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From a Jobs Plan to a Debt-Free B.C.

Today BriTish ColumBia sTands Tallas a sae harbour ina world marked with economic turmoil.

But soon, we will all have to make a choice.

Does British Columbia keep moving orward, or do werisk sliding back to our darker past? Thats the questionthat matters on May 14, 2013.

Choosing Todays BC Liberals means choosing abalanced budget, a growing economy, small government,and low taxes.

Returning to the NDP means a return to biggergovernment, consistently reckless spending, more debt,

and higher taxes.

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Strong Economy. Secure Tomorrow. reects the strength,competence, and diversity o Todays BC Liberals.

Our platorm is divided into ve key themes that outline

our vision or B.C.s uture and how we intend to getthere. Our plan is responsible. Our plan is practical.Our plan is aordable. But most importantly, our planrecognizes that this election shouldnt just be about thepeople who call British Columbia home today.

I it isnt okay or parents to leave their children withdebt, then it isnt okay or government to leave uturegenerations saddled with debt either. Thats why Todays

BC Liberals are the right choice or British Columbia.

Platform Summary


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It starts with a Jobs Planand ends with a Debt-Free B.C.

htOur platorm is divided into ve key themes that outlineour vision or B.C.s uture.

seCure Tomorrow

A Sae, Clean, Healthy and Aordable B.C.

Leading Canada in the reduction o crime

Protecting our water, air, land and coastline

Doubling hospice beds, training more doctors, and adding

addiction spaces

Putting the reeze on personal income tax rates and the carbon tax

Controlling Spending and Balancing the Budget

Capping government spending increases

Launching a core review o government ministries

Toughening B.C.s balanced budget legislation

Roadmap or a Debt-Free B.C.

Debt Paydown Plan or government debt, BC Ferries and BC Hydro

Dedicating LNG revenues to the B.C. Prosperity Fund

Controlling spending while growing the economy

sTrong eConomy

The B.C. Jobs Plan protects our uture

Comprehensive strategy to seize B.C.s liqueed natural gas (LNG)

opportunity

Small Business tax cut and red tape reduction

Targeted strategies to spur growth across B.C.s economy

Modernizing Education and Skills Training

Skills training to make sure B.C. workers are rst in line or jobs

A -year education agreement that respects teachers and benets

students

Early childhood education and childcare benets or amilies


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2013 Platform

Table o Contents

A message rom Premier Christy Clark 1

Strong Economy 3

1. BC Jobs Plan protecting our uture

2. Modernizing education and skills training

SEcurE tomorrow 55

3. Building a Sae, Clean, Healthyand Aordable B.C.

4. Controlling spending andbalancing the budget

5. Our plan or a Debt-Free B.C.

Roadmap to a Debt-Free B.C. 82

Platorm costing 83


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STRONG ECONOMY. SECURE TOMORROW. 1

Strong Economy, Secure Tomorrow.

Todays BC Liberal Plana P Ct C

In this provincial election, British Columbians will acea choice between Todays BC Liberals plan to controlspending, create jobs and keep the economy growing, orgoing back to the NDP who will run up debt and growthe size o government.

Under the 1990s NDP, we became a have-not province orthe rst time in our history. Per-capita economic growthell to dead last in Canada, and the provincial debtload doubled. Starting in 2001 we turned the page and,through diligence and ocus, got our scal house in orderand climbed back out o the NDPs have-not status. Now,were at a crossroads. Do we keep moving orward, or dowe risk sliding back?

With our balanced budget and the BC Jobs Plan,Todays BC Liberals want to grow the economy and payo the provincial debt. A key part o this plan is takingadvantage o our once-in-a-generation opportunity to

develop a new industry by exporting Liqueed NaturalGas to Asian markets. Over the next 30 years, thisclean resource has the potential to generate $1 trillionin economic activity, $100 billion or the BC ProsperityFund, and 100,000 high-paying jobs. The NDP reuse tocome clean on their position on natural gas and wouldblow this historic opportunity.

The Leader o the NDP and I are bothapplying or the same job, the jobo your Premier, and were doingit at a time when our province issurrounded by economic risk. Letscompare our platorms, our visions,our plans, and our teams... then letyou, the people o B.C., decide.


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Creating jobs is

the best thing wecan do to protectand secure abrighter uture

or B.C. amilies.


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Around the world, nancial uncertainty still threatens theglobal economy.

Runaway decits and debt have brought hardship topeople in the United States, Greece, France, Spain andnow Cyprus.

In a turbulent global economy, investment is looking

or signals o strength and competence: a sae harbour.The latest international crisis is a resh reminder that wecannot aord to let our guard down in British Columbia or spend more than we take in.

Creating jobs is the best thing we can do to protect andsecure a brighter uture or B.C. amilies.

The BC Jobs Plan has three main goals:

1. Work with employers, communities and post-secondaryinstitutions to enable job creation across B.C.

2. Expand the markets or B.C.s goods and services,particularly in Asia Pacic and South Asia.

Strong Economy

1. BC Jobs Plan protects our uture3. Strengthen our inrastructure to get goods to market.

Succeeding with these goals requires broad commitmentto scal discipline and skills training. The rst is oundin Balanced Budget 2013. Keeping public debt down isthe key to making B.C. the economic engine o Canada,a place that countries around the world want to invest in

and do business with.B.C. has many strengths to build on:

Abundant natural resources, such as natural gas,orests, seaood and minerals.

Proximity to Asia that gives B.C. an edge in conductingtrade with countries in the Asia Pacic and South Asia.

Our diverse multicultural population acts as a bridgeacross the Pacic.

A record o scal discipline, reected in B.C.s lowdebt-to-GDP ratio and balanced budget.

Photo: Copyright 3, Province o British Columbia.


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A highly skilled workorce and great post-secondaryinstitutions.

The BC Jobs Plan builds on these strengths, turningthem to our competitive advantage.

In British Columbia under Todays BC Liberals,unemployment is down, investment is up, jobs are up andcommunities are succeeding.

We are stable and, even better, we are growing.

Todays BC Liberals will use the next term in ofce topursue even greater gains.

This platorm is about carrying orward the work weve

started and must continue, and driving orward withnew commitments built on the oundation weve laid orBritish Columbians.


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What does Asia have to do with B.C.s economic uture?Everything.

An ocean may divide us, but we have a long shared

history with Asia. The Asian middle class is growingin leaps and bounds and they need our resources likenatural gas, copper, agrioods, coal, and lumber, as wellas our knowledge-based services like green technologiesand education.

Its a natural t. Our province boasts considerablepersonal and business connections with Asia while ourports are closer than any other on the west coast. Our

investments in the $22 billion Pacic Gateway haveimproved the movement o goods. Premier ChristyClarks trade missions with her team are ensuringpredictability and relationship development with ourmajor trading partners, including China, India, Japanand South Korea, with the goal o increasing trade byanother 50 per cent over the next ve years.

Growing numbers o entrepreneurs and investors romAsian nations are turning to us or sae, stable businessopportunities.

Our goal is to make B.C. the headquarters or Asianbusinesses in North America.

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Then: 2001 now: 2012

Our work is producing results:

B.C.s goods exports to Asia have increased by morethan $7 billion, or 106 per cent, since 2001, reachingmore than $14 billion in 2011 a record amount.

Since 2007, when we launched the Asia Pacic

Initiative, the Provinces exports to Asia have increasedby more than $5 billion.

Source: Ministry o Finance


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170 Asian companies are represented here. Asiancorporate ofces include: Agricultural Bank o China,Korea Southern Power, Mitsubishi Corporation,and eight LNG-related companies rom Asia have aphysical presence.

