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The Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services is one of ten permanent parliamentary committees of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Each year, the committee holds province-wide consultations to seek the views of British Columbians on priorities for the next provincial budget and presents a final report with recommendations to the Legislative Assembly. The following submission was made by Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West, Chair of the TransLink Mayors’ Council, in May 2023.

A delegation of mayors from the Metro Vancouver region will be in Ottawa next week, calling on the federal government to expedite funding for public transit, in response to increasing pressures on transit systems in Canada’s big cities.

February 14, 2023 (Vancouver, B.C.) – The TransLink Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation has made a formal request to the Federal Government to renew its partnership with the region and the Province, in order to ensure Metro Vancouver’s transit system can sustain and expand services in the face of increasing ridership amid ongoing post-pandemic financial…

RECOMMENDATIONS   As the Government of Canada prepares its 2023-24 Budget, Metro Vancouver’s TransLink Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation asks that the Government: 1. Provide $250 million in Emergency Transit Relief Funding to TransLink, to be matched by the Government of B.C., to protect existing transit service levels in 2023-25 and enable TransLink to begin…

Deputy Prime Minister Freeland and Minister LeBlanc, I am writing to share our attached submission to the 2022/23 Pre-Budget Consultation and to provide an important update on our transit system in Metro Vancouver.  Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic almost two years ago, urban transit systems across Canada have faced unprecedented challenges in maintaining…