The Canada Brief

Canada · 18 d ago

British Columbia Parliament Buildings, Victoria

Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Advance voting opens in British Columbia before the Conservatives release a costed platform

Oct

24

Saturday

British Columbia

Advance polls are open from Friday to Wednesday, ahead of election day on Oct 24.

Lorne Doerkson, interim BC Conservative leader

RoyalObserver · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Interim Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson said the costed platform will be released imminently, and that he wants its numbers to be right before it is.

We're working on it, but I want it to be right.

— Lorne Doerkson, interim BC Conservative leader

Cost of Conservative promises, according to Eby

5 $ billion

David Eby's New Democrats and Emily Lowan's BC Greens released their costed platforms earlier this week. Eby said the Conservatives' promises would cost $5 billion and that they have not said how they would pay for them.