VANCOUVER – New Democrats are calling on Transportation Minister Todd Stone to commit to supporting the referendum question being finalized by Lower Mainland mayors, and to campaigning for “yes” in the TransLink referendum. “The mayors met the minister’s challenge to …

VICTORIA– Keeping young people safe is at the heart of the push to change how the party bus industry operates, says George Heyman, MLA for Vancouver Fairview. “The largely unregulated party bus industry in B.C. has been responsible for a …

George Heyman speaks about the importance of the high tech industry in BC and the need for the government to support and encourage this sector.  

Well, if this chamber was a class in drama, I guess we’d be calling what’s happened over the last few days, with the introduction of this bill, the denouement. I don’t know if over the last 18 months to two years what we’ve been witnessing is an exercise in monomania or a Greek tragedy.

“Not only do we listen to chambers of commerce, unlike the minister, we listen to the Chamber of Commerce when they point out that his figures, the 500 vehicles using route 40, don’t correspond with B.C. Ferry’s own figures of 2,643 vehicles. When we listen to them, we don’t treat them with disdain.”

TransLink’s fare gate Compass card system has been a financial disaster from day one. Its price tag is almost $200 million — 14 percent over budget on another failed Liberal plan.

“here is a reason that about 98 percent of the world’s scientists are in agreement that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. It’s worldwide. It’s not a regional phenomenon. It’s a significant threat to the future health of the planet and the future well-being of many low-lying communities that are barely above sea level. It’s also a significant economic threat, as was pointed out by Sir Nicholas Stern, I believe, in the U.K. If we do not deal with this, there will be significant price to pay, economic price to pay, in many, many, many ways down the road.”

“n October 17, I was honoured to attend the Hospital Employees Union Vancouver General Hospital local’s 70th anniversary celebration. On October 13, 1944, Canada’s Trades and Labor Congress chartered Local 180 at VGH, later known as the Hospital Employees Union. HEU is B.C.’s oldest and largest health care union, started with just 300 members at VGH and now representing over 46,000”

B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan made the following statement on the occasion of Diwali: “As Canadians of Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist faiths and backgrounds celebrate Diwali, B.C. New Democrats wish you a very happy holiday season. “At this special time, …