Jaime Stein Interview collection | 2026 BC election

Jaime Stein | Ep. 1: Time to Step Up | 2026 BC Election Interview

https://youtu.be/8mhtCv4ueIQ

(Transcript from the episode's English subtitles — the interview is in English; speakers not labelled. Host: Sarah Yu.)

[0:00] Highlights

The biggest concern I hear from people on the doors is folks either born and raised in Canada or immigrated to Canada for a better life. They followed the rules, they worked hard, they paid their taxes, and now they're retiring and they don't have a family doctor. That's not fair. That's not my Canada.

[0:23] Meet Jaime Stein

Hi, Jaime. Hey, Sarah, good to see you. Can you introduce yourself? Yeah, my name is Jaime Stein. I'm the Conservative candidate for Vancouver-Langara. Why are you running in Vancouver-Langara? Thank you. So for me, I've seen a lot of people talk, but not a lot of people act. And I said, you know what, it's time for me to jump in the ring. And it's time to bring my experience to serve my community in Vancouver-Langara and also the people of British Columbia. So I've done a lot of work with combating hate, combating antisemitism, and I feel that we're at a point now where we need people to step up and help create a better society, and One of the things I hear when I talk to people at the doors is how hard it is right now to live here in Vancouver and in British Columbia. It's gotten really expensive after nine years of the NDP government, and people are having trouble making ends meet, and I want to make sure that we're able to support the people

[1:16] Housing and affordability

in our communities. In your view, what are the main problems with the current provincial approach to housing and affordability? And what would a Conservative government do differently? So we're staring at a $13 billion deficit caused by David Eby and the NDP government. That is going to cripple the next generation. So I worry about my kids, I worry about your kids, I worry about everybody's kids and what they're going to be left with if we don't act now. And so it's on us in the Conservative Party, if we form government, to look at the finances of British Columbia.

[1:49] Raising the basic personal exemption

So one of the first things that we would do is raise the basic personal income tax exemption rate to $32,000. So what does that mean for a family? A family could see up to $2,000 back in their pocket, an individual could see an extra $1,000 back in their pocket, and that will go a long way to helping people deal with the affordability crisis that the NDP has created here in British Columbia. A lot of people, they'll focus on cutting costs,

[2:14] Building a bigger pie

but one area that we can focus on is generating revenue. So how do we help small business owners? How do we help tourism? How do we help the resource sector? Build a bigger pie, because with that we can generate more revenue, which can then help everybody within our society, whether it's with better healthcare, we can find better ways for affordable housing, and we can keep people

[2:36] Priced out of home

in our communities. That's what really breaks my heart, is that a lot of the people I grew up with are no longer able to live in the community that they were born and raised in. I want to make sure my kids and the families in Langara can continue to have their children raised in the community that they grew up in.

[2:53] Health care

What do you see as the biggest failures in the current health care system, particularly around access to family doctors and wait times? So look, my relationship to healthcare goes back almost 20 years. My father died of leukemia when he was 60 years old, and he was waiting for a stem cell transplant. He wasn't able to get one. And so I looked at the system and said, how can I help? How can I help other people not go through

[3:20] Canada's cord blood bank

what my father went through? And I worked with Canadian Blood Services. We raised $12.5 million and built Canada's umbilical cord blood bank. And when my daughter was born at BC Women's Hospital, she was one of the first babies to donate her umbilical cord blood, and the stem cells from her birth can be used to save a life in the future. And now we have an amazing cord blood bank in Canada where people of all ethnicities, nationalities can get the support and service they need. So that's what's driven me with health care.

[3:53] Retiring without a family doctor

The biggest concern I hear from people on the doors is folks either born and raised in Canada or immigrated to Canada for a better life. They followed the rules, they worked hard, they paid their taxes, and now they're retiring and they don't have a family doctor. That's not fair. That's not my Canada. My Canada is a Canada where people have a family doctor and they have universal health care where they can get it in a timely manner, not having to wait 10 or 12 hours like we see right now with the Eby government and the NDP. So we need to put more money back into frontline staff, more doctors, more nurses, and make sure that we're taking care of people at the patient level. We're gonna focus back on the patients and the people that deserve the health care that they've paid into the system for.

[4:41] Why doctors don't come to BC

One of the biggest challenges we have in BC right now is with our rural health care delivery. So we have hospital closures happening all around the province. So imagine that you are giving birth, and you're in northern BC, and your hospital is closed, and now you have to drive three, four hours on a winter road to the next hospital. That's unacceptable in my view. So what we need to do is we need to find ways to incentivize doctors to come here, and one of the ways to do that is lowering taxes. Right now it's so expensive in BC because of the taxes of David Eby and the NDP government that doctors don't want to move here. It costs too much to move here. They'd rather go to Calgary or other places. So we want to make it so that people want to come to British Columbia, they can afford to come to British Columbia, and that will allow us to recruit the best doctors and make sure all communities are served.