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Todays BC Liberals will:

Work with Canada and the Business Council o B.C. tocreate an organization designed to attract major Asiancompanies to invest and locate their North Americanpresence in British Columbia. The goal is to attract veNorth American head ofces to British Columbia by

2020. Commit to annual ministerial-level trade missions toAsia.

Commit to minimum o one premier-led trade missionto Asia per year.

Premier Christy Clark meets with the Chinese Vice Premier.



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Under our eet lies as much energy as Alberta has inits oil patch. It is in the orm o natural gas, a cleaneralternative to oil or coal, in the Northeast corner oBritish Columbia.

Natural gas is extracted using environmentally saemethods.

Today, our market or natural gas is in North America,where we can only ship it via pipeline.

Tomorrow, our goal is to have a Liqueed Natural Gasindustry that will add value to our abundant natural gas

resource by shipping it by sea to Asia where it currentlysells or over ve times the North American price. Byrealizing this vision we can deliver jobs, opportunity anda legacy or uture generations.

What we are doing about it

LNG acilities are currently proposed by businessgroups that include some o the worlds biggest energy

companies Shell, Imperial, Chevron, British Gas,Petronas, SK & ES o South Korea, Inpex and theChinese National Oshore Oil Corporation, to namesome o the major players. Its no antasy.

The projects mean 39,000 jobs to British Columbiaduring construction with another 75,000 ull time jobscreated once in operation. We can create $1 trillion ineconomic activity and create the BC Prosperity Fundwith $100 billion over 30 years.

An opportunity this good aces lots o global competition.Premier Christy Clark and Todays BC Liberals haveworked diligently to enable LNG as an economicgenerator or decades to come.



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LNG exports are now a necessity or the uture oCanadas natural gas industry.

ARC Financial Corp., Dreaming Big, Again, October 1, 2012

LNG growth is unolding in real time, all around the

world, and the biggest winners are ar rom beingdetermined. For Canada, nothing is more urgent rightnow than getting in the game.

Jim Prentice, ormer ederal cabinet minister, now vice-chairman othe Canadian Imperial Bank o Commerce, Feb. 2013

We are providing one trillion yen [$10 billion] in loanguarantees. We would like to boost the Canadian

projects orward.

Keisuke Tsujimoto, general manager o the Vancouver oce o thestate-owned Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation,

The Vancouver Sun, April 2013

The government has set a goal o at least three LNGacilities online by 2020. In just one year, weve had multi-national companies commit $7 billion to be a part o thisexciting new industry.

How the NDP will blow this opportunity

The NDP are divided on LNG and have not shownindustry the clear positions that investors need. Theyoppose the development o clean-energy Site C. Theyhave promised to review, and even impose a moratorium,

on hydraulic racturing, even though B.C. already has themost up-to-date regulations in the world.

LNG is a once-in-a-lietime opportunity or greatereconomic prosperity, but we have to move quickly. Otherregions have natural gas as well and also want to seize theopportunity.

Now, the NDP wants to slap a job-killing natural gas tax

on our producers in Northeast B.C.

Todays BC Liberals will move decisively to ensure we donot lose out.

[LNG] was an evolution over some decades. Ittook strong provincial level leadership in the stateo western Australia in the seventies and NorthwestShel to occur, and 30 years later everyone says whata wise premier he was at the time.

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Ruddspeaking in Vancouver, April 6, 2013


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Kitimat LNG wins -year exportlicence to international markets inpartnership with Haisla Nation.

Shell buys terminal on B.C. coastor LNG export project. Shell, withPetroChina Co. and Japanese andSouth Korean partners, announcesplans to ship LNG to Asia.

Premier Christy Clark leads rst o trade missions to Asia where LNG isdiscussed with major investors andconsumers o natural gas.

Premier Clark announces BC Natural Gas

Strategy ocusing on development o brand-new LNG sector.

National Energy Board grants rst -yearLNG export license to BC LNG.

Mitsubishi Corp. Japan invests $bn inNortheast B.C. gas lands.

BC Oil and Gas Commission cleared tobegin review o Kitimat LNG acility.

BC LNG wins a -year export licence.

Shell, Mitsubishi, PetroChinaannounce LNG Canada plans.

LNG Canada les or -yearexport license.

B.C. government updates Clean

Energy Act to ensure powerdemands o LNG industry canbe met.

First major survey o LNGopportunity urges rapidgovernment action to ensureproject reviews are not draggedout and unnecessarily duplicated.

B.C. announces it will host Canadas rst internationalconerence ocused on LNG in Feb. .

Pacic Northwest LNG moves rom easibility study todesign phase.

$bn a year will be spent in B.C. on LNG developmentsuntil , creating .m person-years o employment.

Chevron buys % interests in Kitimat LNG, a proposedpipeline, and natural gas holding.

A second LNG proposal at Kitsault nearPrince Rupert is announced, with FirstNations partners.

Federal regulations are unveiled allowingKitimat LNG acility to proceed on HaislaFirst Nation land.

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Government o Japan says it hasallocated $bn in loan guarantees tohelp build natural gas in rastructureprojects in B.C.

Premier Clark announces new, majorinternational LNG project proposals orGrassy Point near Prince Rupert.

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Progress on lng under Premier ChrisTy Clark large B.C. LNG projects underway, uprom in .

Investments in B.C.s natural gas sectorreach $bn.

Speech rom the Throne reveals ProsperityFund creating the Debt-Free B.C. legacyor our children to ensure uture LNGrevenues are not squandered.

B.C. Natural Gas Workorce StrategyCommittee releases major analysisdening workorce needed.

LNG Canada granted export licence.


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You have to look at least 25 to 30 years ahead or LNG,simply because thats the nature o the business. Isomebody is going to spend $5 billion you are goingto look at that sort o horizon to get a return on theinvestment.

LNG expert Zoher Meratla, quoted by

The Canadian Press, Feb. 14, 2013

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An economic generator or uture generations

our Pledges in suPPorT oF lng

An extensive eort led by Premier Clark identied whatneeds to be done to ensure we can close the deal on LNG:

lng ProsPeriTy Fund

Debt elimination rst priority.

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Create a Ministry o Natural Gas Development.

More resources to be granted to LNG Secretariat to

ensure rapid engagement with proponents. A cabinet committee composed o the Premier,

Minister o Natural Gas Development, other Ministersand MLAs and business and community leaders towork with the LNG Secretariat to capture the LNGopportunity.

Work with the ederal government to ensure there isone comprehensive environmental assessment processin place or LNG developments.

Make the international LNG conerence held inFebruary 2013 an annual event to ensure global

investors understand the opportunity in BritishColumbia.

Ensure British Columbias LNG acilities are thecleanest in the world.

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Provide aordable energy rates or amilies,communities and industry even as we market oursurplus natural gas or a Debt-Free B.C.

Pursue new power sources or LNG manuacturing,including Site C, that will secure uture energy orconsumers.

Work with First Nations, communities and privatesector to secure an LNG pipeline corridor acrossnorthern B.C. to service LNG acilities in and aroundthe Prince Rupert area.

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Remain world leaders in sae natural gas extractionpractices.

Continue to innovate and support the use o world-leading hydraulic racturing techniques to supply LNGprojects with natural gas.


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Require annual reporting on water issues arising romhydraulic racturing through the BC Oil and GasCommission.

Apply tough environmental standards to those who useour water.

Clean energy

Work with Clean Energy B.C. to ensure continuedopportunities or renewable power to be a source opower or British Columbia.

