BC NDP promises to double funding for libraries to $28 mil per year

Three BC NDP candidates announced outside the Courtenay branch of the Vancouver Island Library on Oct. 7 that a re-elected BC NDP government would permanently double provincial funding for B.C. public libraries.
That would take funding for public libraries from $14 million to $28 million per year.
The three candidates were Courtenay-Comox’s Will Cole-Hamilton, North Island’s Sara Lopez, and Vancouver-Little Mountain’s Christine Boyle. The trio were also joined by library truste