[5:31] Taking care of society

We need to make sure people are taken care of. If we don't take care of society, then we've failed.

Jaime Stein 人物专访｜上集：是时候站出来了｜2026 BC 省选

https://youtu.be/8mhtCv4ueIQ

（英文访谈。文字稿据节目中文字幕（英文原话的中文翻译）整理，未区分说话人；主持：余佩珊 Sarah Yu）

[0:00] 精彩预告

我上门拜访时，听到最多的担忧是

有人在加拿大土生土长，

也有人移民来加拿大

追求更好的生活。他们守规矩，

努力工作，按时纳税，

可现在到了退休的年纪，

却连个家庭医生都没有。

这不公平，这不是我心中的加拿大。

[0:23] 温哥华长大

你好，Jaime。

你好 Sarah，很高兴见到你。

能介绍一下你自己吗？

好的，我叫 Jaime Stein，

是温哥华兰加拉选区的保守党候选人。

你为什么选择在温哥华兰加拉参选？

谢谢。对我来说，

我见过太多人只是嘴上说说，

真正行动的却不多。

于是我对自己说，

是时候站出来了。

是时候用我的经验

服务温哥华兰加拉的社区，

也服务 BC 省的民众。

我做过很多工作，

反对仇恨、反对反犹主义，

我觉得现在到了这样一个时刻：

需要有人站出来，

一起建设更好的社会。

我上门和居民交流时，

经常听到大家说，现在

在温哥华、在 BC 省

生活太难了。新民主党执政

九年，生活成本变得非常高，

大家入不敷出，

我希望确保

我们能够支持

[1:16] 住房与生活成本

社区里的每一个人。

在你看来，

省政府目前在住房

和生活负担上的做法，

主要问题在哪里？

保守党政府

会有什么不同的做法？

我们正面临 130 亿元的赤字，

这是尹大卫和新民主党政府造成的。

这会拖垮

下一代。我担心我的孩子，

也担心你的孩子，

担心所有人的孩子：

如果我们现在不行动，

他们将来要背负什么。所以，

如果保守党组成政府，

我们有责任好好审视

BC 省的财政。

[1:49] 个人基本免税额提高到 3.2 万

我们首先要做的一件事，

就是把个人基本免税额

提高到 3.2 万元。

这对一个家庭意味着什么？

一个家庭最多可以多留 2000 元

在自己口袋里，

个人可以多留 1000 元，

这能大大帮助大家

应对

新民主党在 BC 省

造成的生活负担危机。

很多人只盯着削减开支，

[2:14] 不只是削减开支

但我们可以发力的

是增加收入。怎样帮助

小商家？怎样帮助旅游业？

怎样帮助资源产业？

把饼做大，因为

这样才能增加收入，

进而帮到社会上的每一个人，

无论是更好的医疗，

还是找到更好的办法

提供可负担住房，让大家

[2:36] 最让他心痛的

留在自己的社区。

最让我心痛的是，

很多和我一起长大的人，

已经住不起

自己土生土长的社区了。

我希望我的孩子，

还有兰加拉的家庭，

能继续让孩子在

自己长大的社区里成长。

[2:53] 医疗：家庭医生与等候时间

你认为当前医疗体系

最大的失败

在哪里？

尤其是看家庭医生难

和等候时间长的问题？

我和医疗的渊源

要追溯到将近 20 年前。

我父亲 60 岁时死于白血病，

当时他在等

干细胞移植，

却没能等到。

所以我审视这个体系，问自己：

我能做些什么？

怎样让别人不必再经历

[3:20] 筹款 1250 万元

我父亲经历的那些？

我和加拿大血液服务局合作，

筹集了 1250 万元，

建立了加拿大的脐带血库。

我女儿在 BC 妇女医院出生时，

是最早一批

捐献脐带血的婴儿之一，

她出生时留下的干细胞

将来可以用来挽救生命。

现在加拿大有了一个很棒的脐带血库，

各个族裔、

各个国籍的人都能得到

他们需要的支持和服务。

这就是我关注医疗的原因。

[3:53] 守规矩、纳税一辈子

我上门拜访时，听到最多的担忧是

有人在加拿大土生土长，

也有人移民来加拿大

追求更好的生活。他们守规矩，

努力工作，按时纳税，

可现在到了退休的年纪，

却连个家庭医生都没有。

这不公平，这不是我心中的加拿大。

我心中的加拿大，

人人都有家庭医生，享有全民医疗，

而且能及时得到治疗，

不用像现在这样一等十几个小时，

这就是尹大卫政府

和新民主党治下的现状。

所以我们要把更多的钱投回

一线人员：更多医生、

更多护士，确保我们

真正照顾好每一位病人。

我们要把重心放回病人身上，

放回那些交了税、

理应得到医疗服务的人身上。

[4:41] 医生为什么不来 BC

BC 省现在最大的挑战之一

是乡村地区的

医疗服务。

全省各地

都有医院关闭。

想象一下你快要分娩了，

人在 BC 北部，

当地医院却关门了，

你只能在冬天的路上

开三四个小时

去下一家医院。在我看来，这不可接受。

所以我们要想办法

吸引医生来这里，

其中一个办法就是

减税。现在 BC 省生活成本太高，

因为尹大卫

和新民主党政府的税负，

医生们都不愿意搬来，

搬来这里成本太高，他们宁愿去

卡尔加里或者别的地方。所以我们要

让人们愿意

来 BC 省，也负担得起

在 BC 省生活，这样我们才能

招到最好的医生，确保

每个社区都有医疗服务。

[5:31] 照顾好每一个人

我们要确保大家

得到照顾。如果照顾不好这个社会，

那我们就失败了。

Jaime Stein | Ep. 2: The Best Constituency MLA | 2026 BC Election Interview

https://youtu.be/EGsmQpgBVg8

(Transcript from the episode's English subtitles — the interview is in English; speakers not labelled. Host: Sarah Yu.)

[0:00] Highlights

The biggest challenge I see is that we no longer have consequences in our society for bad behaviour. That's not fair. So what happens if there's no consequence when you commit a crime or cause problems? That consequence then falls onto the people that are following the rules and the people that are actually contributing to society.

[0:22] Economy and public finances

What approach would Conservatives take to encourage investment, create jobs, and manage debt while protecting essential services? So nine-plus years of David Eby and the NDP government has left this province an absolute disaster. They've left us with over a $13 billion deficit and nothing to show for it.

[0:43] Respecting taxpayers' money

So as a Conservative government, we're going to respect taxpayers and we're going to respect their money. Firstly, we're going to work on getting more money back in their pockets through raising the basic income tax rate exemption to $32,000. So that will allow people to have more money, which will fuel the economy.

[1:00] Small businesses are hurting

