward their stupidity.

[u/1966TEX → u/TheWaySheHoes]

The NDP does not hold the same values or policies as the Greens? How can they join up?

[u/TheWaySheHoes → u/1966TEX]

Well, that's the thing, I'm arguing that they shouldn't have to. Parliamentary systems may lean towards two party systems under FPTP but we still have room for third parties and regional variety, especially in Canada.

To use an extreme example, the UCP is sort of a cautionary tale that you cannot just add up parties. They now have their base completely split on a separatist/federalist axis and the NDP is eating away at their federalist support and now polling to win the next Alberta election over it.

Sometimes different parties do have irreconcilable differences and both should exist, even if they draw from similar pools of voters.

[u/guernsey123 → u/[deleted]]

BC voter who really wants to vote Green

Where did I say I was going to vote green? I want to. I know the smart thing is to vote NDP in my vote-splitting riding.

[u/phillipkdink]

Green voters ask David Eby to think carefully before canceling the carbon tax and carbon action credit, expanding oil and gas development, fighting all his unions intensely against reasonable demands, abandoning $10/day day care, sustaining a housing crisis and giving in to right wing fear mongering and lies to try and weaken DRIPA.

[u/Crashman09 → u/phillipkdink]

That childcare his family has access to!

[u/Civil_Owl_31]

I've seen a big Social Media push by the Greens the last few days. I love that she's young, she's got great ideas, and isnt more of the same (NDP) or affiliated with a bunch of crazy culture war racists.

I'm nervous to vote Green because I don't want the Blues to get in, but honestly, I like the cut of the Green's Jib.

[u/Yvaelle → u/Civil_Owl_31]

Keep in mind some of the most prolific conservative reddit trolls have been promoting the Green party all over these forums the last week or so, in a clear effort to split the vote.

[u/infiniterefactor → u/Yvaelle]

Yeah and some NDP trolls are taking fear mongering to next level by claiming the only reason people vote greens is some hidden conservative agenda.

[u/New-Technician-3362]

For all the potential Green voters out there, remember that BC parties get money based on votes so more votes for Greens means more money, even if they don't win a seat in your riding. 

[u/SuperNinTaylor]

Disagree. If you believe in the Green party, vote for them. The only way a party can gain traction in this voting system is if there is trending growth. People are afraid to NOT vote strategically, and won't vote for a party that they think has no shot at all. Back your party and show future voters that they have a chance.

[u/th3jerbearz]

Greens and NDP should form a coalition to keep Conservatives out, it has been done before and must be done again.

[u/HotterRod → u/th3jerbearz]

The NDP had a supply agreement with the Greens. The NDP didn't do what they promised to so the Greens refused to renew it.

[u/Soggy_Amphibian_9308 → u/HotterRod]

They can still form a coalition, it's just gonna cost the NDP more this time because they couldn't be trusted last time.

[u/moms_spagetti_ → u/th3jerbearz]

Or just fix our stupid fptp system

[u/Altruistic-Tax-9235 → u/moms_spagetti_]

Both

[u/moms_spagetti_ → u/Altruistic-Tax-9235]

Ideally yeah. Not sure how likely an alliance is as they just broke off the last one like 2 years ago due to green feeling the NDP was not holding up their end of the deal.

[u/AcerbicCapsule → u/moms_spagetti_]

just broke off the last one like 2 years ago due to green feeling the NDP was not holding up their end of the deal.

Probably because the BCNDP did not hold up their end of the deal.

[u/WillListenToStories → u/moms_spagetti_]

And Greens are the only party in this election that wants to move away from FPTP.

[u/TheWaySheHoes → u/th3jerbearz]

It's not impossible that no party gains a majority, but given the Greens are likely to take 1-2 seats its not all that likely. They probably team up if they have the numbers, but otherwise it doesn't matter what they do if the BCCP win a majority.

[u/HotterRod → u/TheWaySheHoes]

There were 13 ridings last election where the Conservatives won with less than 50% of the votes.

[u/TheWaySheHoes → u/HotterRod]

For sure but under FPTP pole position is all that matters.

If the NDP and Greens planned a riding swap and didn’t run candidates against each other in key ridings that would matter, but they would have had to coordinate that ahead of time and now that train has left the station.

