The BC Greens have released their platform for #BCElxn2024
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The BC Greens have released their platform for #BCElxn2024
Highlighted in this article:
- a network of 93 community health centres
- cover six visits per year with a mental health professional under the provincial medical services plan
- maintain carbon pricing in B.C. while increasing the rebate residents receive
- make all vaccines free and available to British Columbians
- promised a special taskforce to investigate missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited people
- continue to support the implementation of SOGI 123 in classrooms.
- require supervised consumption sites to be set up in all public hospitals
- tax increases for homes valued at over $3 million
- carbon tax would be increased for companies creating the most pollution in B.C.
- No new permits for fracking, pipelines or LNG would be granted
- gas production would be phased out under a Green government
-and not included in this article but mentioned last week, doubling public transit services and implementing hourly bus connections between communities#BCPoli #BCElection
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-green-platform-1.7339009 -
@chris Which vaccines aren't free? Confused by that part.
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@dx a LOT. You'd be surprised. The most glaring is Hep A/B and Shingles.
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@chris "We will require the Government to spend at least as much on public transit, walking, and cycling as on highway infrastructure and operations."
Greens' prospects are grim, but at least they're saying the things I like to hear.
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There are some very large numbers listed in tables in this document https://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2023/sp/pdf/ministry/tran.pdf
In the table "Financial Summary" we can see that "Public Transportation" is about 1/3 of the overall.
Later, "Transportation Investments" shows different, larger, totals (in millions this time, I believe).
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Brandon 🇨🇦 😷 5×💉replied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
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Lightning Bjornsson :evdonia_corner_emblem:replied to Ed Wiebe last edited by
@edwiebe @dx @chris Quite a lot of vaccines you may not think urgent/relevant are. #krokodili
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@dx and sometimes that has to be enough!
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@TheDefiant604 @dx some have to pay, yes!
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Mat Wright last edited by
@MatWright unfortunately, a LOT of people think Nuclear power is not only a solution, but the only solution. (not I)
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@lightning @edwiebe @dx after seeing my Mother and another elderly friend go through it... the Shingles vaccine should be free. It is currently over $500 (over two doses) The pain, including long term, if-not-permanent pain inflicted by that recurrence of a virus *we already give out free vaccines to kids for* is a form of elder abuse IMO.
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@chris BC could have gone geo thermal, massive selling power - but no
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Mat Wright last edited by
@MatWright we will... in 50 years when we get our heads out of our…..
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@MatWright Come to think of it, I am a little disappointed in the Greens that they didn't at least mention an exploration of geothermal in their platform as a way to transition workers away from the gas industry and preserve and use those same skills. It may not be to the same scale, or who knows... maybe it would be and it would immediately put a pin in the “YOU'RE TAKING AWAY JOBS" pushback.
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@chris @MatWright I do think nuclear power ought to make a comeback, but some lessons should be applied, ya know?
Like, for one example, stop building them in earthquake/tsunami zones!
Which of course rules out much of BC.
And since they take many years to come online, you've gotta pair it with a solid short game, too. Like solar, wind, geo, tidal, hydro, and bottling up the hot air emitted by politicians.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Kevin Boyd last edited by [email protected]
@kboyd @MatWright and that last paragraph is the real crux of the matter. Until we can come up with a nuclear technology that can be created at-scale in 1-5 years versus 10-25years (or more), nuclear will not be a viable option for the very immediate need we have to reduce our emissions before 2050.
China has figured this out. We only need to stop being either dumb, proud, or racist, or maybe it's all three… and follow their lead.
"To "firm" or stabilise the supply of power from its renewable energy zones, China is using a mix of pumped hydro and battery storage, similar to Australia.”
Canada's potential for pumped hydro is *astronomical* compared to China. And yet you know how many examples of it we have in this country.... nearly none.
'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month
While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.
(www.abc.net.au)