So right now, small businesses are hurting, and we have so many amazing small business owners in Vancouver-Langara and across British Columbia. And we need to make sure that the economy's functioning so that they can put food on their table through that.

[1:13] Unlocking resources

Secondly, we need to unlock our resources. We have so many great resources, whether it's LNG or minerals. We need to find a way to get that to market faster. Right now, there's too much regulation and too much red tape caused by the NDP government. And as a Conservative government, we will work with the business community to remove those barriers and help fuel

[1:35] Public safety and addiction

our economy. What practical problems do you see with the current approach to public safety, mental health and addiction in neighbourhoods across BC? The biggest challenge I see is that we no longer have consequences in our society for bad behaviour. That's not fair. So what happens if there's no consequence when you commit a crime or cause problems? That consequence then falls onto the people that are following the rules and the people that are actually contributing to society. So we need to protect the people that are contributing to society, whether it's the business owner whose space is getting broken into, whether it's the elderly couple that just wants to go for a walk downtown, but it's not safe because there's drug addicts on the street, or it's not safe because somebody's going to break into their car or steal from them. We need to bring back consequences for bad behaviour in British Columbia.

[2:26] The key to Vancouver

Vancouver-Langara is home to diverse communities, How would you ensure that residents from different backgrounds, including those who do not support your party, have their voices heard? Vancouver-Langara is the greatest riding in the entire province because of what you describe. The diversity is what makes it incredible. I like to call Vancouver-Langara the key to Vancouver, because if you look at it, it is the hub of the city. Everything's got to flow through Langara. And for me, it's not about just

[2:55] Representing everyone

my supporters. It's about everybody. It's the most incredible riding because of the diversity. We have a large Chinese community. We have a large Punjabi community, Filipino community, Jewish community, it's such a beautiful mix of people. And my job, if I'm elected as MLA, is to represent every single person in that community, and that means showing up to events, that means listening to communities, that means being in spaces. And I've spent two and a half years doing that, and I plan to continue showing up for the people

[3:24] First-year priority

of Vancouver-Langara. If elected, what would be your most important priority? I think my first priority is to be the best constituency MLA in the province. My goal is to be that MLA that people know they can come talk to, know that they can trust, know that they can interact with. I want people to know that if they have concerns, they can come speak to us and we're going to solve problems. Solving problems is going to be a huge focus for us in the riding level. As a Conservative government, it's getting the economy back on track. We need to focus on affordability and make sure that families and seniors can continue to live in the communities that they're in. And so that's a huge

[4:01] Health care without waits

priority for us. The second priority is health care. We need to make sure that we're taking care of people, whether it's our children having a doctor, or making sure our seniors have doctors, or making sure that there's no wait times in the hospitals anymore. We believe in universal healthcare, but for it to be truly universal, there can't be the waits that we see right now. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.

