A business environment for the new economy

Growing sustainable enterprises in BC

Encouraging emerging opportunities

The economy will be a major issue in the 2017 B.C. provincial election, with the incumbent B.C Liberal government running primarily on the strength of the province’s economic performance. However, the B.C. Liberal’s measures of success — GDP growth and job creation — paint an incomplete economic picture. It ignores that GDP growth has been driven by a red-hot, but limited housing market, that the benefits of this growth have primarily gone to the already-wealthy, and that the jobs that have been created are frequently part-time, insecure and unevenly distributed throughout the province.

The BC Green Party believes that the economy is not an end in itself. Instead, the economy should promote the health and wellbeing of the people of B.C. At present, the B.C. economy does not live up to that measure of success.

Meanwhile, the BC NDP, after 16 years in opposition and 4 lost elections, have failed to convince British Columbians that they can be trustworthy stewards of B.C.’s dynamic economy.

The world is changing. Between automation, exponential advances in technology, climate change, global political instability and resource depletion, B.C. needs a strong vision and an actionable strategy in order to succeed amidst these rapid, tectonic shifts. However, the piecemeal approach of both parties does not provide the agility required to succeed under these fast-changing conditions.

The B.C. Green Party is the only party that is presenting a platform that ensures opportunities created today are also available to the next generation. The key objectives of our platform that will run through this release and the ones to come are:

Economic security;

Sustainability and intergenerational equity; and,

Responsible government.

A B.C. Green government will introduce policies that promote innovation and sustainable enterprise and ensure an equitable future for all British Columbians for decades to come — not just until the next election is held.