Live up to the clean energy power purchase agreementsmade by BC Hydro on behal o the electricity users othe province.

Continue the Standing Oer Program that encouragesthe development o Clean Power Projects o lessthan 15 megawatts in support o regional economicdevelopment and First Nations energy projects.

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Work with LNG project proponents and First Nationswho have traditional territory claims over areas

covered by proposed pipeline routes or proposed LNGacilities, and support First Nations who participate inLNG projects as the Haisla are doing.

Secure a urther $1 million in 2014-15 to helpAboriginal communities participate in the clean energy

sector via the First Nations Clean Energy BusinessFund, including wind energy, biomass and run o theriver hydroelectric power.

Continue to work with First Nations on Economicand Community Development Agreements that helpFirst Nations share direct mineral tax revenues on new

mines and major expansions.

Work with Clean Energy B.C. and First Nationscommunities to ensure continued opportunities orclean and renewable power projects to provide energyto the LNG plants planned or northwest BritishColumbia, once key decisions have been made.

Training

Develop relevant training programs to ensure BritishColumbians, especially northern and aboriginal BritishColumbians, are rst in line or the LNG jobs o theuture.

PoliCy

Ensure B.C. companies are not ignored by ensuring

Alberta lives up to their Trade, Investment and LabourMobility Agreement (TILMA) obligations not todiscriminate against companies wishing to set up headofces in British Columbia rom accessing Albertacontracts.


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Adrian Dix says the NDP wants LNG but his words ring hollow when youlook at his actions.

NDP opposes Site C dam in Northeast B.C.

Senior members o the NDP say they want to review or even stophydraulic racturing, creating delays even though there has never beena single incident o harm to groundwater in British Columbia. The NDPhas provided no details about who will be on the review panel, its termso reerence or the length o time the process will take. Inserting thismassive uncertainty into the LNG process would send investment toother countries.

NDPs inability to say no to their riends in big labour would lead tothe same kind o soaring construction costs seen on LNG projects inAustralia, where one project alone is $20 billion over budget.

NDPs vow to reject the Joint Review Panel process or the NorthernGateway pipeline has raised the question o how an NDP governmentwould approach LNG approvals.

NDPs proposed tax on natural gas extraction will drive investment outo B.C. and endanger our provinces LNG opportunity.

Thats not leadership. These positions will drive away jobs and investmentrom British Columbia and put our LNG opportunity at risk.

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Where we stand on heavy oil pipeline proposals

For British Columbia to consider support or heavy oil

pipelines, the ollowing ve conditions must be met:

1. Successul completion o the environmental reviewprocess. In the case o Enbridge, that would mean arecommendation by the National Energy Board JointReview Panel that the project proceed;

2. World-leading marine oil spill response, preventionand recovery systems or B.C.s coastline and ocean to

manage and mitigate the risks and costs o heavy oilpipelines and shipments;

3. World-leading practices or land oil spill prevention,response and recovery systems to manage and mitigatethe risks and costs o heavy oil pipelines;

4. Legal requirements regarding Aboriginal and treaty

rights are addressed, and First Nations are providedwith the opportunities, inormation and resourcesnecessary to participate in and benet rom a heavy-oilproject; and

5. British Columbia receives a air share o the scal andeconomic benets o a proposed heavy oil project thatreects the level, degree and nature o the risk borne bythe province, the environment and taxpayers.

The BC Liberal government recognizes that responsible

choices must be made i society is to continue benetingrom natural resource development.

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Continue to press Alberta, Ottawa and the privatesector to accept the ve conditions.

Complete the study we have undertaken on marineshipping on Canadas west coast, to determine theresources necessary to protect our coast.

On the basis o that report, press the ederalgovernment to commit the resources necessary toprotect our coast rom marine shipping accidents o allkinds.

Continue to press or new Coast Guard resources tobe placed in Vancouver ollowing the closure o theKitsilano Coast Guard Station.


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Encourage and support the proposals urtherdevelopment so it can be judged on its merits by arobust, rigorous and, most importantly, independent

environmental process ree rom political inuence.

Work with the province o Alberta to ensure that theBlack renery is supported by Alberta and the rest oCanada subject to it passing environmental assessmentapprovals.

Work with David Black to examine the potential orened gasoline being produced or the B.C. market

and possibly reduce the cost or British Columbians.

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David Black is a B.C. entrepreneur whosees an opportunity or British Columbiato generate jobs and wealth. He has oundthe nancing necessary to build Canadas

biggest renery that would be located inNorthern B.C. and ship rened products,like gasoline and diesel uel, to Asia.

His $25-billion proposal or value-added resourcedevelopment in Northwest B.C. would be the largestsingle private-sector investment in B.C. history.Construction means 6,000 jobs, with another 3,000 whenthe renery is in operation.

Internationally recognized energy consulting rmNavigant said Blacks renery proposal has economicmerit and should be seriously considered by theGovernment o the Province.

Blacks renery would be, potentially, a tremendousgame-changer or our children and their children,providing jobs and revenues and economic opportunityor British Columbia.

The environmental benet o the renery is that it wouldreduce the risk to our coastline by shipping lighterpetroleum products compared to existing proposals.

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B t t c ppt

We continue to make historic investments in publicinrastructure at a record pace.

We have abundant resources and our ports are closer toAsian markets than anywhere else in North America. Totake ull advantage o these huge strategic advantages, we

also need world-class inrastructure. Thats why we areinvesting in our ports, railways, roads and airports soB.C. goods can get to market aster, more efciently andmore competitively.

Since 2005 the public and private partners in the PacicGateway Alliance have completed over $22 billion owork to expand our ports, roads, airports and runways.

We are just getting started.

Some o the projects around B.C.:

Planned

g m T pct: Will save commuterstravel time to Vancouver and improve the ow otravellers and goods between Vancouver and the U.S.border.

in Progress

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st F Pt r: Improving the movemento people and goods to better connect Deltaport toHighway 1.

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kc h C Pjct: Upgraded 26 km o Trans-Canada Highway rom Highway 95 junction inGolden to the western boundary o Yoho NationalPark.


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C l: Adds transit capacity equivalent to 10major road lanes.

s t s h: Increased saety, reliability andcapacity.

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Inrastructure

Todays BC Liberals will keep our budget balanced andpay o our provincial debt, while continuing to makestrategic investments. Balanced Budget 2013 means

capital expenditures o $10.4 billion over the next threeyears. Since 2001, our government has invested over$15 billion in transportation inrastructure whilemaintaining our AAA credit rating.

Translink

The issue o how to und public transit in MetroVancouver continues to challenge all levels o government.

Demand is high, but the desire to pay or transitimprovements remains in question.

The original SkyTrain Line, Millennium Line, CanadaLine and soon to be completed Evergreen Line have allpresented commuters with better and aster options. The

Rapid Bus across the new Port Mann Bridge will alsoplay a signicant role in reducing trafc rom south o theFraser River to downtown Vancouver.

However, there are new calls or transit investments alongthe Broadway corridor to UBC, in Surrey, and in the

Langley area. These projects will cost a lot o money tobuild and operate and current unding levels will not beenough.



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The B.C. government and Metro Vancouver MayorsCouncil have been working together to nd solutions orTransLinks unding challenges.

However, in order or these solutions to have legitimacyand taxpayer agreement, they need to be tested by the

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Work with the Metro Vancouver Mayors Council andTransLink to identiy possible sources o unding ortransit improvements. Any new revenue sources wouldthen be subject to a reerendum to be held at the same

time as the municipal elections in November 2014.

