BC Legislature resumes in person

PRINCE GEORGE – With summer done, the legislature will resume on Monday and, for the first time in many months, in person. Leader of the Opposition, Shirley Bond, says there are times to put aside partisan politics.

“When we’re in times of crisis, when we’re seeing the kinds of circumstances that we’re seeing not only in Northern Health but other health authorities, there are times when we set aside that partisan approach for what’s in the best interests of the people we represent,” she says. ‘But there are also hard questions that need to be asked and answered.”

Some of the questions that need to be asked and answered focus on an unprecedented summer, with wildfires that burned over 648,000 hectares, or more than one and a half million acres, of forest, destroying entire communities, like Lytton. That was capped off with a heat dome that Bond says claimed the lives of 600 British Columbians, primarily frail seniors.