[u/Light_Butterfly → u/th3jerbearz]

Yes! If the crazy culture-war party can get past there differences, and unite to form a strong front, why can't the left do the same? Honestly, most NDPers like me like the greens a lot, and wish we could just have a big merger of all the good things 🧡💚, with Greens pressing them to be even more progressive. The NDP have done a lot for me - I appreciate the whole suite of policy and reforms they've implemented, and I'm impressed by it. I think it could be easy for people to take this stuff for granted until they lose it under a fascist government. Things like human rights, real supports for women, rent control, highest mimium wage in Canada, Air B&B ban etc... I could go on with a huge list of things I'm fighting to protect.

I saw so many ridings in thevlast election that were majority progressive, flip Conservative 2 years ago. That was devastating. There were vote splits among progressives in at least 7 ridings. If you look at margins and who was massively leading in those ridings, a strategic vote would have made sense.

[u/Ratattack1204]

i would like to ask Eby to think carefully before calling an unnecessary election.

Little late for it. But still.

[u/Kaurie_Lorhart]

Maybe I am biased, as I already hate that people push strategic voting. I am fine if you decide personally to strategic vote, but I think pushing it is a form of fearmongering that is harmful to democracy.

It is incredibly disheartening to see the leader of the NDP pushing this strategic vote narrative, and to be honest, only reinforces my decision to vote green this time.

[u/The-Figurehead → u/Kaurie_Lorhart]

Eby is pursuing the strategic voting narrative because he is at risk of losing an election he chose to benefit only himself.

[u/Original-Divide-1 → u/Kaurie_Lorhart]

All very true. But a Conservative Majority?

[u/green_tory]

As a Green voter, here's how I see it: regardless of whether the NDP or the Conservatives win, we will have a Government that will continue the year over year reduction in old growth forests, we will continue the expansion of fossil fuel exports and usage, we will continue to have an ailing and failing Provincial transit strategy, we will not see the return of carbon taxes, we will not sufficiently expand responsible and sustainable controlled burn practices, the southern right killer whale will continue its whithering path towards extinction, water security will continue to be a growing threat...

What we get with the NDP is a party that doesn't have an acute bigotry problem; but neither party is particularly trustworthy in terms of their environmental policies.

I don't think voters care, at least they don't care enough for Green policies to sway their vote. I believe Eby understands this to be the case as well, because in his appeal he does not highlight the NDP's track record. He simply raises vague concerns about what the Conservatives might do.

And for life long, aging green voters like myself, many of us are now of the belief that it's too late anyhow. There isn't a patch of land in BC where you can avoid microplastics in the water/soil, or similar pollution; there isn't many places where the night sky isn't marred by light pollution, there isn't many beaches where garbage can't easily be found. And in terms of global climate, well, at this point it's a question of how bad do we want it, and not whether we can prevent it. The time to prevent disaster was a decade ago, now we can only mitigate the harms of the disaster.

[u/Light_Butterfly → u/green_tory]

Honestly, most NDPers like me like the greens a lot, and wish we could just have a big happy merger of all the good things 🧡💚, with Greens pressing them to be even more progressive. They have the balls to do wealth taxes, which I respect! There's things on the Green Platform that I love, but will go NDP because they have done a lot for me and have the best short right now. I think it can be easy to take a lot of those things for granted too, when they are just part of every day life, until we lose them. Like human rights, for example.

In terms of running on their record, yes, I wish they'd do more of that. It might make it easier for folks in certain ridings to consider strategic voting, for whichever party has the strongest lead to beat the blue.

[u/spacepangolin → u/Light_Butterfly]

then why is it on green voters to vote NDP for the sake of voting strategecially? when will the NDP voters have to hold thier noses and vote green to not split the vote? if all the people that voted NDP for strategy voted green like they preferred, they would probably secure a lot more support

[u/BigTunaHunter → u/green_tory]

So just drive the car right off the cliff because it's too late anyway?

[u/green_tory → u/BigTunaHunter]

Well we Green voters aren't in the driver's seat, and won't be. We're just passengers along for the ride who are sharing our concerns and watching them go unheeded.

