Promises on jobs, affordability continue to dominate B.C. election campaign
VANCOUVER — With just over a week left in British Columbia’s election campaign, the leaders spent Sunday out on the hustings trying to shore up votes.
Campaigning in the Kootenays, B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark repeated her party’s promise to protect jobs in resource industries like forestry and mining.
Last week, the U.S. introduced tariffs of up to 24 per cent on Canadian lumber, and Clark said her party is the only one that can stand up for B.C. workers in the face of rising protectionism.
“The NDP can’t do it. The Greens won’t do it. Not when they have opposed so many of the jobs we already have in British Columbia,” she said during a campaign stop at a hardware store in Invermere, B.C.