Conservative Party leader proud of what his party has accomplished, says it ran out of time
Conservative Party of B.C. John Rustad Tuesday said his party would support government policies that support"average, everyday working" persons in B.C., but also repeated earlier promises to bring down the B.C. NDP government under Premier David Eby.
While two seats are subject to judicial recounts, Rustad acknowledged that his party currently lacks a path toward assuming government."Our job going forward in opposition is to make sure that we fight for the values and fight for the things that the Conservative Party stands for, those things we have been fighting for...for the last year and a half, those things that we fought during the election.
On the subject of affordability, Eby also promised to fulfill his election promise to eliminate the consumer portion of the carbon tax if Ottawa drops the legal requirement.Rustad said his party will hold Eby to his word."We will push and try to figure out how we can leverage that to get rid of the entire carbon tax, but it is an important piece of affordability that's needed in British Columbia.
Rustad added that"at this stage" that he would not looking at offering one of our members to be speaker.
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