Jaime Stein 人物专访｜下集：做全省最好的选区议员｜2026 BC 省选

https://youtu.be/EGsmQpgBVg8

（英文访谈。文字稿据节目中文字幕（英文原话的中文翻译）整理，未区分说话人；主持：余佩珊 Sarah Yu）

[0:00] 精彩预告

我看到最大的问题是，

我们的社会对不良行为

已经没有后果了。

这不公平。

如果犯罪、惹事

都不用承担后果，会怎么样？

后果就落到了

守规矩的人身上，

落到那些真正

为社会做贡献的人身上。

[0:22] 经济与财政

保守党

会采取什么办法

鼓励投资、

创造就业、控制债务，

同时保住

基本公共服务？

尹大卫和新民主党执政九年多，

把这个省

搞得一塌糊涂。

留给我们超过 130 亿元

的赤字，却没有任何成果可言。

[0:43] 尊重纳税人的钱

保守党政府

会尊重纳税人，

尊重他们的钱。

首先，我们要让更多的钱

回到大家的口袋里，办法是

把个人所得税基本免税额

提高到 3.2 万元。这样大家

手里的钱多了，

就能带动经济。

[1:00] 小商家日子难过

现在小商家日子很难过，

我们有那么多优秀的小商家，

在温哥华兰加拉，

在全 BC 省。

我们要确保经济

运转起来，让他们

能靠生意养家糊口。

[1:13] 释放资源潜力

第二，我们要释放资源的潜力。

我们有那么多丰富的资源，

无论是液化天然气还是矿产。

我们要想办法

让它们更快进入市场。现在

新民主党政府设置了太多监管、

太多繁文缛节。

保守党政府

会和商界合作，

清除这些障碍，

[1:35] 公共安全、精神健康与成瘾

为经济注入动力。

在你看来，

目前在公共安全、

精神健康和成瘾问题上的做法，

给 BC 各地社区带来了哪些实际问题？

我看到最大的问题是，

我们的社会对不良行为

已经没有后果了。

这不公平。

如果犯罪、惹事

都不用承担后果，会怎么样？

后果就落到了

守规矩的人身上，

落到那些真正

为社会做贡献的人身上。

所以我们要保护

那些为社会做贡献的人，

无论是店铺

被人闯入的老板，

还是只想

去市中心散散步的老夫妇，

可是街上有吸毒的人，

不安全；或者有人

会砸他们的车，

偷他们的东西。

我们必须让 BC 省的不良行为

重新承担后果。

[2:26] 多元的温哥华兰加拉

温哥华兰加拉是一个

多元族裔的社区，

你会如何确保

不同背景的居民，

包括那些不支持

你所在政党的人，

都能发出自己的声音？

温哥华兰加拉是

全省最棒的选区，

正是因为你说的这一点。

多元让它与众不同。

我喜欢把温哥华兰加拉

叫作“温哥华的钥匙”，你看，

它就是整座城市的枢纽。

什么都要经过兰加拉。

对我来说，这不只是

[2:55] 代表每一个人

关乎我的支持者，

而是关乎每一个人。

这是最了不起的选区，

因为它的多元。

这里有庞大的华人社区，

有庞大的旁遮普裔社区，

还有菲律宾裔、犹太裔社区，

各种人群融合在一起，非常美好。

如果我当选省议员，

我的职责就是代表

这个社区的每一个人，

这意味着要出席活动，

倾听各个社区的声音，

走进大家当中。

两年半来我一直在这样做，

今后也会继续为

[3:24] 当选后第一年

温哥华兰加拉的居民到场。

如果当选，

你最重要的优先事项是什么？

我想，我的第一要务

是做全省最好的选区省议员。

我的目标是成为这样一位议员：

大家知道可以找他谈，

可以信任他，

可以和他互动。

我希望大家知道，

有任何问题都可以来找我们，

我们会把问题解决。

解决问题会是我们在选区层面的

工作重点。作为保守党政府，

就是要让经济

重回正轨。我们要关注生活负担，

确保家庭和长者

能继续住在

自己的社区。这是我们

[4:01] 第二优先：医疗

非常重要的优先事项。第二个优先事项

是医疗。我们要确保

照顾好每一个人，

无论是让孩子有医生看，

让长者有医生看，

还是让医院

不再需要漫长等候。我们相信全民

医疗，但要做到真正的

全民医疗，就不能有

现在这样的等候。

谢谢你来。

非常感谢你们的邀请。

很高兴来到这里。