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BC Liberal Labour Critic John Martin After months of refusing to use WorkSafeBC surplus funding to help workers and businesses buy much-needed personal protective equipment (PPE), it's been discovered what the NDP has chosen to spend that money on instead: hoodies, tote bags and stainless-steel water bottles. " To say this is an absolute gross mismanagement of funds is an understatement ," said BC Liberal Labour Critic John Martin. " The NDP Minister of Labour Harry Bains said just a few months ago that WorkSafeBC didn't have any money to help buy masks, gloves and other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for workers, but they somehow found the means to buy a bunch of swag with the company logo on it?’ “Every worker who has contributed their hard-earned money to WorkSafeBC should be outraged ." I asked John if he’d had a chance to bring this up in Question Period, with Labour Minister Bains; “ Sadly, I did not ”, he stated. “ I learned about this ...

As the NDP enter their fourth year in power, BC Liberal Critic for Education Dan Davies is raising concerns about the NDP’s years of broken promises and what challenges the COVID-19 pandemic will bring for students and families for the upcoming school year. “ The NDP promised to eliminate portables in Surrey within four years but instead, they’ve added 97 more portables and increased the total by 35 per cent ,” said Davies MLA for Peace River-North. “ In May, the NDP chose to slash 20 per cent of the funding to Independent Distributed Learning — a program that provides distance learning for many of British Columbia’s most vulnerable students — despite promising they wouldn’t. The NDP’s three years of inaction and broken promises have done very little to help students and families and they have good reason to be upset with the direction of this government .” Parents and students have been patient and managed the uncertainty of this past school year as school districts dealt wit...