B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson is asking the province to consider a “region-by-region” approach to reopening the province to speed up recovery in areas with few cases of COVID-19.
In a letter sent to Premier John Horgan, Wilkinson says easing restrictions on Vancouver Island and in the Okanagan, Kootenays and northern B.C.
would help the tourism sector. “The B.C. Liberal Caucus has been reaching out directly to British Columbians throughout this pandemic,” Wilkinson writes. “It is clear, based on their feedback, that despite having lower COVID-19 case counts, certain regions are being hit disproportionately harder by the economic impacts that have resulted from sector-wide closures.” Just one case of the illness has been confirmed in