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The biggest concern I hear from people

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on the doors is folks either born and raised

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in Canada or immigrated to Canada

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for a better life. They followed the rules,

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they worked hard, they paid their taxes,

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and now they're retiring and they don't have

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a family doctor. That's

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not fair. That's not my Canada.

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Hi, Jaime.

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Hey, Sarah, good to see you.

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Can you introduce yourself?

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Yeah, my name is Jaime Stein.

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I'm the Conservative candidate for Vancouver-Langara.

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Why are you running in Vancouver-Langara?

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Thank you. So for me,

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I've seen a lot of people talk,

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but not a lot of people act.

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And I said, you know what,

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it's time for me to jump in the ring.

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And it's time to bring my experience

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to serve my community in Vancouver-Langara

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and also the people of British Columbia.

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So I've done a lot of work

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with combating hate, combating antisemitism,

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and I feel that we're at a point now where

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we need people to step up and help create

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a better society, and

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One of the things I hear when I talk to people

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at the doors is how hard it is right now

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to live here in Vancouver and in British

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Columbia. It's gotten really expensive after

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nine years of the NDP government,

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and people are having trouble making ends

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meet, and I want to make sure

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that we're able to support the people

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in our communities.

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In your view,

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what are the main problems with the current

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provincial approach to housing

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and affordability?

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And what would a Conservative government do

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differently?

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So we're staring at a $13 billion deficit

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caused by David Eby and the NDP government.

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That is going to cripple the next

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generation. So I worry about my kids,

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I worry about your kids,

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I worry about everybody's kids and what

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they're going to be left with if we don't

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act now. And so it's on us

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in the Conservative Party, if we form

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government, to look at the finances

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of British Columbia.

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So one of the first things that we would do

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is raise the basic personal income tax

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exemption rate to $32,000.

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So what does that mean for a family?

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A family could see up to $2,000 back

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in their pocket,

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an individual could see an extra $1,000 back

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in their pocket, and that will go a long way

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to helping people deal

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with the affordability crisis that the NDP

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has created here in British Columbia.

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A lot of people, they'll focus on cutting costs,

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but one area that we can focus

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on is generating revenue. So how do we help

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small business owners? How do we help tourism?

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How do we help the resource sector?

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Build a bigger pie, because

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with that we can generate more revenue, which

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can then help everybody within our society,

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whether it's with better healthcare,

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we can find better ways for affordable

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housing, and we can keep people

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in our communities.

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That's what really breaks my heart,

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is that a lot of the people I grew up with

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are no longer able to live in the community

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that they were born and raised in.

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I want to make sure my kids and the families

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in Langara can continue to have

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their children raised in the community

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that they grew up in.

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What do you see

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as the biggest failures in the current

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health care system,

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particularly around access to family doctors

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and wait times?

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So look, my relationship to healthcare goes

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back almost 20 years.

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My father died of leukemia when he was 60

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years old, and he was waiting for a stem

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cell transplant.

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He wasn't able to get one.

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And so I looked at the system and said,

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how can I help?

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How can I help other people not go through

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what my father went through?

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And I worked with Canadian Blood Services.

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We raised $12.5 million and built

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Canada's umbilical cord blood bank.

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And when my daughter was born at BC Women's

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Hospital, she was one of the first babies

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to donate her umbilical cord blood,

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and the stem cells from her birth

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can be used to save a life in the future.

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And now we have an amazing cord blood bank

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in Canada where people of all ethnicities,

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nationalities can get the support

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and service they need.

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So that's what's driven me with health care.

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The biggest concern I hear from people

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on the doors is folks either born and raised

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in Canada or immigrated to Canada

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for a better life. They followed the rules,

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they worked hard, they paid their taxes,

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and now they're retiring and they don't have

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a family doctor.

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That's not fair. That's not my Canada.

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My Canada is a Canada where people have

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a family doctor and they have universal health care

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where they can get it in a timely manner,

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not having to wait 10 or 12 hours like we see

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right now with the Eby government

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and the NDP.

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So we need to put more money back into

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frontline staff, more doctors,

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more nurses, and make sure that we're taking

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care of people at the patient level.

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We're gonna focus back on the patients

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and the people that deserve the health care

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that they've paid into the system for.

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One of the biggest challenges we have in BC

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right now is with our rural health care

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delivery.

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So we have hospital closures happening all

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around the province.

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So imagine that you are giving birth,

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and you're in northern BC,

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and your hospital is closed,

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and now you have to drive three,

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four hours on a winter road to the next

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hospital. That's unacceptable in my view.

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So what we need to do is we need to find

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ways to incentivize doctors to come here,

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and one of the ways to do that is lowering

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taxes. Right now it's so expensive in BC

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because of the taxes of David Eby

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and the NDP government that

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doctors don't want to move here.

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It costs too much to move here. They'd rather go

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to Calgary or other places. So we want

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to make it so that people want to come

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to British Columbia, they can afford to come

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to British Columbia, and that will allow us

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to recruit the best doctors and make sure

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all communities are served.

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We need to make sure people are taken care

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of. If we don't take care of society, then

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we've failed.