The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition’s “Blueprint for Justice” released in 2020 describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified existing inequities and revealed the depth and breadth of the durable policy and investments needed to truly reduce poverty and inequality in B.C. It describes the concrete actions needed to ensure nobody is left behind during the pandemic and beyond it, centering its recommendations on four principles: economic security, universal basic services, equity and climate justice. The full blueprint can be found here.
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Universal basic services
Child care
Recommendation 45: Consider the disproportionate impact of precarious labour within the child care sector on women and implement a provincial wage grid for early child educators to raise wages, and address recruitment and retention.-
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Universal basic services
Child care
Recommendation 46: Transfer the Child Care Branch from the Ministry of Children and Family Development to the Ministry of Education.-
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Universal basic services
Child care
Recommendation 47: Increase the universal Fee Reduction Initiative with a cap on fees and expand the number of $10-a-day prototype sites.-
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Child care
Recommendation 48: Establish a child care capital budget and further work with communities to plan, fund, and build new publicly owned child care facilities. This should begin with the purchase of bulk modular child care buildings to be located on public land across the province.-
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Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 58: Lower the federal and provincial voting age in Canada from 18 to 16.-
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Universal basic services
Transportation
Recommendation 65: Free-fare public transit.- Step: Implement free transit for all youth 0-18 in every transit system in B.C.
- Step: Implement a sliding scale fare system based on income in every transit system in B.C.
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Universal basic services
Transportation
Recommendation 66: Cease ticketing minors for fare evasion in all transit systems in BC.-
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Universal basic services
Transportation
Recommendation 68: Apply an equity lens to all provincial, regional, and municipal transportation planning to ensure all forms of transportation infrastructure are affordable, accessible, and safe for at-risk and low-income community members.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 71: Prioritize poverty reduction strategies that target those who have a higher risk of living in poverty due to intersectional disadvantage. This includes women, single senior women, single parents, Indigenous and racialized communities, immigrants and refugees, those engaged in survival sex work and other work in grey economies, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, those living with disabilities (taking into consideration the diverse needs of those with both short and long-term disability needs), those with mental health challenges, and those with substance-use disorders.-
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