B.C. premier outlines specific demands to PM, including disaster funding and infrastructure support
After publicly complaining that the prime minister wouldn’t take his call, Premier David Eby has finally had it out with Justin Trudeau and presented him with a list of six “concrete terms” to treat British Columbia more fairly.
Eby went on to outline “six specific files where these shared priorities continue to require your urgent attention.” In his letter, Eby asked Trudeau for an “immediate engagement from Canada on the recent denials for Abbotsford, Merritt and Princeton to address this funding gap.” Eby billed it as not only clean energy infrastructure, but also a project of Indigenous reconciliation and future port expansion for the country. He asked Ottawa to cost-match provincial money, plus use other financial mechanisms like Indigenous loan guarantees, to accelerate the initiative.
The phone call between Eby and Trudeau was said to be cordial, despite Eby publicly shaming the prime minister into picking up the phone. The idea of the province writing out a list of its demands was said to be Trudeau’s idea, though it also helps British Columbia by putting on the public record clear requests that it can use to hold Ottawa accountable.
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