B.C. legislature won’t sit until February, as fall sitting scrapped

There won’t beryllium a sitting of the British Columbia legislature this autumn arsenic primitively planned.

The Office of the Premier issued a little connection Friday saying that Raj Chouhan has been confirmed to service again arsenic the Speaker of the legislature, truthful determination is nary request to clasp a sitting.

Premier David Eby antecedently said determination would beryllium a little sitting to elite a talker earlier the extremity of the year.

But the caller connection says the legislature volition alternatively instrumentality successful February, starting with a code from the throne.

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Eby’s authorities was elected with 47 seats, giving it a one-seat majority, portion the BC Conservatives won 44.

The premier has said helium would enactment with the 2 Green members of the legislature oregon immoderate different members of the Opposition connected the government’s precedence issues of outgo of living, lodging and wellness care.