Take back your BC because everyone matters : BC NDP platform 2009

In these pages you will find our commitments to provide a significant tax cut to families and business, to invest in vital green infrastructure and jobs, to improve public health care and education, and to stop the giveaway of BC’s rivers, streams and forest lands to private interests. [...] Generations of British Columbians have made a living in the bush or the mills, the mines or the smelters, on our farms and ranches, and in the process have built communities small and large in every region of this province. [...] Carole James and the NDP will stand up for resource workers and communities, and will revitalize and modernize BC’s resource and rural industries. [...] The BC Liberals’ drive to export more raw logs has meant the export of jobs and opportunities, and the closure of mills. [...] Carole James and the NDP are committed to expanding support for arts and culture throughout BC, including for First Nations, through: Restoring 2009 funding cuts to the arts and increasing the budget for the BC Arts Council.