Robert Crooks
BC Communist candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona
Affordability
Childcare
BC Communist promises
Make a genuine long-term commitment to a public universal, affordable, high quality child care system desperately needed by working class families.
Implement an Early Childhood Educator (ECE) Wage Grid paying at least $35 – $45/hr.
Expand school-age spaces and facilities in elementary schools in partnership with public, non-profit and Indigenous groups.
Stabilize and expand existing $10-a-Day programs with long-term budgets based on an equitable funding formula.
Ensure childcare is accessible to shiftworkers.
Food costs
BC Communist promises
End removals from the Agricultural Land Reserve, encourage food production in urban areas.
Increase provincial funding to ensure that all school districts can offer hot breakfast and lunch programs for all K-12 students.
Implement price controls on essential grocery items.
Fuel and transportation costs
BC Communist promises
Nationalize the energy industry to offer fuel to people at subsidized prices.
Expand public transit and make it free.
Post-secondary costs and loans
BC Communist promises
Post secondary should be free; educating our youth is one of the best investments a country can make.
Cancel all student debt.
Poverty
BC Communist promises
Abolish income tax on earnings under $50,000.
Roll back the tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations given in 2001 by the Campbell Liberals and fund education, housing, transit, and social services through progressive provincial taxation.
Implement a Guaranteed Annual Livable Income.
Public transit
BC Communist promises
Free public transit for all.
Create an accessible province-wide bus transit system. Immediately create and enforce transit-only lanes in major cities to speed up transit and encourage more bus ridership.
lace transit under public ownership and democratic control.
Seniors' benefits
BC Communist promises
Raise social assistance, disability rates and pension by 100%.
Legislate to limit rents to 20% of household income.
Tax measures and rebates
BC Communist promises
Shift the tax burden off working people and make corporations pay their fair share.
Abolish income tax on earnings under $50,000.
Roll back the tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations given in 2001 by the Campbell Liberals and fund education, housing, transit, and social services through progressive provincial taxation.
Climate Change & the Environment
Adaptation to climate change
BC Communist promises
Cut hydrocarbon emissions now.
Prioritize renewable energy and conservation.
Conservation and envionmental protection
BC Communist promises
Cancel taxpayer subsidies to the LNG industry, make them pay higher levies to profit from the people’s resources.
Implement just a transition – retrain fossil fuel sector workers for other jobs in green energy union wages.
Make polluting corporations pay for reversing the environmental damage they’ve caused.
Forestry industry
BC Communist promises
Keep BC resources and jobs in BC.
Use public investment and ownership to create good union jobs while protecting old-growth forests and respecting Indigenous title and consent.
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Power generation
BC Communist promise
Expand public ownership over natural resources and begin a serious transition to renewable energy.
Public transit
BC Communist promises
Free public transit for all.
Create an accessible province-wide bus transit system. Immediately create and enforce transit-only lanes in major cities to speed up transit and encourage more bus ridership.
lace transit under public ownership and democratic control.
Education
Childcare
BC Communist promises
Make a genuine long-term commitment to a public universal, affordable, high quality child care system desperately needed by working class families.
Implement an Early Childhood Educator (ECE) Wage Grid paying at least $35 – $45/hr.
Expand school-age spaces and facilities in elementary schools in partnership with public, non-profit and Indigenous groups.
Stabilize and expand existing $10-a-Day programs with long-term budgets based on an equitable funding formula.
Ensure childcare is accessible to shiftworkers.
Indigenous learning
BC Communist promises
Indigenize the BC education curriculum to foster solidarity and collaboration with Indigenous resistance struggles and to promote inclusivity, cooperation, and justice.
Equalize funding for education both on and off reserve
Post-secondary costs and loans
BC Communist promises
Post secondary should be free; educating our youth is one of the best investments a country can make.
Cancel all student debt.
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Reconciliation & Indigenous Nations
Transit & Transportation
Fuel and transportation costs
BC Communist promises
Nationalize the energy industry to offer fuel to people at subsidized prices.
Expand public transit and make it free.
Public transit
BC Communist promises
Free public transit for all.
Create an accessible province-wide bus transit system. Immediately create and enforce transit-only lanes in major cities to speed up transit and encourage more bus ridership.
lace transit under public ownership and democratic control.
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