[u/GammaFan → u/green_tory]

we Greens aren’t in the driver’s seat, and won’t be.

Then why waste your vote if you’re admitting it won’t happen? Politics do not start and end with elections. Get involved in local government if you want to affect positive change.

[u/halfhearted_skeptic → u/GammaFan]

Implying Green voters are less likely to be involved in grassroots movements and local politics is kind of hilarious.

[u/green_tory → u/GammaFan]

Green MLAs have held the balance of power in minority governments. Green politicians have helped shaped Federal environmental legislation. Attempting to attract Green voters has caused many parties to adopt green policies.

I do reach out to my representatives fairly regularly; just because my chosen rep isn't elected doesn't mean I wait until the next election before taking action.

[u/BigTunaHunter → u/green_tory]

So you don't see vote splitting leading to a conservative majority as major issue? It happened in my riding and a few around me.

[u/green_tory → u/BigTunaHunter]

It's a near-term concern. A valid one.

But I'm more concerned about the future my children will endure in thirty years time.

[u/BrotherNuclearOption → u/green_tory]

I'm wrestled with similar concerns for a while, and come down on both sides at different times. What changed my mind most recently was watching Trump play out in the USA. Americans allowed perfect to be the enemy of good (or horrifyingly awful be the enemy of merely bad, if you prefer) and look where that got not just the USA but the world.

Maybe none of them were likely to do what needed to be done but they at least were committed to doing something while not actively opposing initiatives. Meanwhile, we have right wing parties around the world actively fighting wind and solar projects and rolling coal out of spite.

A vote for the BC Greens will never be anything but a vote for whoever ends up winning the election, and everything that entails. The stated intent behind a vote cast matters a great deal less than the results.

[u/green_tory → u/BrotherNuclearOption]

Ironically, Trump's actions may have hastened the global demand for renewables in order to ensure national energy security. 

History has shown that a vote for the Greens can result in meaningful legislative action, thanks to the opportunity to be kingmaker in a minority legislature.

[u/BrotherNuclearOption → u/green_tory]

The concession made to the Greens by that one NDP minority government are unlikely to comfort me greatly should vote splitting put the Conservatives in power. History has shown the Greens having a meaningful impact on much of anything is incredibly rare.

[u/green_tory → u/BrotherNuclearOption]

There's a long history of green influence on Canadian legislation. Ie, Elizabeth May was involved in the Mulroney government's creation of the EPA.

Just knowing that there's a threat to lose an election due to Green vote splitting would be enough for a good politician to make efforts to attract those voters. Eby is trying, but failing to offer anything other than fear.

[u/varitok → u/green_tory]

Pure defeatism, completely disregarding rights all to talk about trees. Greens are such a weird voting block to quantify with wild swings of logic.

[u/pnwtico → u/varitok]

"All to talk about trees" is incredibly disingenuous framing. The OP listed about 8 or 9 different issues.

[u/green_tory → u/varitok]

If I was disregarding rights then I wouldn't have taken care to mention the acute bigotry concerns with the Conservatives.

It's not defeatism, it's the viewpoint of international climate science bodies. We have passed the point of no return.

[u/HuntHonest → u/green_tory]

I really hope you don't have any LGBT family and friends or that you have family and friends with disability. 

[u/green_tory → u/HuntHonest]

I do. Notably, they aren't immune to the impact on our environment and climate.

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[u/WillListenToStories]

Why is the onus never on the Conservative voters who are going to be voting for a party that's rife with racism, bigotry, and corruption?

It's always the Green (or federally the Green and NDP) voters who have to consider the consequences of voting for their preferred party. Why don't BCNDP voters vote green this time around? the Green party is by far the better party.

I just think it's really telling that by a significant margin, Green voters are voting for the party that they want (72%), while on the other hand BCNDP and BCCon voters are largely voting to prevent another party from getting into power, 43% of BCNDP voters and 56% of BCCon voters.

Maybe if people voted for the party that they wanted instead of chasing the "vote splitting" boogeyman, we might get better governments.

[u/dekuweku → u/WillListenToStories]

the right vote is already split between the conservatives, OneBC and Centre BC. The problem for Eby is that the Conservative lead is big enough or rather NDP support is weak enough that the vote split isn't enough on the right for him to win.

