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NDP, Conservatives, Greens trade barbs on taxes, health care B.C. election campaign
The NDP, Conservatives and Greens each pitched new tax plans as they clashed over doctor shortages and long-term care funding.
- Health care and taxes dominated the British Columbia election campaign on Monday as NDP Leader David Eby, the Conservatives, and the Greens traded barbs over competing fiscal and medical policies.
- Eby unveiled a tax plan on Sunday targeting those earning more than $1 million, while Green Leader Emily Lowan proposed a wealth tax on households above $50 million to "pay their fair share."
- Conservatives interim leader Lorne Doerkson criticized the NDP tax policy, claiming it affects those earning $190,405, and said the government failed to provide family doctors for 1.2 million people across British Columbia.
- Doerkson announced a $50 million fund to aid rural medical practices at risk of closure, arguing Eby's tax policy would drive doctors out—a claim Eby denied citing "one of the lowest tax rates for medical professionals" in Canada.
- Eby defended his tax increases as "the right thing to do," promising to use revenue for free shingles vaccines and to hire 500 staff helping about 5,600 more seniors receive home care.
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