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VICTORIA – Premier John Horgan’s government is promising the largest investments in affordable housing and child care in British Columbia’s history, as part of a throne speech Tuesday that offered a preview of next week’s provincial budget but few details on the timeline, scope or cost of the relief for British Columbians.

“We begin this year by making a difference in the cost of child care for tens of thousands of families with the largest investment in child care in B.C. history,” read the speech, delivered at the legislature by Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon.

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B.C. will begin by converting unlicensed spaces to regulated child care spots, as well as building new spaces as well. There were no details on the number of spaces or money allocated to the program.

The NDP government also appears to have dropped the slogan“$10-a-day child care,” which the party campaigned heavily upon in the May 2017 election but which its power-sharing partners the B.C. Greens do not support.