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Commits to repeal the Health Professions and Occupations Act.

• Asked by the HPOA candidate questionnaire (Psychologists of BC for Ethical Care and Governance): "Will you commit to repealing the Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA) and replacing it with legislation, built with the professions and the public, that keeps politics out of health care?"
• Commit to repealing the HPOA
• Keep health-profession oversight independent and free from political interference

Confidence:High

Tahlan wants accessible healthcare, safer communities and more affordable homes from an accountable government.

• Build accessible healthcare
• Build safer communities and more affordable homes
• A government that listens and is accountable

Confidence:High

Tahlan wants more affordable homes, safer communities and accessible healthcare from an accountable government.

• Build more affordable homes
• Build safer communities and accessible healthcare
• A government that listens and is accountable

Confidence:High

CentreBC cost-of-living plan aims to save a two-income family ~$640 a year; Sturko says people struggle to afford the basics.

• Plan would reverse the NDP's 2026 increase to the lowest income tax bracket, to 5.06% from Jan. 1, 2027
• Raise the renter's tax credit to $600, cap BC Hydro increases, and hold ICBC increases at or below inflation

Confidence:High

Would change the political and economic models that let the very rich get richer while the rest fall further behind.

• Change the models that let the very rich get richer while the rest fall behind

Confidence:High

Sturko would double the Manufacturing Jobs Fund to $60M for prefab housing, mass timber and B.C. food processing, plus $60M for training.

• Announcement at a Bridgeview (North Surrey) campaign stop, Oct 9, reported by Peace Arch News
• New funding streams for companies building prefabricated homes, making mass timber and finished wood products, processing and storing B.C. food
• Would use lumber for finished products rather than "shipping logs out of the province", with prefab emphasis for housing
• No prior economy-jobs row for Sturko (her Oct 20 'economy'-slug row uses a shared-taxonomy slug and would fail import — see notes)

Confidence:High

Keep and fully fund class size and composition limits; add supports.

• Keep class size and class composition limits in teachers contracts and fund them fully
• 25,000 permanent new student spaces by 2031
• Bring back letter grades for Grade 4 and up
• Add 1,500 education assistants

Confidence:High

Tahlan wants to build safer communities, bringing his security and risk-management background to an accountable government.

• Build safer communities in Surrey South
• Bring two decades of security and risk-management experience to public service
• A government that listens and is accountable

Confidence:High

Wants more transit investment, incl. 24-hour service in Campbell Heights so sites can run shifts.

• Calls transit key infrastructure for the economy
• Cites Campbell Heights industrial park lacking overnight service
• Made the point at the Oct 20 Surrey & White Rock Board of Trade all-candidates forum

Confidence:High

Return the province’s books to balance within two terms.

• A path to balance in two terms

Confidence:High

Tahlan wants a government that listens and is accountable, bringing his security background to safer communities.

• A government that listens and is accountable
• Take responsibility when it matters, from a security-career background
• Build safer communities, affordable homes, accessible healthcare

Confidence:High