Fully costed BC Conservative platform coming Sunday, Doerkson promises in Delta<\/p>\n
Published 3:40 pm Sunday, October 18, 2026<\/p>\n
B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson promises a fully costed party platform will be available later this afternoon (Sunday, Oct. 18).<\/p>\n
Doerkson was asked about the platform by a reporter at a media event held in Delta to announce the party\u2019s \u201cThriving Kids Plan.\u201d Doerkson was joined by Conservative candidates from around the region including Delta South\u2019s Ian Paton \u2013 whose farm provided the backdrop for the event \u2013 and Delta North\u2019s Monica Mohan. Also present were Surrey candidates Garry Thind (Surrey-Guildford), Mandeep Dhaliwal (Surrey North) and Bryan Tepper (Surrey Panorama), among others from the Lower Mainland.<\/p>\n
Among the planks in the newly announced plan, as announced by Doerkson:<\/p>\n
\u2022 full ban on cellphones in schools \u2013 \u201cno phones in school, full stop\u201d;<\/p>\n
\u2022 expanded school meal programs in high-need communities;<\/p>\n
\u2022 a $500 activity credit \u2013 a refundable B.C. tax credit for sports, music, recreation and art camps;<\/p>\n
\u2022 doubling playground equipment program funding to $10 million a year, with a goal of replacing aging playgrounds at 50 schools each year; <\/p>\n
\u2022 partnering with municipalities to match municipal funding for sports and recreation facilities; <\/p>\n
\u2022 support for families of children with autism, extending autism funding and reviewing changes by the BC NDP to ensure no family loses their funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo many kids start the school day hungry. Too many families are working harder than ever and still can\u2019t afford hockey, swimming, music, or summer camp. Too many schools have playgrounds that are falling apart, and parents spend years running bake sales to replace them. And too many classrooms have become a contest between the teacher and a cellular phone,\u201d Doerkson said. \u201cHere\u2019s the truth: a child who is hungry, tired, restless, or distracted cannot learn. Every parent knows that. Every teacher sees the results.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fully costed BC Conservative platform coming Sunday, Doerkson promises in Delta Published 3:40 pm Sunday, October 18, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[903,49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-938582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938582","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=938582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}