Lorne Doerkson's government made 283 promises, each listed with its platform page

The Conservative Party of BC platform holds 283 separate promises. The party's 71-page document, Lorne Doerkson's Plan for a Stronger BC, is the plan its new government was elected on, and every promise in it is now on the BC promise tracker, each linked to its page.

Lorne Doerkson, the party's interim leader, is called premier-designate by BNN Bloomberg's live coverage. In Elections BC's count as of 5:04 p.m. Pacific on October 25, Conservative candidates lead in 63 of 93 districts. A majority needs 47. The final count starts November 6.

The promises by topic

A promise here is any act the platform says a Conservative government will take. The same act promised on two pages is counted once.

Taxes and the budget

The largest promise by cost is an income tax cut. Pages 5 and 59 promise to raise the provincial basic personal amount from $13,216 to $32,000 from the 2027 tax year, so each person who owes at least $1,000 in provincial income tax pays $1,000 less. The platform's table on page 66 costs it at $2.9 billion a year from 2027/28.

The platform also promises an Independent Fiscal Review Panel to report on the province's finances before the first Conservative budget (pages 9, 55 and 59), a deficit that falls every year after that budget (page 59), a hiring freeze for administrative and management jobs outside the front line (page 66), and a cut of 20 per cent in spending on outside consultants (page 67).

Energy and resources

Energy and resources is the largest topic. The platform promises to double natural gas production by 2032 and triple it by 2035 (pages 13 and 15), and says this will bring the province at least $6 billion a year. It promises to repeal CleanBC (pages 14 and 56) and to keep a carbon price on large industrial emitters (page 56).

Health care

Among its 36 promises on health care and public services, the platform promises a $50-million Rural Health Emergency Fund to keep rural emergency rooms and maternity wards open (pages 32 and 61), publicly funded surgery with another provider when wait benchmarks are passed, and a $100 a month increase to disability assistance (pages 33 and 35).

Housing

The platform holds 9 promises on housing. Page 6 promises to approve new homes in months instead of years, to let local governments and residents decide where density goes, held to their own Official Community Plans, and to overhaul the step code, the energy rules in the building code. Page 5 promises to remove construction charges it calls unnecessary.

Childcare

Page 7 promises to let independent providers offer new $10-a-day spaces, to give those spaces first to the children with the highest need, and to create 24-hour child care for shift workers and first responders.

Schools

The 25 promises on schools include bringing back letter grades for grades 4 to 9 and supervised provincial exams (page 44), shop classes (pages 44 and 45) and further limits on phone use in schools (page 45). Pages 44 and 45 also promise to repeal SOGI 123, the teaching resources on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Public safety

Page 39 promises 1,000 new law enforcement workers, listed as 250 police recruits, 500 RCMP officers, 30 sheriffs and 150 civilian staff over five years, with prosecutors and judges counted in separate promises. Pages 38 and 40 promise to end the safe supply approach and move that money to prevention, treatment and recovery.

Transportation, reconciliation and elections

The platform promises a 10-lane George Massey Bridge in place of the tunnel, built within the $8.5 billion now set aside for the crossing (pages 11, 57 and 58). Page 46 lists the repeal of DRIPA, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. Page 44 promises a Respect Local Democracy Act that would bar a provincial election within 60 days of municipal elections.

How each promise is tracked

Every promise starts as No action yet. Its status changes only when a dated record backs it: a vote in the legislature, a law, a budget, an order in council or an official document. A statement by the premier or a minister can mark a promise in progress or dropped, and never done. Every record is listed on the tracker with its source, and each MLA's own campaign promises are on their page.