 It's great to be back in Surrey, on the territory of the Coast Salish people, the semi-Amukkaitsi-Kuppetlum-Kwanlin-Kikait and Tawasa nations, it feels like yesterday, but it was 100 days ago that I was sworn in as your premier at the Musqueam Community Centre. I'll never forget that day. It was the first ever swearing in hosted by a First Nation in our province and it was a reminder to me and I suspect a reminder to all of us about the huge responsibility we have to meaningful reconciliation with Indigenous people in our province. And it was a really remarkable symbol of the shared commitment that we have to moving forward together as true partners. I have to say, being premier has meant some changes for me and the family. For example, after meeting the RCMP detail and getting to know them, my daughter Ivan now wants to be a ballet police officer. We don't know exactly what that means but we're sure she'll do a good job of it. And Ezra delights in seeing the police take his father away every morning. In the last 100 days I've been to every corner of the province and I've been in Prince George, downtown Vancouver, we've been to Chilliwack all over Vancouver Island. And one of the really nice things about this job is being welcomed in to people's businesses and to their communities. And part of that is hearing about the challenges that people are facing in our province. Global inflation, driving up the cost of essentials like food. The long lasting impacts of the pandemic on our health care system. The rapidly growing populations impact on finding things like a family doctor. And the threat of climate change and the impact that it's had on communities across this province from floods to wildfires. But I also hear something else when I'm in these communities from British Columbians and that is hope. British Columbians are optimistic about our province, about our future. I heard it in the voices of Jenny and Monique, they're two internationally educated nurses that I met at Langara College. We were doing an announcement about fast tracking nurses with international experience into our health care system. And they are excited about that and they're excited about the work they're doing here in British Columbia caring for British Columbians. I met a mom named Reut who has three kids and she was at our childcare announcement where we're saving her now $1,000 a month. But also because those childcare spaces exist, she's able to go back to work and help build her community. When I was in Crofton, I saw that hope on the faces of 100 people who work in the pulp mill there. As we made an announcement about reopening a shuttered production line in that pulp mill to produce single use utensils out of paper instead of out of plastic and petroleum products creating jobs in a sustainable way in that community. And I saw it on the faces of students and administrators here at SFU's campus as we announced the first new medical school in western Canada in 50 years. This is a medical school that is going to be focused in training doctors and nurses and health professionals on community care, delivering care in our communities. Everywhere I go, people pull me aside to tell me what they're working on, how they're helping build a stronger future for themselves, for their families, for their communities. And in a time of global economic uncertainty, it's critical that our strong economy continues to attract people from across Canada and around the world. And we are seeing remarkable success. Vancouver's tech sector is growing at the highest rate in all of North America. I heard that, Brenda Bailey. Of course. Mining. Mining is booming in British Columbia. We set a record for mineral exploration last year. Our life sciences and agri-tech sectors are booming as well. And in 2021, BC saw more growth in new businesses started than in any other big province across the country. As a leader in climate action and a clean energy powerhouse, we are uniquely positioned to thrive in the low-carbon clean economy of the future. And I'm really excited about where we're going and so are British Columbians. If the last few years through the pandemic have taught us one thing, it's that going it alone just doesn't work. We've shown over and over again there's nothing we can't overcome when we work together. That's employers and workers, industry in partnership with First Nations, all levels of government working together for British Columbians. We are stronger together. There are those voices out there that say that we should respond to the global uncertainty we're seeing by pulling back. That now is the time that we should be reducing services or by making people pay out of pocket for things like healthcare. But that would make many of our most serious problems worse. And it would pass down costs at a time when people just can't afford it. We couldn't afford that go it alone short term perspective before and we sure can't afford it now. It's that kind of thinking cut services today for someone else to pay for down the road in the future. It didn't work before and it's sure not going to work for us today. Just as we're starting to find our feet after the pandemic. To seize on the remarkable potential that our province has in front of us, we have to take action today to deal with our biggest challenges. And that's what the 100 day plan has been all about. I promise to you that I would and our team would hit the ground running to bring people together to solve the big problems and the challenges that we face in this province. In ways that people can really see, that they can really feel in their communities. And to also take on any of the powerful interests that want to hold us back and prevent us from making necessary changes. And that's exactly what we've done. We started by putting together a cabinet that reflects the diverse voices of our province. One that mixes experience with new voices around the table. Including one of those new voices, Suri's own Rachna Singh. Absolutely. She is the first South Asian woman to become Minister of Education in our province's