As Teresa Wat joins her longtime BC Liberal colleague John Rustad in his BC Conservative Party, it’s never been more clear that the BC Conservative record is the BC Liberal record.

Whatever name John Rustad and Teresa Wat go by today, they’re the same people who:

• Cut healthcare
• Hiked costs like MSP fees, car insurance, and bridge tolls
• Let speculators run our housing market and let housing costs soar

John Rustad’s agenda today is more of the same - planning even deeper cuts and higher costs than before:

• He wants to slash $4.1 billion/year from healthcare - a cut that will mean firing doctors and nurses, longer wait times for care, and risking new projects like the Richmond Hospital Tower.
• He says he’ll cancel David Eby’s changes to ICBC - making people pay $500 more for car insurance.
• He opposes every step David Eby has taken to tackle the housing crisis. He’ll end all of BC’s measures to get more housing built – that would make a lot of money for speculators but drive up costs for everyone else.

Linda Li: “Teresa Wat is going to have to explain to people in Richmond why she’s joining a party that is promising a $4.1 billion cut to healthcare. We’re taking action to make healthcare more available - building a new hospital tower and opening a new medical school to train more doctors. Rustad’s plan puts all that at risk of being cut. We can’t afford that.”

Ravi Parmar: “It's obvious now that John Rustad's record is the BC Liberal record. Whatever they call themselves, these are the people who cut healthcare and let speculators drive housing into a crisis. They did it before, they'll do it again. People can’t risk that.”