Premier Eby’s Asia trade junket nothing more than damage control at a time when BC needs to be making progress on trade and the economy
BC Conservatives are shining a light on BC NDP Premier David Eby’s failures on external and interprovincial trade as he heads on a 10-day damage control junket to Asia. Hot off ramming through Bills 14 and 15, the Premier is doing whatever he can to distract from his dismal economic record. “This Premier has not done anything to advance BC’s trade agenda. If anything, he has worked to substantially erode any progress BC made,” said Teresa Wat, MLA for Richmond-Bridgeport and Official Opposition Critic for Trade. “If this BC NDP government had not shut down 13 freestanding trade offices, we would not have to play catch-up when we are facing constant threats of increased US tariffs.” In 2019, the BC NDP government shut down 13 independent trade offices in China, Japan, India, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Singapore. Doing so meant folding up offices, cutting staff, and folding the work of these trade offices into existing Canadian embassies. "The result of this ...