{"id":674407,"date":"2026-05-16T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/674407\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:39:09","slug":"letter-b-c-political-parties-should-work-together-to-fix-dripa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/674407\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: B.C. political parties should work together to fix DRIPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              LETTER: B.C. political parties should work together to fix DRIPA<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 3:00 pm Saturday, May 16, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Editor,<\/p>\n<p>DRIPA needs to be repealed and a new agreement needs to be carefully negotiated. DRIPA was done to quickly with not enough research into the consequences to every government department, and citizens of B.C.<\/p>\n<p>I am curious if the provincial government put forward a bill to repeal DRIPA, would the oppositions vote yes to repeal DRIPA, or are they more interested in bringing down the government than actually repealing DRIPA?<\/p>\n<p> It would be nice if both sides of the government could agree on something for the good of the province.<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Reilly, Surrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: B.C. political parties should work together to fix DRIPA Published 3:00 pm Saturday, May 16, 2026 Editor,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-674407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}