B.C. Conservative’s Lorne Doerkson sets out urgent priorities to govern

By Wolfgang Depner British Columbia’s premier-designate Lorne Doerkson’s long to-do list includes lowering taxes, while reviewing the provincial finances, working with Alberta and the federal government on the proposed Pacific Link pipeline and repealing Indigenous legislation. Doerkson laid out his priorities at a news conference Sunday, just hours after his party was elected with about two-thirds of the province’s 93 seats in the legislature. He said he has spoken to the lieutenant-governor and named Kim Henderson, a former deputy to the premier to previous Liberal governments, to lead his transition team. “We are going to do this properly, and we are going to do it with obviously some urgency,” he said. “When this government is sworn in, it will be ready on Day 1, and it will hit the ground…

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