history. And you'll all know my friend Nikki Sharma, who became the first woman of colour ever to serve as our province's top lawyer. I'm just so proud of this team and the work we've been doing together. We've taken action on a whole array of priorities of British Columbians. For example, we've taken bold action to tackle the housing crisis. We set up a new half a billion dollar fund, 500 million dollars to protect renters from evictions and rent hikes imposed by big international corporations that are buying up those low cost rental buildings in our communities. We introduced new laws to increase housing supply to match the rapid population growth that we're seeing across the province. And we put an end to rental restrictions that left condos vacant while people were searching Craigslist for a place to rent. All of this work is being led by our dedicated housing minister Ravi Calon. And because of that work we're seeing really encouraging signs. Rental housing, absolutely. Rental housing construction in British Columbia is at its highest level in 10 years. Just the other day I ran into a young woman in my community. She had just moved in with her boyfriend and she had to keep her condo vacant because she wasn't allowed to rent it out. But now because of our changes she told me she was able to rent out her place so somebody's moved in, she's putting money in her own pocket, but more importantly she's created a place for someone else to live. I mean for at least as long as she wants to live with her boyfriend. But it's this kind of thing where people see real change in their community where there's a new home created that we need to keep doing. We're also taking action to strengthen our health care system, our public health care system. So care will be there when you need it and where you need it. Now I told you about the new medical school but we're also building new hospitals including a new hospital right here in Surrey. And we signed a new agreement with the doctors of BC that ensures that more family doctors will be attracted to and retained to our province to deliver care to British Columbians. And we're getting more internationally trained nurses and doctors off of the sidelines where they've been waiting to get their credentials recognized and into our health care system through innovative new models to make sure that people are in our health care system to provide care. Now just to give you an idea about the scale of this, 2,000 nurses caught in approvals processes at the regulator that are now being fast tracked through ensuring high standards but also ensuring that they're available to support workers in our hospitals across the province. It was yesterday, just yesterday, that we launched a 10-year cancer plan with immediate steps to better detect, prevent and treat cancer across the entire province. Our health care system will be stronger and will ensure that it meets the care needs of all British Columbians but it's not just health care. We've also taken action to make our communities safer and stronger. Now, it was just a couple of weeks ago, we won a court judgment to seize the Hell's Angels Club houses in Nanaimo, in East Vancouver and in Kelowna. We're cracking down on organized crime. We introduced new measures to keep violent and repeat offenders off of our streets. We funded 250 more RCMP officers to keep people safe, especially in rural BC, but also to support specialized teams fighting, among other things, child exploitation. But also, we recognize a lot of what's driving concern about public safety in many communities, which is concern about people struggling with mental health and addiction in our streets. That's why we created more peer-assisted care teams, so that people in crisis on our streets are met early on by health care workers and people who understand what they're going through, freeing up police to focus on actual crime. And we're going to be introducing new laws this session to crack down on money laundering as well as corrupt officials who think they can hide their money in our real estate. In the shadow of the global storm clouds we see around the global economy, we've taken action here at home to build a stronger, cleaner economy that works for everyone, not just those already at the top. We've created the new BC Manufacturing Fund. It's $180 million to help, among other things, mills to retrofit from using old growth logs to using second or third growth logs instead, and also to manufacture higher value wood products so we get more jobs per tree out of our public resources in British Columbia. Now this fund will support forestry companies that are looking for new equipment, for example, to make mass timber products, or like in Crofton, setting up those plastic alternative production lines at lines that would have otherwise been closed. But this fund is going to help create secure, sustainable jobs for British Columbians all across the province. We're also recognizing and removing unnecessary barriers to our province's growth. We have to keep our standards high, but we also have to speed up our permitting approval processes for essential things like mines that are going to produce the materials to assist with the transition to a low-carbon economy, and so much more. By putting people first, our province has built the strongest pandemic recovery in Canada. And now, because of that work, we have a surplus and we're putting it to work for people. We're building now. We're building now so that we're stronger today and into the future. For example, we announced a new billion-dollar fund to support communities that are facing unprecedented growth to ensure a high quality of life for everybody. So that fund will support things like roads, water treatment, but also things that make community fun, like swimming pools, community centres. Areas. Making life both more fun and sustainable in communities across the province. We've also, though, supported communities to respond to the impacts of climate change that we've seen. Now, British Columbians, we really have seen a disproportionate