ADAM OLSEN: Minister after Minister stood and used the questions to attack the past 16 years of poor management from the former government
During Question Period last week, MLAs grilled the government on the low-wage redress package offered to some workers in the social care industry. As of April 1, unionized social care workers will receive a bump in their wages beyond the standard 2% increase. This wage increase is welcome because social care workers make low wages for the work they do. Their work is both important and difficult. They are an overworked and under-appreciated sector of our society. The problem with the wage increase is that only unionized workers get it — non-unionized workers do not get the increase, even when they might be doing the same work and work for the same company. Many BC Liberals stood in Question Period and asked why this was so, and tried to get in criticisms of how the government handled the issue. I stood in Question Period and asked for an answer " that doesn't pivot to the last 16 years. I want the Minister of Social Development to please explain why t...