Communist Party of BC platform 2026
The Communist Party of BC has 136 commitments, all from its platform. Its site shows The Communist Party of BC’s site shows “Our Platform”.
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- Leader
- Robert Crooks
- Candidates
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- Ballot name
- Communist Party of BC
- Communist Party of BC 2024 platform
- No 2024 platform found on cpcbc.ca
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Commitments by issue
Housing
12 commitmentsExpand production of value-added wood products and other building materials for public housing construction
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
End housing speculation
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Immediately establish vacancy controls which tie rents to the unit
Immediately establish vacancy controls which tie rents to the unit.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Legislate to limit rents to 20% of household income
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Build 100,000 units of new renovated social and low-income public housing
Build 100,000 units of new renovated social and low-income public housing.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Support expansion of modular housing
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Prohibit renovictions, demovictions and economic/no-fault evictions
Prevent eviction or foreclosure because of unemployment, strikes or lockouts
Stop encampment clearing until permanent housing is available
Expropriate units that sit empty for more than two years for use as social housing
Expropriate units that sit empty for more than two years for use as social housing.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Provide safe spaces and housing to people escaping misogyny and domestic violence
Provide safe and secure housing for all
Health care
15 commitmentsDemand that federal and provincial governments fully provide pharmacare, optical and dental care
Stop the “erosion” of public healthcare through P3 (private-public partnership) private contracting
Stop the erosion of public healthcare through P3 private contracting.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Prioritize the expansion of hospital beds
Prioritize the reduction of surgery wait times
Prioritize the training of family physicians and nursing staff
Improve conditions in long-term care homes
Give paramedics regular pay, not “standby pay”
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
End any moves to expand for-profit virtual care and long-term care
End any moves to subcontract healthcare services
“Properly” fund hospitals to end emergency room closures
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Ensure every family has access to a family physician
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Give incentives for healthcare students from northern and isolated areas to practice in their home communities
Provide a streamlined avenue for low-income healthcare students to study medicine in Canada or abroad
Protect and expand access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans people
Protect and expand access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans people.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Expand timely access to mental health services and long term recovery support programs
Cost of living
3 commitmentsRaise the BC minimum wage to $30, fully adjusted to annual inflation rates
Raise BC minimum wage to $30, fully adjusted to annual inflation rates.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Raise social assistance and disability rates by 100%
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Implement a Guaranteed Annual Livable Income
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Public safety
5 commitmentsReduce police spending
Remove the provincial authority to order municipalities to increase policing budgets
Place the police under public oversight and democratic control
Place the police under public oversight and democratic control.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Disband the BC government’s RCMP “Critical Response Unit” (“Community-Industry Response Group”)
End injunctions and charges against environmentalists
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Drugs and addiction
9 commitmentsDemand that federal and provincial governments fully provide mental health and addiction rehabilitation
End the “war on drugs”
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Act on Provincial Health Officer and BC Coroners Service recommendations to decriminalize illicit drugs
Act on Provincial Health Officer and BC Coroners Service recommendations to expand the Safer Supply program
Repeal the legislation criminalizing drug use in public spaces
Repeal the NDP’s fear-mongering legislation criminalizing drug use in public spaces.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Use evidence-based harm reduction approaches
Create a permanent, safe, legal and regulated supply of drugs
End involuntary care
End involuntary care and provide treatment immediately upon request.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Provide treatment immediately upon request
End involuntary care and provide treatment immediately upon request.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Jobs and the economy
30 commitmentsGuarantee security for workers affected by layoffs, including 100% recall rights and wage protection
Protect and expand union rights to picket during labour disputes
Protect and expand union rights to picket during labour disputes.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Offer full labour standards protection for domestic, agricultural and migrant workers
Offer full labour standards protection for domestic, agricultural and migrant workers.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Make BC a liveable income employer
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Expand sectoral bargaining to all industries
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Allow the right to strike around political demands
Allow the right to strike around political demands and allow sympathy strikes.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Allow sympathy strikes
Allow the right to strike around political demands and allow sympathy strikes.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Expand union jobs through public investment in social services and infrastructure
Expand union jobs through public investment in social services and infrastructure.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Reduce the work week to 32 hours with no reduction in pay
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Strengthen card-check certification
Strengthen anti-scab legislation
Impose serious penalties for “union-busting”
End P3 (private-public partnership) public infrastructure projects
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
End provincial contracting out and privatization of public services
Bring contracted work back in-house
Guarantee fair wages, pensions and collective bargaining rights in public work
Expand public ownership over natural resources
Housing, healthcare, education and infrastructure should be kept free of the private market and profit motive
Keep BC resources and jobs in BC
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
End raw-log exports
End raw-log exports and expand public, value-added forestry and manufacturing.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Expand public, value-added forestry and manufacturing
End raw-log exports and expand public, value-added forestry and manufacturing.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Protect mills and resource communities from corporate closures