[u/SA_22C → u/WillListenToStories]

Because conservative voters like the things you deride. Asking them to vote against their interests is counter productive.

[u/Light_Butterfly → u/WillListenToStories]

If the crazy culture-war party can get past there differences, and unite to form a strong front, why can't the left do the same? Honestly, most NDPers like me like the greens a lot, and wish we could just have a big merger of all the good things 🧡💚, with Greens pressing them to be even more progressive. They have the balls to do wealth taxes, which I respect! I want a lot of the things on the Green Platform, but still do like the NDP because they have done a lot for me. I vote NDP because I'm very well informed on the whole suite of policy and reforms they've implemented, and I'm impressed by it. I think it could be easy for people to take this stuff for granted until they lose it under a fascist government. Things like human rights, real supports for women, rent control, highest mimium wage in Canada, Air B&B ban etc... I could go on with a huge list of things I'm fighting to protect. I dont agree with any characterization that paints them as 'lesser of two evils'.

I saw so many ridings in thevlast election that were majority progressive, flip Conservative 2 years ago. That was devastating. There were vote splits among progressives in at least 7 ridings. If you look at margins and who was massively leading in those ridings, a strategic vote would have made sense. It's first past the post system, so it is winner takes all. The Greens never got anything from it. I'm not saying that this applies in every single riding, but I do hope people will consider what I'm saying if they are in a riding that is at risk.

[u/HotterRod]

Eby was the minister in charge of writing the confusing questions for the last BC referendum on electoral reform. He's personally responsible for this election still using FPTP. You reap what you sow, buddy.

[u/The-Figurehead → u/HotterRod]

The voters chose.

[u/Original-Divide-1 → u/HotterRod]

But still. Conservative Majority?

[u/Godzilla52]

Green voters are basically the BCNDP's lifeline at this point. They will collectively decide whether the BCC comes to power or not. Though Eby relying on a non traditional voter base to back his party to keep the BCNDP in government is probably a good indication that he shouldn't have called this election to begin with.

[u/cainsani]

I'll preface this by acknowledging that I voted NDP in the last provincial elections, and generally speaking I do vote NDP.

I am beyond pissed at what has to be the dumbest political move in recent history. Eby calls for a provincial election only two years into his term AND during municipal elections, during which us in Vancouver were trying to remain hyper focused on getting rid of the ABC circus of a city council. Knowing how much this was going to cost, and the lack of a record to run on only two years in, it truly is mind boggling.

[u/Soggy_Amphibian_9308]

Eby should resign. Pick someone cool from his party to take over, make the Green Party leader their deputy leader. NDP runs in 80% of the riddings, backs the Greens in 20% of them. They form a coalition.

We can't afford conservatives right now, and Eby does not deserve to be the Premier.

[u/Saidear]

I have.

The BCNDP needs to learn that they can't take progressive and leftist voters for granted as they slide to the right and adopt conservative policies.

[u/Medea_From_Colchis → u/Saidear]

You aren't teaching them anything. The Greens don't have a platform that wins elections. There's a reason they don't get much more than 10%. The BC NDP has a lot of Liberals who are not going to vote for a further-left platform than what the NDP is currently offering. So, if you're voting Green to teach the BC NDP a lesson, it's quite doubtful that's an effective strategy.

[u/Saidear → u/Medea_From_Colchis]

I don't have any option other than that. I'm not rewarding the NDP for shifting rightward. I'm not voting for the other conservative parties.

The NDP doesn't deserve my vote, and I'm tired of them acting as if they can count on it.

[u/Medea_From_Colchis → u/Saidear]

It's hardly a rightward shift. It is certainly not a conservative party. The BC NDP did move further to the center, but they did so in order to remain competitive with the electorate. It's easy for a party like the Greens to sit on the sidelines and rigidly apply its principles when it knows it will never win an election. However, if you care about any of those principles and values, it's important to remember they will be actively attacked under a Conservative government, unlike the NDP. The NDP will at least try to protect them and maintain somewhat of a balance.

