![]() ![]() Instead, he was in Ottawa, strategizing with premiers to squeeze a new health-care deal out of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. You couldn’t craft a bigger insult to Eby, the rookie premier who is trying desperately to differentiate himself from the John Horgan administration through bold policies and solutions to the biggest problems of our times.įirstly, Eby wasn’t at the legislature to deliver the speech. “It feels like déjà vu,” remarked BC Green leader Sonia Furstenau. At one point, during the section in which the NDP for the sixth consecutive year patted itself on the back for cancelling bridge tolls and MSP premiums, the document veered precariously-close to becoming a sleep-aid tool for those suffering insomnia. It was like reading an instruction manual for a toaster. A veritable spend-a-palooza is upon the province.Īnd yet, this throne speech was, for lack of a better term, snooze inducing. It’s all a bit perplexing, because this is a premier who has been making announcements at the speed of light during his first 100 days, and very clearly has another avalanche of announcements on the near horizon.Įby is sitting on almost $10 billion in surplus and unallocated cash, with a deadline to spend it by March 31. Voters looking to gauge the rookie premier’s thoughts on his government’s first legislative session would be hard-pressed to make sense of the remarkably dour and vague scattershot of themes that passed for his first throne speech Monday.Īt 26 pages, and more than 5,000 words, it said very little of substance on what his new government intends to do over the next few months. It’s a shame he didn’t write many of them down for his first throne speech.
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