Protect mills and resource communities from corporate closures.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Use public investment and ownership to create good union jobs
Expand BC shipbuilding and manufacturing for ferries, transit equipment and renewable-energy infrastructure
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Use public procurement to support domestic production
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Introduce strong plant-closure legislation protecting workers and communities from closure or layoff threats
Bring natural resources and strategic industries under democratic public control
Bring natural resources and strategic industries under democratic public control.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Allow no resource extraction without fair and equal negotiations between workers and Indigenous peoples
End removals from the Agricultural Land Reserve
End removals from the Agricultural Land Reserve, encourage food production in urban areas.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Encourage food production in urban areas
End removals from the Agricultural Land Reserve, encourage food production in urban areas.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Taxes
7 commitmentsShift the tax burden off working people
Shift the tax burden off working people and make corporations pay their fair share.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Abolish income tax on earnings under $50,000
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Roll back the 2001 tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations
Fund education, housing, transit and social services through progressive provincial taxation
Fund education, housing, transit and social services through guaranteed transfers
Make the industry pay higher levies
Environment and energy
10 commitmentsMake BC a leader for climate justice
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Cut hydrocarbon emissions now
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Prioritize renewable energy and conservation
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Cancel “taxpayer subsidies” to the industry
Implement a just transition: retrain fossil fuel sector workers for other jobs at union wages
End the “fire sale” of the province’s resources to private interests
Make “polluting corporations” pay for reversing “the environmental damage they’ve caused”
Make polluting corporations pay for reversing the environmental damage they’ve caused.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Begin a “serious” transition to renewable energy
Protect old-growth forests
Wildfires
No commitment published
Education and child care
19 commitmentsIndigenize the BC education curriculum
Remove police from schools
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Increase public education spending by $1000 per student to reach the Canadian average
Increase public education spending by $1000 per student to reach the Canadian average.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
End funding for private and religious schools
End funding and provincial tax breaks for private and religious schools.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
End provincial tax breaks for private and religious schools
End funding and provincial tax breaks for private and religious schools.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Provide funding and equipment to help protect all students, staff and teachers in infectious disease outbreaks
Protect and fully implement policies in all school districts and private and religious schools
End “censorship” in school libraries
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Equalize funding for education both on and off reserve
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Protect elected school boards from “provincial interference”
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Hire more teachers, education assistants and support staff
“Properly” fund special education, school maintenance, renovations and public post-secondary education
Make a long-term commitment to a public universal, affordable, high quality child care system
Implement an Early Childhood Educator Wage Grid paying at least $35 to $45 an hour
Implement an Early Childhood Educator (ECE) Wage Grid paying at least $35 – $45/hr.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Expand school-age spaces and facilities in elementary schools with public, non-profit and Indigenous groups
Stabilize and expand existing $10-a-Day programs with long-term budgets based on an equitable funding formula
Ensure childcare is accessible to shiftworkers
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Increase provincial funding so all school districts can offer all K-12 students hot breakfast and lunch
Artificial intelligence
No commitment published
Transportation
6 commitmentsMake public transit free for all
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Create an accessible province-wide bus transit system
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Immediately create and enforce transit-only lanes in major cities
Place transit under public ownership and democratic control
Place transit under public ownership and democratic control.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Amend the BC Coastal Ferries Act to promote the construction of ferries in the province
Amend the BC Coastal Ferries Act to promote the construction of ferries in the province.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Indigenous relations
6 commitmentsSupport the “Land Back” demand
Ensure Indigenous inherent title to all traditional, “stolen” and unceded territories
Ban resource extraction and infrastructure projects on Indigenous lands without full consultation and approval
Stop the “attacks” on Bill 41, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
Stop the attacks on Bill 41, the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.”
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Support calls for classifying Residential School denialism as hate speech
Support calls for classifying Residential School denialism as hate speech.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Respect Indigenous title and consent
Government and budgets
3 commitmentsReplace “first past the post” with mixed member proportional representation
Set MLA salaries at the average wage of a BC worker
Implement a ward system to elect city councils in major cities
Implement a ward system to elect city councils in major cities.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Immigration
No commitment published
Other commitments
11 commitmentsDemand major cuts in federal military spending
Demand major cuts in federal military spending and an end to Canada’s NATO membership.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Demand an end to Canada’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Demand major cuts in federal military spending and an end to Canada’s NATO membership.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
Transfer military funds to renewable energy, housing, health care and schools
Transfer military funds to renewable energy, housing, health care, and schools.
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
The military should serve basic sovereignty defence and disaster relief, not occupation and “imperialist war”
Restore funding to women’s centres and programs
Take swift legal and political action against those who threaten the 2SLGBTQ+ community
Protect trans youth from discrimination and abuse
Platform, cpcbc.ca: Our Platform, cpcbc.ca/our-platform, October 3.
End the criminalization of sex workers
Stop any criminalization of solidarity with “the Palestinian freedom struggle”
Support the international Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions campaign
Support cultural, economic and healthcare exchanges with Cuba