COLLINS: Premier’s smokescreen leading to spring election
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DESPITE HIS VEHEMENT denials, Premier David Eby will send British Columbians to the polls next spring. The signs are all there.
A little bit of money and a few promises here and there, designed to make us think the government cares before the Premier says he just has to seek a new mandate to fix the province’s failing health care system, our supported housing problems and our community safety issues. And he then will commit some of the province’s surplus to a few issues to “help give the taxpayers some relief in these tough times.”
The problem is that it will simply give the government four more years of doing nothing. The move to freeze ICBC rates for two years is a prime example. Seems like a great idea, but at a time when ICBC is facing severe losses because of the rising cost of claims? Rising rates would also encourage more people to switch to alternate forms of transportation.
A move to improve the funding model for family doctors is a positive move, but it doesn’t provide incentives to help rural health care. Paying nurses more isn’t going to stop burnout. These little bandaids will only last until the Premier gets all his promises in a row, to be fulfilled if we reelect the NDP.
