Conservative Leader Dan Brooks sounded off about the BC Liberals’ decision to re-negotiate a new Fair Share deal.
The Fair Share memorandum is a regional property tax sharing agreement with Northeast BC municipalities, the current agreement is set to expire in 2020 and it’s heavily tied to local industrial growth.
Brooks believes the Liberals have lost touch with Northern and Rural BC, and says for decades these Northern communities have been a major economic engine for BC:
“If we want to attract the healthcare professionals, the workers, the people and the jobs and the industry into those northern regions we need to offer them a better quality of life than they can get anywhere else in British Columbia. and that isnt possible if we are starving our Northern communities of resources they need to provide that quality of life”
He believes re-negotiating now – 5 years before expiration – would be punitive to these communities, and instead he believes similar agreements should be put in place in other rural regions to help them achieve similar success.
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