Work with communities in Metro Vancouver toaccelerate replacement o the Massey Tunnel.

Complete our-laning o Highway 1 rom Kamloops toAlberta border a $650-million investment that means3,300 direct jobs over 10 years.

Invest $582 million to complete another 45 seismicupgrades o B.C. schools over the next three years.

Collaborate with the Union o B.C. Municipalitieson municipal priorities or next round o ederalinrastructure unding.



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Complete South Fraser Perimeter Road on time and onbudget by December 2013 to help get goods to marketmore quickly.

Initiate and consult on a transportation strategy orVancouver Island to improve movement o peopleand goods by road, rail, air and sea. This strategy willinclude saety improvements to the Malahat corridor.

Build on B.C.s $7.5-million investment in the E&Ncorridor by encouraging the ederal governmentand VIA Rail to re-establish rail passenger service onVancouver Island.

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Every $1 invested inmining creates $2.50in benefts or the B.C.

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An environmentally sae and economically sound industry

In 2012, mining companies spent a record $680 millionseeking new coal and mineral deposits. The B.C. Jobs

Plan dened aggressive targetseight new mines andnine expanded ones in production by 2015 which wouldprovide $150 million in revenues and 5,000 new direct

jobs.

The NDP has killed mining twice. It did so rst in the1970s. The second time came during their last time inofce when its hostility toward the mining industry costB.C. millions in revenues and thousands o jobs across

our province. Weve closed the gap by many importantmeasures yet we know with continuing support, moreprogress can still be made.

Today, there are 29,000 mining jobs in B.C. and another33 mine applications are working their way through theEnvironmental Assessment process.

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Fully support any mining project that has beensuccessul in securing Environmental AssessmentOfce approval.

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Todays BC Liberals saw the potential o the minerals sectorand are halway to their goal o 17 new mines.

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Continue to build on BC Jobs Plan promise thathas already delivered 10 new non-treaty benetagreements with B.C. First Nations to secure economicpartnerships. We commit to another 10 new non-treatybenet agreements with B.C. First Nations over thenext two years, like these success stories:

McLeod Lake ECDA with the province in relationto the Mount Milligan mine.

Tkemlumps and Skeetchestn Indian Band ECDAswith the province in relation to the New Aton mine.

Work with the ederal government to ensure miningprojects undergo only one environmental reviewprocess.

Extend the New Mine Allowance and other creditsallowing new mines and major mine expansions toreceive depreciation credits o up to 133 per cent rom2016 to 2020.

Complete the Northwest Transmission Line and IskutExtension opening up vast areas o Northwest B.C. tomining and mineral exploration.

Work with Geoscience B.C. to establish long term andpredictable unding to continue the $37-million workGeoscience B.C. is doing to oster oil, gas and mineral

exploration and development in B.C.

Continue to streamline mining application processes,ensuring they can all be done online with asterturnarounds or investors.

Encourage more secondary school apprenticeships

through partnerships like Mount Polley Mine andthe Cariboo Chilcotin School District model wherehigh school students get rst hand job experience atoperating mine sites.

New mines, new wealth

Every $1 invested in mining creates $2.50 in benets orthe B.C. economy. The direct jobs created are some o

B.C.s best paying, averaging $108,100. Mining createsservice, manuacturing, supply, nance, legal, educationand scientic jobs in every region o the province,beneting local and regional economies. We must resistthe backward-looking NDP policies on mine approvalsthat shrank the number o mines by 60 per cent in the1990s and made B.C. renowned as one o the worstjurisdictions or mining in the world. Today, the stars are

aligned or signicant sectoral growth: Red Chris (Dease Lake area)

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Treasure Mountain (Hope area)

Copper Mountain (Princetonarea)

Barkerville Gold Mine (Williams

Lake) New Aton (Kamloops)

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Under the NDP, two mines closed or every one that opened.

In the last year o the NDP, a mere $29 million was spent on explorationand development. Under Todays BC Liberals 2,300 per cent more wasinvested in 2012.

40 per cent o people working in B.C.s mining industry when the NDPtook power had lost their job by 2000.

By 2001, mining executives ranked B.C.s mining laws as the mostantagonistic o any jurisdiction in the world.

By committing to returning to a 12 per cent corporate tax rate, the NDP o2013 are showing they havent yet learned rom their mistakes. This policy isbad or job creators who need to generate prots to hire employees.

Thats not leadership. Thats the same old NDP.

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The agrioods sector provides more than 61,000 jobs andgenerates over $10.9 billion a year in provincial revenues.It is the most diverse agrioods industry in Canada and

has the potential to be a $14 billion powerhouse by 2017.Much o that potential can be realized in Asias marketswhere there is a growing demand or B.C. agrioods, withits strong reputation or quality, saety and taste. Thatswhy Premier Christy Clark has led three trade missions tothe continent to gain access to key emerging markets.

The all 2011 trade mission took part in the massiveFisheries and Seaood Show in Qingdao the worldssecond largest in terms o attendance and built businessrelationships with buyers and investors in Guangzhou.

Although its difcult or companies to estimate theimpact on their uture business, the Province expectsagrioods exports to China will increase by at least 10 percent in the year ahead.

Todays BC Liberals also recognize the importance

the agricultural sector plays in communities acrossBritish Columbia. Whether the community is urban orrural, communities need a thriving agricultural sectorto survive. Promoting 50- and 100-mile diets weavescommunities together and strengthens relationships

between producers and consumers, and putting B.C.vegetables and milk in classrooms raises awareness oeating resh, healthy and local oods.

Our plan is based on three strategies:

1. Focusing on high-quality, high-value products.

2. Expanding domestic and international markets.3. Staying competitive on taxes and regulations.

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Re-introduce Balanced Budget 2013 that provided $20

million in carbon tax relie or greenhouse and owergrowers and ongoing $4 million in carbon tax relieor armers who purchase coloured uel or use in theirarming equipment.

Give growers a tax credit o 25% o the wholesale valueo ood donated to a ood bank.

Begin work on a permanent and sustainable tree ruitreplant program, to be implemented ollowing thecurrent 3 year, $2 million program.

Add a urther $2 million to the Buy Local campaignbuilding on the original $2 million commitment in

August 2012. This will encourage consumers to think

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Our orests have built and sustained B.C.s amiliesand rural communities and provided the resources thathave built urban B.C. Forests are a cornerstone o our

economy, directly employing over 56,000 in 2012 andexporting goods totalling $10.2 billion.

The industry has been hit by unoreseeable impacts thepine beetle epidemic, the U.S. housing crash but it hasremained resilient and innovative, choosing to invest.B.C.s orest industry is growing again.

The BC Jobs Plan Forest Sector Strategy means growing

a strong orest industry that can take advantage o marketupturns and remain competitive when markets are sot.Success meant challenging ourselves and doing thingsdierently. Under the NDP, 27 mills closed permanentlybecause o red tape and punishing taxes that shrunkB.C.s orest industry even as it expanded in the rest oCanada.

Exports to China are up 1,500 per cent since 2011 andwe are expanding into India and South Korea. Withoutthese exports to China there would be up to 16 ewermills in operation today in British Columbia.

about where their ood comes rom and promote 50-and 100-mile diets or British Columbians.

Introduce a new meat inspection system eectiveJanuary 1, 2014 and work with the B.C. Association oCattle Feeders to develop and promote their CertiedB.C. Bee brand.

Continue to work with other provincial governmentsto break down barriers that prevent the movement oB.C. wine across provincial borders.

Create a Centre o Excellence or Agriculture at theUniversity o the Fraser Valley.

