🇨🇦 B.C. wants nurses for cheap while the system collapses

B.C. is allegedly desperate for nurses, yet the NDP government goes into mediation with the same pay mandate and no real movement, as reported. That is the regime in one sentence: endless virtue lectures about public health, then Treasury Board math when actual Canadian workers ask to be paid properly. They can find billions for bureaucracy, consultants, and every fashionable ideological side quest, but suddenly the cupboard is bare when bedside care is on the line.

This is late-stage Trudeau-era governance at the provincial level: suppress wages, import labour, dilute bargaining power, then act shocked when morale rots and hospitals bleed staff. Governments created a housing crisis, inflated the cost of living, and packed cities beyond capacity, but expect nurses to absorb it all with compassion and a pizza party. B.C. is not suffering from a mystery shortage. It is suffering from political contempt for the people who still keep the country functioning.

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