The B.C. government unveiled its 182-page budget for the 2023 fiscal year, and we broke down five highlights that you should know.
The NDP government has followed-through on its twice-promised rebate for renters — but it falls short of what was promised during its election campaigns.
The amount is reduced based on income, and anyone whose household earns more than $80,000 won’t qualify.Birth control, Plan B, and IUDs will be free for British Columbians starting April 1. The government is also moving to allow pharmacists to prescribe prescription contraception, freeing up people from having to visit a doctor.Stakeholders in the budget lockup said the NDP are running the risk of creating a two-tier addictions treatment system — some beds cost people money, other beds don't. Sort of like an odd long-term care bed system, based on your income.
The province is spending almost $1 billion on mental health and addictions over the next three years.It will also expand a combined mental-health and substance-use treatment model called the Red Fish Healing Centre, in Coquitlam, to the rest of the province.The new government funding does not make all treatment beds free from user fees up to $40 per day, unlike a planOn health care, $2.
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