Have a major B.C. presence in the 5 large global

agricultural conventions. Work with the organic arming industry to develop a

B.C. Organic brand to promote the provincial organicood sector.

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New markets secure the uture

To protect B.C. rom trade challenges and marketdownturns in the United States and Japan, we knew wehad to sell our wood products to more countries aroundthe globe. That meant expanding our Asian outreach.

Helping the industry open markets in Asia is one waygovernment can help. We will continue to travel overseasto open new markets.

Access to timber

Banning exports o unprocessed logs wont solve timberaccess issues or mills, especially coastal ones. Even asthey promised to ban log exports in the 1990s, the NDPactually grew such exports rom nearly nothing to 3million cubic metres a year.

Our preerence is to have logs milled here at home, butlog exports are a key component to growing our coastalorest economy and keeping people employed in theorests o our province. We are committed to ensuringan approach that meets the needs o both domestic mills

and the economy in this province. With a balanced andprudent approach, Todays BC Liberals helped support3,000 to 4,000 jobs by accelerated auctions o wood.

Shares o B.C. Forest Products Exports (volume) by Destination

2006

2011

U.S.65.0%

Japan12.4%

China andHong Kong6.6%

Other16.0%

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Since 2001, British Columbia has committed $884 millionto battle the Mountain Pine Beetle and mitigate utureimpacts.

British Columbians are rightly proud o the work thathas been done to protect the special places we have inour province. When this work began, we had a target o12 per cent as a goal or protection and preservation. Wehave met this target.

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Co-sponsor with the orest industry annual B.C. trademissions to China, India, Japan and Korea to ensure

continued export growth in these established andemerging markets.

Provide up to $500,000 to be accessed by researcherswho can demonstrate projects designed to producenew products out o our provincial wood resource.

Work with the coastal orest industry to balance theneeds o those in the industry who need to export

unprocessed wood with mill owners who require woodin order to keep people employed in their mills.

Direct B.C. Timber Sales to identiy more wood or ourB.C. sawmills without compromising our obligations

under international trade agreements and the sotwoodlumber agreement.

Cellulose Filaments are long strands o cellulose woodbre that can be used to reinorce traditional pulp andpaper materials as well as bio-plastics and composites.Canada is at the leading edge o this technology but weneed to build a research centre that can help take the

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technology rom the lab into commercialization andeventually the marketplace. We have the technology,the expertise and the resource. We are committed toworking with industry to build a testing acility inChetwynd.

In addition to the 225 million trees being planted in

2013, we will increase annual silviculture activities inregions hit hard by the pine beetle epidemic by anadditional minimum $10 million annually starting in2015/16.

Assist aected communities as they ace the challengesand opportunities o transition through an improvedrural dividend program.

Following consultation with communities, industry,environmental organizations, orest proessionals, andFirst Nations; we will increase the diversity o area-basedorest management by enabling transition volume-basedlicenses where appropriate and consistent with themid-term timber supply recommendations, in order toenable investment in growing trees and adding value.

Implement the recently announced 10-year, $80-million

orest inventory plan to ensure 35 million hectares areinventoried in mountain pine beetle aected priorityareas. This inventory will be used to assess orest

condition orecasts, timber supply analysis, silviculture,timber harvest planning, habitat mapping, wildlie riskassessment and biodiversity assessments.

Implement regulations or new legislation thatwill provide bre security to bio-energy, pellet andsecondary manuacturing operators.

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B.C. has been built on its resource industries. The BCLiberal government has negotiated agreements withcommunities in Northeast B.C., such as a recently

signed ramework with Fort Nelson, to share in resourcerevenues to help build their communities and plan oruture growth.

With our opportunities in LNG and other resources, itstime to broaden resource sharing across rural B.C., toassist the communities in Northwest B.C. to prepare orthe LNG opportunity.

By seizing on our opportunities with natural resources wecan build communities in rural B.C.

Todays BC Liberals are proud o our resource industriesand the people who work in them. We are innovators, wehave stringent environmental protections, we have strongpartnerships with First Nations and we are globallycompetitive.

The NDP eel the need to apologize or B.C.s resourceindustries. Adrian Dix has agreed with his ederalleader Thomas Mulcair that Canada suers rom DutchDisease. Dix and Mulcair agree that resource jobs in

B.C. and the rest o Western Canada are hurting themanuacturing sector in Ontario and Quebec.

Dix believes B.C. should kill high paying resource jobsto benet Ontario and Quebec. Under his leadershipthe NDP would drive investment out o resourcecommunities just like they did in the 1990s.

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In recognition o the critical role rural BritishColumbia plays in generating wealth and economicopportunity or the province, commence revenuesharing discussions with rural resource communities,

especially those in Northwest B.C. to help themprepare or uture growth.

Continue to negotiate revenue sharing agreementswith First Nations.

Honour revenue-sharing agreement with Fort Nelsonand begin discussions with Peace River Regionto possibly extend the agreement between the

government o B.C. and the Peace River Region toensure communities in Northeast B.C. are able tomeet the needs that accompany signicant resourcedevelopment.

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Gaining the Edge is our strategy to help grow B.C.t0urism into an $18 billion sector by 2016. Today, itemploys over 127,000 people across the province and is a$13.4-billion sector.

B.C.s rst Family Day sent amilies ocking to enjoyski hills and other attractions providing a boost to ourprovincial tourism operators.

Premier Christy Clark ullled her promise to createDestination BC, our new provincial tourism operatingagency. It began operations in April 2013 and is industryled, allowing B.C. tourism operators to make decisions

or their sector.Tourism is one o the key economic areas identied in theBC Jobs Plan. Key accomplishments and plans include:

The revitalized BC Place home to the VancouverWhitecaps FC MLS ranchise and the BC Lions, hasbecome a world-class acility not only or sports butalso or major international perorming artists like PaulMcCartney and Taylor Swit. It brings in about $40million in additional economic activity each year.

Partnering with the Times o India to bring the Timeso India Film Awards (TOIFA) to British Columbia in

April 2013 showcasing B.C. to an estimated 400 millionviewers. Visitors rom India are up 11% this year andgrowing steadily one o our biggest growth markets.

The new Vancouver Convention Centre has allowedthe largest conventions in North America to cometo British Columbia, meet in Vancouver and then

tour the rest o the province. The NDP wasted $73million attempting to expand Vancouvers trade and

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co ve t o ce t e a couve a d t ey eve we tthrough with their plans.

Improved Nexus cross border access or U.S. visitors.

Extensive upgrades to transportation inrastructureacross the province directly benet tourism.

Budget 2012 eliminated a provincial jet uel tax oninternational ights. Since that time we have seennew international connections at YVR rom ChinaSouthern Airlines, Virgin Airways and Sichuan Airlines.

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Fully implement the Outdoor Recreational Vehicle

strategy to improve saety and develop new trailnetworks or residents and tourism businesses.

Invest $3 million per year beginning in 2015/16 toupgrade rest stops and visitor centres across BritishColumbia.

Advocate or new international direct ights to B.C.with a goal o three more by 2014.

Modernize Tourism Accommodation (AssessmentRelie) Act to reect increased property values.

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Todays BC Liberals have worked with the public andindustry in modernizing the system and promoting localenterprise. We will continue to put public saety rst,reduce outdated regulations, and support eorts to create

local jobs.

Brewers and distillers will help us develop a made-in-B.C. program designed to encourage consumersto buy local in government liquor stores across theprovince.

Allow brewpubs to own more than one establishment.

New crat distillery policy.