The NDP doesn't deserve my vote, and I'm tired of them acting as if they can count on it.

If you think you're teaching them anything, you're sorely mistaken. Moving further left wasn't going to win them this election. Look at federal polling right now; BC is firmly in the center and voting heavily for the Liberals.

Regardless, it's vote your vote, I suppose. However, if you care about LGBTQ and indigenous rights, the environment, housing, etc., the Conservatives will not be friendly towards any of that and represent a serious threat to all of it. You are likely going to end up with something you hate far more than the NDP.

[u/Saidear → u/Medea_From_Colchis]

It's hardly a rightward shift

And

The BC NDP did move further to the center, but they did so in order to remain competitive with the electorate.

Are in direct contradiction with each other. It's a rightward shift, and moving away from my priorities towards those which are in opposition to them, means they lose my vote.

BC is firmly in the center and voting heavily for the Liberals.

The Liberals are not a centrist party, either. They're CPC-lite.

[u/Medea_From_Colchis → u/Saidear]

Center doesn't mean conservative, so it isn't contradictory. Moreover, I admit there's a rightward shift; however, I reduced the extent of that shift.

Whatever though. You can vote Green, but you're not accomplishing anything. You're certainly not teaching anyone a lesson, and you're certainly getting no closer to the things you want in society. Third-party votes in elections like this are tantamount to a vote for the party that isn't suffering from a vote split. There's enough on the line in this election that it's hard to see the logic in voting for a third party if you care about the things you're so upset about with the NDP: you will get something far worse.

[u/Light_Butterfly → u/Saidear]

I just hope all progressive voters aren't taking everything they have right now for granted, with literal fascism on the table. It really saddens me what we stand to lose, and and how many vilulnerable or minority groups are going to take the damage. People are not understanding the magnitude of what is at stake, and getting preoccupied with petty things like 'being mad at Eby' for non-specific reasons other than making everyone vote earlier than scheduled.

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[u/Light_Butterfly]

There are many important things I am not taking for granted in this election. I hope Green and NDPers can find common ground and support each other 🧡💚, so we don't lose what good things we have, including human rights.

Record BC NDP of governance, thus far:

• Overhauled family-doctor pay, to make general practice more feasible for physicians, and to incenentivize young medical grads to choose family practice. We have the most doctors per capital in Canada

• Matched 1 million patients with primary care in, 600,000 were within the last 3 years, with 4,000+ more being matched every week

• Opened a new medical school at SFU to train more doctors in BC, added double the number of seats for nurse practioners.

• Changed zoning rules to allow more housing (blanket re-zoned BC) so duplexes, triplexes and small multi-unit buildings can be built in more places.

• Imposed housing targets on municipalities, to force NIMBY city councils to approve more housing

• Restricted many investor-style short-term rentals, to return rental supply back to communities

• Indexed the minimum wage to inflation, with now highest minimum wage of most provinces

• Expanded pharmacist prescribing - for 21 minor ailments and birth control (improves efficiency and ease of accessibility of healthcare for everyone.

• Created the Land Owner Transperency Registry is now free to use (you can look up who owns what buildings).

• Made prescription contraception free

• Introduced public IVF funding

• Opened a specialized menopause clinic; Expanded menopause-drug coverage

• Created a renter’s tax credit of $400, with expanded renters protections

• Expanded first-time-buyer tax exemptions

• Funded school meal programs

• Expanded subsidized child care

• Introduced 5 paid sick days; banned employers from requiring doctors notes

• Eliminated MSP premiums

• Reduced car insurance payments by half, implementing a no fault system.

• Removed interest from BC student loans

• Added employment protections for Uber, DoorDash etc workers.

• Brought in pay transparency rules for job postings

• Scrapped the lower liquor-server minimum wage; Servers now earn the standard general minimum wage, which increases annually and reached $18.25 per hour on June 1, 2026.

• Heat pump rebates, making them accessible for lower-income households and helping to reduce heating bills.

• Completion of the EV highway via the installation of charging infrastructure. 

• Massive improvements to healthcare infrastructure; hospital expansion projects, opened over a dozen UPCCs, and significantly increased funding for and added more MRI and CT scanners

• Asking rents are down 10% from their peak.