B.C.’s new poverty reduction minister and all of cabinet asked to ‘work fast’ following shuffle
Sheila Malcolmson, who had been the minister of mental health and addictions for the past two years, is now minister of social development and poverty reduction.
She said she met with Premier David Eby last month to talk about community priorities, passion projects and other files she’d like to focus on. Then, at the beginning of this week, she received a phone call from the premier asking her to take on a new role in cabinet. “There isn’t a jurisdiction that has used more tools that are available to provinces to try to save lives during the toxic drug crisis,” Malcolmson said. “But I can’t say that the work is done while we continue to lose so many lives … So it’s very much mixed feelings that way. The imperative to build that system of care is even stronger than before.”
She’s got “binders upon binders” of reading to do and had her first stakeholders’ meeting Friday, Dec. 9, with an employers’ group committed to hiring people with disabilities. She looks forward to working on food security and exploring ways community members can work together for better outcomes on that front. And she’s been asked to figure out further ways to reduce costs for British Columbians and get more money into their wallets.
“I was delighted to see who walked across the stage yesterday and I really commend the premier for his choices,” Malcolmson said.
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