Catering regulatory changes. More Cold Beer and Wine stores since 2001.

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g 3 g$60 million or arts and culture in BC, $7 million higherthan last year. This includes $24 million to the BC ArtsCouncil which now has its highest unding levels everrom government.

Film industry

We support our lm industry through hundreds omillions o dollars in tax credits and incentives to keeplm here in B.C. The province provided about $330million or motion picture, television and interactivedigital media production tax credits in 2012-13.

Since the introduction o tax credits or the lm industry,government has been very supportive o the system,raising the tax credit three separate times.

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In January 2013, our government launched BC CreativeFutures, a three-part strategy to support sustainable,long-term success or the provinces creative sector.

BC Creative Futures helps oster a creative workorceby providing more arts opportunities or young BritishColumbians, by building a comprehensive, sector-widevision to support the development and growth o B.C.s

creative industries and by expanding capacity at EmilyCarr University o Art + Design.

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In addition to boosting the tax credit, Todays BCLiberals have encouraged the growing digital mediaindustry by increasing the ollowing:

Digital Animation or Visual Eects tax credit bonusincreased to 17.5 per cent rom 15 per cent;

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ggame development o 17.5 per cent o qualiying B.C.labour costs; and,

Qualied B.C. labour expenditures cap increased to 60per cent rom 48 per cent o production costs.

Matching Ontarios tax credits would cost B.C. taxpayersin excess o $100 million. A 2013 campaign promise byAdrian Dix will cost $75 million. Thats why B.C. undera new Todays BC Liberal government will call on otherprovinces to work together on lm incentive policiesacross Canada.

Adrian Dix and the NDP voted against every undingincrease and initiative we have provided to the arts and

culture community. In voting against the BC150 CulturalFund, Adrian Dix and the NDP voted against an initiativeexpected to generate $8 million annually or new arts andculture activities and programs across B.C.

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Work with the Provinces o Ontario and Quebec toestablish a rational lm incentive policy across Canadato prevent unaordable industry support systems.

Establish a BC Film ofce in Los Angeles to work withregional lm commissions and encourage televisionand lm production in British Columbia.

pp y pVictoria, putting it on a better competitive ooting withthe rest o B.C.

Create one-stop shop or investors looking to start newdigital ventures in British Columbia.

Include post-production as eligible or the DigitalAnimation or Visual Eects tax credit to encourageurther post-production in British Columbia.

Build on eorts to attract Bollywood productions toBritish Columbia through initiatives like the Times oIndia Film Awards.

Investing in the uture o a creative economy

Balanced Budget 2013 conrmed the $134 millioninvestment to build a new and expanded Emily CarrUniversity o Art + Design campus that will take thecreative high school graduates o today and turn theminto the creative job creators o tomorrow.

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BC Liberals believe in the technology industry and thepower o the private sector to grow and oster youngentrepreneurs. Together we have created a global hub

o expertise with new and established companies, andcentres o research excellence. Vancouver ranked 9thamong startup hubs in the world.

The Premiers Technology Council has published 13reports which helped rame the B.C. technology policy.Today, British Columbia is one o the most connectedjurisdictions in North America. At the end o 2008, accessto aordable, high-speed broadband service was available

to more than 92 per cent o British Columbians and withthe partnership between Telus and the province, over 99per cent o B.C. will have access to high-speed internet.The province has strong inormation technology, liesciences, alternative energy, new media and wirelesssectors and is home to the worlds leading uel cell cluster.

B.C. companies are at the leading edge o the green

economy, developing technologies to turn our abundantnatural resources into renewable energy. Finding newmarkets or solar, wind, bio-mass and other technologiescan help turn B.C. into a clean technology powerhouse.

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create and support jobs in the provinces technologysector and its main subsectors:

Clean technology

Inormation and communication technologies

Wireless, digital and screen-based media

Health and lie sciences

Twenty-our initiatives across government are alignedunder the strategys our key actions o:

Accelerating technology commercialization andadoption.

Building on regional strengths to create newopportunities.

Developing talent or a knowledge-based economy.

Expanding markets or B.C.s technology.

B.C. introduced the Small Business Venture CapitalProgram to encourage angel investors to support higher

risk start-up entrepreneurs. Under it, B.C. has issued over$152 million in tax credits. But more can be done to osterthe growing B.C. technology sector.


Further expand the Small Business Venture CapitalProgram by an additional $5 million in 2015/16.

Work with the BC Technology Industry Association toencourage the ederal government to adopt the sameprogram, thereby doubling tax credits available or BCtechnology entrepreneurs.

Work with the ederal government to expand theProvincial Nominee Program and encourage theworlds best and brightest technology minds torelocate to British Columbia.

Expand the BC Training Tax Credit Programto include co-op and intern placements in smalltechnology rms.

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Across B.C., small businesses keep more than a millionpeople working. Small businesses drive almost 55 percent o B.C. exports and represent 98 per cent o all ourbusiness. Premier Christy Clark and Todays BC Liberalsbelieve in reeing up small business rom regulatoryburdens that make it impossible to grow. Contrast that tothe 1990s, when 400 new regulations were added, everyyear, and small business was taxed at the second highestrate in the country.

B.C. has the second highest number o emale smallbusiness owners in the country. We have invested$100,000 with the Womens Enterprise Centre to

encourage new women entrepreneurs in the province.

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Give small business owners a 40 per cent tax cut bylowering the small business tax rate rom 2.5 per centto 1.5 per cent no later than the 2017/18 scal year with

at least a 0.5% reduction in 2015/16. Launch the Premiers Small Businesses o the Year

awards, with winners selected by small businessesaround the province in concert with the Canadian

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associations.

Streamline RFP processes or government procurementto ensure small businesses can compete or governmentcontracts on a more level playing eld.

Limit RFP paperwork or government to a maximumo two pages or contracts under $250,000 so that smallbusinesses can apply and compete.

We will work to establish a minimum 20 per centincrease in small business procurement romgovernment.

Less red tape or mobile businesses by working withmunicipal groups to secure inter-municipal businesslicences especially in the Metro Vancouver and Capitalregional districts.

Create a new Premiers Womens Economic AdvisoryCouncil to provide ace-to-ace eedback on howgovernment policy changes can help urther womensbusiness opportunities in the province.


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Independent Business, News Release, Jan. 2013, announcing thatBC was the only province to receive an A in

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Low taxes, streamlined regulations and inrastructure arewhat manuacturers look or because they need to maketheir goods and get them to customers quickly.

Todays BC Liberals created conditions necessary or new

jobs and GDP growth. Pacic Gateway transportationinvestments like the South Fraser Perimeter Road havetransormed the movement o goods.

From companies like Viking Air in Victoria that isbuilding new de Havilland Twin Otter airplanes, tourniture manuacturers in the Fraser Valley, ourmanuacturing sector is on the rise. In 2011 the sectorgrew by 3.1 per cent aster growth than the provincialeconomy.

Manuacturing sectors, like aerospace, show a lot opromise.

Shipbuilding

Working with Seaspan, we helped to secure the uture oshipbuilding in B.C. with a minimum $8-billion ederalcontract. Combined with other operations at Seaspan,this will create more than 4,000 jobs over eight years.

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specic apprenticeship training credits. This is in linewith the BC Jobs Plan goal o enhancing access to skillsand apprenticeship training throughout the province, intouch with regional labour market needs.

The demand-oriented BC Jobs Plan or shipbuilding is

in stark contrast to the union-driven Adrian Dix NDPshipbuilding policy. It let taxpayers on the hook or$463 million and resulted in three ast erries that neverworked and had to be sold at a massive loss.