impact from climate change here. We've seen smoky summers. We've seen record wildfire seasons that chewed through our forests. We've seen the pine beetle explode. We've seen floods during atmospheric rivers. We saw the heat dome. These climate disasters are becoming more frequent and they are disproportionately impacting our province. We need to be focused on the fact that the world is rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels. For our kids and the future of our economy, we are moving to a clean energy future. And this is good news for British Columbia, because we're not only going to be part of the clean energy future, but we have huge advantages that put us in a leadership role. We have innovative technologies like hydrogen that are based here in British Columbia. We have clean electricity that we can use to electrify our economy. And we'll be working closely with fossil fuel producers to ensure that LNG plants meet our climate targets. We're going to keep building the strongest economy in British Columbia, and BC will be a leader in the clean energy future of the world. I think that one's worth a round of applause. Over the last 100 days, we've shown yet again that we are a place where you don't have to compromise the economy in order to protect the environment. In addition to accelerating our work to protect old growth forests, we permanently protected 58,000 hectares of BC's rarest forest ecosystems in the... I always struggle with this one. In Kamalplu Valley, just outside of Revelstoke, some of our rarest and most remarkable forest ecosystems protected by community, first nations, but also in partnership with industry. We've also recognized that the economy is people, and part of our work needs to be to recognize that people need support with the rising costs that they're seeing as a result of global inflation. In fact, on my very first day as Premier, the first action I took was to put money back in your pocket with a new cost of living credit. Then we froze ICBC rates for two years, and we cut childcare fees by hundreds of dollars a month. This builds on the other measures that we've taken since forming government. You'll remember that we are the government that eliminated MSP in the largest middle-class tax cut in a generation in British Columbia. We're the government that ended bridge tolls for people who needed to get to work and get home at the end of the day. And we're the government that cut ICBC rates by an average of $490 a year for drivers. But even with all of these initiatives, we know that families are still struggling, especially as the cost of food continues to rise. That's why today I'm very pleased to announce that more help is on the way through another round of the BC affordability tax credit. This credit will provide as much as an additional $164 per adult and $41 per child, up to $410 for a family with two kids. Now, we know this won't cover all the bills, but it will take some of the pressure off for families who need it most right now. At the centre of everything that we're doing as government is partnership with Indigenous peoples. The people who have always been in British Columbia since time immemorial. A few weeks ago, I was honoured to be part of an historic event in British Columbia that illustrates our approach to these issues. Our government signed an agreement with the Blueberry River First Nations in the northeast of British Columbia. One that recognises their right to exercise meaningfully their treaty rights, but also provides stability and predictability for industry in the northeast. Full partnership? Absolutely. It was a wonderful day. It's clear that full partnership and respect are the only ways forward for British Columbia, not endless court battles, not short-term transactional relationships. The end of the first 100 days is of course not an end at all, it's just the beginning. Over the next 18 months, my team and I will work hard to make life better for you and for your families, in ways that you will be able to see and feel in your lives and in your communities. Our next big step will be introducing a budget next week, and all budgets are really about choices. For too long in this province, government chose to benefit those already at the top through tax cuts while making everybody else pay for it. Higher healthcare premiums, skyrocketing car insurance, reduced services, tolls, of course. Our priorities are different. Our priorities are your priorities, and the budget will reflect them. We're building today to ensure a stronger and more secure tomorrow. We'll be building affordable housing, expanding access to healthcare, including mental health care and addiction treatment. We'll help people pursue their dreams and help businesses find the talent that they need to grow with new investments and skills training. And we're going to continue to find ways to help people reduce the costs that they face every day. Especially folks who need it most as we grow our clean economy. Our team believes BC is a place where everyone should be able to build a good life. Where you can afford a decent home and feel safe in your community. Where you have access to a family doctor. Now, I'm married to a family doctor and I know marrying a family doctor isn't the approach that's going to work for everybody. So we're going to make sure to find other ways to get you that family doctor. BC is a place where your kids should be learning in great schools. BC is a place where you should be able to find a good job in a growing clean economy. And BC is a place where we're going to do this all in partnership with Indigenous peoples. So our prosperity is shared more widely and more fairly. These are our priorities and we know that they're yours as well. In the months ahead, I'm asking you to join me and my team because we're just getting started. By working together, we can build a stronger, more secure BC that we all deserve. One where everyone belongs and no one gets left behind. Thank you for this amazing 100 days. It's been a pleasure and I can't wait to keep working for you.