About the Legislature’s Spring Session

By Bill Bennett

Kootenay East MLA

1. The most recent sitting of the legislature wrapped up May 19. The session began in February with the Throne Speech, which affirmed the government’s commitment to job creation and maintaining Canada’s number one economy in globally uncertain times.

2. During the session, the government introduced its fourth consecutive balanced budget, the only balanced budget in Canada and passed legislation that I introduced to strengthen compliance and enforcement in the mining sector. Our focus is the economy and jobs.

3. The government also took action to support rural communities through the Rural Dividend Program. This, along with a number of other actions – a committed minimum wage increase, the elimination of MSP for children, and many others – means we are taking the actions required to ensure B.C. will not become the high unemployment place that so many other provinces are.

This message funded by Bill Bennett

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