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Leverage the Federal Industrial Regional BenetsPrograms to attract global aerospace and deencecontractors to B.C. This would be assisted by aninvestment o $5 million over ve years to kick startthe development o a unied B.C. aerospace cluster toattract investment and integrated contract sourcingrom global rms.


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The BC Jobs Plan requires a stable business environment.Years o BC Liberal perseverance have paid o withrelative labour peace across British Columbia. B.C.slongshore workers and oremen have signed contractsthat ensure stability at our ports through 2018. In thepublic sector, the Cooperative Gains Mandate led tolabour stability with no additional money needed romtaxpayers. The proposed 10-year teachers agreementpromises a return to airness or both workers andworking amilies.

Under an NDP government, this era o labour peace is atrisk. The agenda o the labour leaders who are nancing,

quarterbacking and promoting the Adrian Dix campaignwould become the agenda o all British Columbia promising to sap our economic strength as happened thelast time they were in power.

In particular, big labour wants to eliminate the secretballot during certication drives. The secret ballotallowed Licensed Practical Nurses to reely choose theBCNU as their bargaining agent. When we introduced

this change in the legislature, the NDP voted against it.

We believe that all ballots should be secret. I its theright way to choose your political leaders, it should be

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Not change provisions surrounding secret ballotsduring a certication drive.

With respect to nurses:

Work with the B.C. Medical Association, B.C.Nurses Union and provincial health authoritiesto improve the scope o practice or nursepractitioners especially in primary care settings andunderserved areas o the province.

Work with B.C. Nurses Union to reduceaccreditation wait times or qualied nurses who arelanded immigrants.

Ensure that B.C.s Licensed Practical Nurseswho democratically voted to leave the HospitalEmployees Union to be represented by the B.C.Nurses Union have their voices heard and arerepresented by the BCNU in contract negotiations

ollowing consultations with the impacted labourunions.

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Strong Economy

2. Modernizing education and skills trainingA strong economy starts with a strong workorce and thatmeans investing in education.

Working amilies need barriers removed so they canparticipate ully in the economy knowing their childrenare getting the best start. We owe it to our children totest and challenge them as they progress through school.Intense demand or skilled trades people is only growing

so our plans ocus on in-demand skill sets or the regionsthat need them. In higher education, scal discipline hasallowed us to keep tuition costs down while ensuringmaximum classroom seats or students.

We support the Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA)because it helps measure how our students are doing andprovides critical inormation or success. Even though theNDP created the Foundation Skills Assessment tests, they

have attacked standardized testing, causing instability inclassrooms and conusion or parents and students.

a t ptc t cLast year, Premier Christy Clark and her team beganworking to build a ramework to bring peace ineducation. For the past 25 years virtually every contractnegotiation between the B.C. Teachers Federation andgovernment has led to a strike, with the lives o students,parents and teachers disrupted no matter which party

was in government.

There has to be a better way.

And there is. We created a document outlining a 10-yearlabour agreement between teachers and government.

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Immediately begin discussions with BCPSEA and theBC Teachers Federation to achieve a 10-year collectiveagreement with the B.C. Teachers Federation, which:

Oers the membership o the BCTF the average o abasket o public sector settlements. I the BCTF hadbargained under that structure during the past decade,teachers would not have had any classroom disruptionson the basis o compensation, and would have actuallyhad a higher wage increase than they received aterstrikes and job actions.

Commit signicant unds to address classroom sizeand composition challenges across the province.

Since 2000, British Columbia children have risen in theirmathematics ranking in Programme or International Student

Assessment (PISA) testing. Today they do better than studentsin three-quarters o other jurisdictions.

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The Early Years Strategy means your Todays BC Liberalgovernment is using resources wisely to give children thestart in lie they need:

Full-day kindergarten has been implemented, along

with StrongStart BC early learning program andunding or the Roots/Seeds o Empathy program.

The Child Care Subsidy Program has an annualbudget o $142 million to support care or over 50,000children including a supplement or children withspecial needs.

Over $34.8 million invested in the Success By 6

program to support early learning, nutrition and amilyservices in more than 225 communities across B.C.

Allocate an additional $32 million over three years tosupport creation o up to 2,000 new licensed child carespaces with the goal o creating 13,000 more spaces byyear 8.

We will re-introduce Balanced Budget 2013 which

outlines the creation o a Provincial Ofce or the EarlyYears to ensure multiministry activities across governmentare well coordinated and targeted.

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Make child care easier to nd by requiring local schoolboards to establish a policy promoting the use oschool property between the hours o 7am and 6pm

on weekdays by licensed child care providers. This willhelp provide additional child care options or parentso 5-12 year old students who require beore or aterschool care.

o children with special needs via the Ministry oChildren and Family Development, creating one-stopaccess to practical advice and support.

Create a province-wide child care registry to provide

parents with better inormation about the availabilityo spaces in their community.

Work with the early childhood developmentcommunity to improve the Early Childhood Educatorand out-o-school care provider quality.

ac ect

We are keeping B.C.s tuition rates competitive with therest o Canada, while at the same time investing $1.9billion this year to grow our institutions and ensurestudents have the courses they need.

The last time the NDP was in government, they rozetuition but ailed to provide universities with unding tomake up or the lost revenue resulting in ewer classes,

longer wait lists and higher cut-o points or admission.The BC Liberal government has created 23 per cent moreseats. Under the NDP, students oten took ve or sixyears to graduate adding signicant cost simply becausethey could not access the courses they needed.


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In B.C. we have a number o world recognized post-secondary institutions. From UBC, which is ranked 30th

in a list o global universities, to UVic and SFU whichare also ranked among the countrys top institutions, B.C.students are ortunate to be able to study at these highquality schools, right here at home.

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Limit tuition ee increases to a maximum o 2 per centthrough our next term in ofce.

Provide ree text books to university and collegestudents. As the average cost o a text book today is

Commit to a urther 20 textbooks be made availableonline to students once the rst 40 have been selectedby the Open Textbook committee.

sc Tt C mcAs announced in Throne Speech 2013, the governmentwill partner with a publicly unded post-secondaryinstitution to develop a School o Traditional ChineseMedicine.

Immediately ollowing the election, a BC Liberal

government will convene an advisory committee tohelp guide the development o this new school.

Regional ocus targets local demands

Were working with local institutions and industrythrough the Regional Workorce Tables to ensure thetraining being oered meets with the local job demands.Concrete steps weve taken:

A labour-market-driven student aid program thatencourages students to take in-demand training inregions where theres a need or those skills such as

Source: Ministry o Advanced Education

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Thompson Rivers University.

StudentAid BCs loan orgiveness program pays backa students loan, in ull, when a grad agrees to workin publicly unded acilities, in underserved areas o

B.C. eligible careers such as medicine, nursing andmidwiery.

Government has committed new capital projects including nearly $60 million or new trades trainingacilities at Camosun & Okanagan Colleges and $17million in new training equipment to put the latesttools in the hands o students. This builds on thehundreds o millions in new capital expenditures on

campuses province-wide in recent years.

Government has added seven new universities toprovide venues or in-demand education or training, incommunities closer to home.

B.C. requires new degree proposals to be supported bya business case that addresses labour market demandor the proposed degree.

At a time when resources were especially tight, PremierChristy Clark and her Cabinet recognized the valueto amilies and communities o stable unding or arts,culture and sports.

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Reintroduce Balanced Budget 2013 that provided $60million in new and reallocated unding to continue theSports and Arts Legacy Fund originally introduced inBudget 2010.

