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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Climate justice
Recommendation 1: Take bold action to tackle the climate crisis, while ensuring lower income households are not made worse off, and indeed, that social justice and economic security is enhanced.-
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Climate justice
Recommendation 2: Continue with annual increases to the carbon tax while ensuring this taxation incorporates low income transfers that sufficiently offset any negative impacts to low income households or individuals (such as an expansion of the low-income carbon tax credit).-
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Climate justice
Recommendation 3: Develop localized renewable energy projects (wind, solar, tidal), working with communities and Indigenous Nations as partners, to help communities avoid energy poverty and reduce emissions.-
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Climate justice
Recommendation 4: Provide resources and subsidies to low-income households to improve energy efficiency, install electric heat pumps, household-level solar and other renewable energy sources.-
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Climate justice
Recommendation 5: Implement UN Sustainable Development Goal 1.5: ‘By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social, and environmental shocks and disasters’ in B.C.-
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Climate justice
Recommendation 6: Focus and prioritize the creation of green, unionized jobs in multiple sectors including health, education, child care, transit, and the building industry.-
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Climate justice
Recommendation 8: Develop and implement policy to ensure the security and resilience of workers, their families, and communities as we transition from fossil fuel industries to a green economy.-
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Equity
Recommendation 17: Establish stand-alone pay equity and pay transparency legislation.-
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Equity
Recommendation 21: The BC Human Rights Commission to prioritize stigma-auditing areas of law and policy that most directly impact highly stigmatized populations including sex workers in areas such as:- Public space governance,
- Income assistance and disability policy,
- Housing policy and residential tenancy law,
- Child welfare law and policy,
- Policing law and policy,
- Health policy related to mental health and substance use,
- Privacy law as it relates to people who live in public spaces and people who are criminalized as a result of poverty and substance use.
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- Ableism ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Mental health and detention ,
- Other ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Privacy ,
- Public services ,
- Sexism ,
- Tenancy rights ,
- Workers’ rights
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Universal basic services
Mental health
Recommendation 32: Integrate no-to-low cost counselling and other evidence-based mental health therapies into primary care networks and community health centres to support people in accessing mental health care at the first sign of illness.-
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