NDP's James puts focus on youth
BC Local News
Nov 28, 2009 
By: Tom Fletcher

VANCOUVER - NDP leader Carole James has promised her party she will topple the B.C. Liberal government with a plan to eliminate child poverty and improve education for the next generation.

Speaking at the party's convention in Vancouver Saturday, James offered few specifics, vowing to consult with the public and "concerned business leaders" before detailing her platform for the next election in 2013. She continued a main theme of the fall legislature session, that B.C. has Canada's highest rate of child poverty and its lowest minimum wage

Asked to detail her plan after her speech, James said she has three years to develop it.

"The specifics that we've already talked about are things like increasing the minimum wage, building affordable housing, and making sure that you provide supports for quality child care," she said. "It's pretty clear that child poverty isn't important to this government. It is to me."….