$18 million added unding or programming thatincreases youth participation in the arts.

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British Columbias skills trainingsystem is the envy o the country.Every year the system is graduating

more skilled workers ready to taketheir place in the economy. TodaysBC Liberals want to build on thislegacy, and urther expand andmodernize the apprenticeshipsystem so more young workers canget certied and get working as

quickly as possible.

The NDP and organized labour have a plan that will dothe opposite.

In 2004 the BC Liberals created the Industry TrainingAuthority that opened up the training system andbrought more people into training. Though governmentstill sets the ground rules and oversees the process oranticipating uture demand, the ITA is independent acontrast to what it replaced: a bureaucratic and costlyapparatus rooted in the past.

Under the NDP, the system was broken. Now the systemis working.

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The BC Liberal approach to skills training andapprenticeships is more inclusive. First Nations

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participation doubled between 2006 and 2011. Since2004, there has been a 300 per cent increase in youthparticipation.

Over the next decade, there will be more than one million

job openings in British Columbia, 43 per cent o them inthe skilled trades.

You might expect the NDP to applaud a demand-drivenskills training system that will address this need and thathas 33,000 registered apprentices in the career pipeline.

I you thought that, youd be wrong.

Risk o going backwardsThe NDP voted against creating the ITA and creatingthousands o new opportunities or young people. Theyhave assigned the union movement to drat the partys2013 labour platorm. This is why Adrian Dix claims thereis a crisis in skills training.

The unions are pressing the Adrian Dix NDP to undo

our work and restore old-style quotas, compulsory trades,counsellors and costly enorcement.

Under the NDP, unions would move to take over the jobo the ree-market economy.

Every year we graduate a record number o apprentices.In 2013 B.C. is training more than twice as manyapprentices as the NDP did. HRSD Canada reportedthat 85 per cent o B.C. apprentices passed their Red Sealexams. In the rest o the country 77 per cent passed.

Today there is a healthy relationship between learners,trainers, and employers. The goal is to achievecompetency in skills that are o practical use on todays

job sites.

Instead o listening to demand, the NDP would partnerwith unions to control supply and drive up costs.

School districts are receiving help to coordinateregional sessions to review labour needs andopportunities


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A government that abandons the apprenticeship programin its current orm will veer away rom the BC Jobs Plangoal o ensuring that British Columbians are rst in lineor those 430,000 new trades jobs.

Making the most o opportunity

Federal statistics show B.C.s completion rates are in linewith the Canadian pattern, a trend we need to continuestudying. B.C. stands out because o its huge growth incertications that oset small decreases in completionrates.

Todays BC Liberals Strong Economy, Secure Tomorrowplatorm is about progress or all. Highlights o our workso ar:

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Expanding opportunities or students to beginapprenticeships beore they graduate high school.

Giving school districts more exibility in applyingprovincial unding or scholarships and awards toencourage student participation in trades and technicaltraining.

opportunities.

Funding

Upgrading training acilities and equipment througha $75-million investment on top o the $500 millionannually invested in skills training.

In 2012, B.C. provided $17 million to support publicpost-secondary institutions to upgrade equipment.


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Urban Workers Program to encourage workers 55 andover to remain in the workorce.

low liTeraCy: B.C. invested almost $430,000 topartner with Canadian Manuacturers and Exporters

to provide training to workers with low literacy.

CooPeraTion

College o the Rockies has a partnership with TeckCoals ve Elk Valley mines to place heavy-dutymechanic and industrial electrician apprentices at theve mines or their apprenticeship hours.

Between 2008-2012, the Labour Market Agreementbetween Canada and B.C. provided training toapproximately 74,000 people around B.C.

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Last year, B.C. saw a record number o qualiedtradespersons enter B.C.s labour market.

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Across the province there are examples o innovativeprograms that allow high school students the opportunityto gain real-world on the job experience by linkingschools with employers. Districts like Powell River andCariboo Chilcotin, to name two, have programs in placewhere students earn high school credits while earningon the job experience with employers. In act, PowellRiver is placing students directly with employers upon

graduation into well paying vocational jobs.

Through the Industry Training Authority and Ministry oEducation, programs have been developed that provide

new opportunities or vocational training while still inhigh school. Ace-It, the Secondary School ApprenticeshipProgram and the Youth in Trades all play roles in

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Program, and the Youth in Trades all play roles indeveloping the apprentices o today and the red seal holderso tomorrow.

But we need to do more.

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Work with school boards to enhance and expandvocational training paths in high schools, especially orthose students who know early on they wish to pursuetrades training.

Encourage partnerships between employers andhigh schools to oer improved opportunities andscholarships or students.

Expand opportunities or students to beginapprenticeships beore they graduate high school.

Give school districts more exibility in applyingprovincial unding or scholarships and awards to

encourage student participation in trades and technicaltraining.

Provide help to school districts to coordinate regionalsessions to review labour needs and opportunities.

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Families are at the centre o everything we stand or asTodays BC Liberals. They inorm our priorities, romprotecting B.C. during uncertain times in the globaleconomy, to ensuring quality services, to setting aside aday each year to celebrate Family Day.

To protect our accomplishments and build a securetomorrow, we need to grow the economy and make liemore aordable or amilies by reducing taxes.

Opening up new markets in Asia and securingopportunities like LNG mean we will be able to aordmore investments in health care, public saety, justice,and protecting the environment.

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A strong economy delivers a secure tomorrow

For three successive terms, Todays BC Liberals haveshown they can match scal responsibility with a high

standard o citizen protection.

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Since 2001 government has spent more than $840 million

Costly, delay-prone and overly complex justice processesare unair to citizens and we continually ght or bettersolutions.


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British Columbians deserve to eel sae in theircommunities. We will continue to crack down on crimeby ensuring B.C.s police ofcers have the tools they need.We are committed to providing secure, stable undingand adopting cutting-edge technologies and techniques.

Police costs continue to rise requiring us to developexible, collaborative solutions.

on seismic upgrades o schools in 37 districts. To date,143 school seismic upgrade projects are completed. Inthe 1990s, the NDP cancelled the seismic upgradeo Van Tech Secondary but carried one out or a

liquor warehouse distribution centre nearby; in the2009 election they promised no new money or seismicupgrades.

Highlights o our track record:

In the last decade, personal and property crime hasallen aster in B.C. than any other province.

B.C. now has the toughest impaired driving laws thathave resulted in over 100 ewer deaths due to drunkdriving.

Created the Independent Investigations Ofce,meaning that incidents o death or serious injuryinvolving police are now investigated by anindependent organization rather than police

themselves. This change marks a new era otransparency or policing in B.C. and strengthenspublic aith in our justice system.

The Community Saety Act will enable people tosubmit condential complaints to a new provincialunit designed to investigate problem properties andcurb threatening and dangerous activities. The actwill target the sites o specic and criminal activitiesincluding drug production and trafcking, prostitution,illegal liquor sales, child abuse, possession o illegalweapons or explosives and activities conducted bygangs or organized crime.

B.C.s new Civil Foreiture Act seizes and sells propertyobtained through illegal activities in B.C. It hasdistributed over $9 million in proceeds rom crime to

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Work with the Legal Services Society to expand LSSwork in criminal and amily law situations.

Move trafc tickets out o the provincial courts into anadministrative tribunal reeing up valuable court timeand resources or more important matters.

Develop a ramework or specialized courts, includingdomestic violence courts.

Work with police departments and communities inMetro Vancouver and the Capital Regional Districtto determine whether a regional policing system canbetter meet the needs o citizens while being aordableto taxpayers in those two regions.

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