Dan Hines
Candidate for Kamloops-South Thompson
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Phone: 778-696-2300
Personal Information
Resident of: South KamloopsAge: 55
Current Occupation: International Leadership Consultant
Political Experience:
I ran for office in Kamloops in the last BC Election 2017.
Biography
Dan Hines serves as an international leadership consultant and facilitator. For the past two years he has taught leaders in Beijing, China. Mentored by the well-respected democracy activist Parker J. Palmer , Dan helps leaders reconnect their passion with their work. He teaches what he tries to live: authenticity and integrity. He is an ordained Anglican priest, an advocate for innovative housing models, a founding member of the RareBirds Housing Co-operative, and an active citizen in many aspects of community life in Kamloops. Dan has also managed a zoo, owned a contractor business, and taught horticulture and ancient Greek! He has two degrees in theology and is an avid reader and researcher.
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Answers to Questions from the Public
Darryl Schmidt asks the Kamloops-North Thompson, Kamloops-South Thompson Candidates
What are your plans to stimulate high paying jobs specifically in the Kamloops area?
Dan Hines Answered
Two areas of our local economy that will continue to offer stable well-paid employment will be in the health fields, especially focused around RIH (especially as it continues to expand services as a regional health center), and in education, focused around the ongoing development of Thompson Rivers University. We need to be attentive to direct more investment into these areas and facilities: advocating to the provincial government for even greater funding support. Post-pandemic, there will be a recovery of tourism and hospitality. In the BC economy, tourism has provided over 160,000 jobs and has revenues of $20.5 billion. We are poised well for the surge of demand after this trying time. It is vital that we support our tourism industry now in the pandemic. Mining and Forestry will continue to provide well-paid employment; yet there is a need for innovation in our forestry practices and for a larger provincial reform of how forestry can provide greater benefits to local communities, including Kamloops.
Darryl Schmidt asks the Kamloops-North Thompson, Kamloops-South Thompson Candidates
What are your plans to increase affordable housing if any?
Dan Hines Answered
BC Greens announced a $500 million program for Renters Support.
43% of renters in BC (about 250,000 people) spend over 30% of their income on rent.
This is having significant adverse effects on peoples’ mental health and wellbeing and makes it more difficult to save and plan for the future.
Despite some progress to cool the housing market, we need to do more to support people who rent their homes.
The B.C. Greens’ rental support program would:
Target low and moderate income earners who are paying more than is affordable on their rent.
Close the gap between affordable rent and what renters are actually paying.
Be a means-tested grant that applies to low and moderate income earners who are paying more than 30% of their income in rent.
(The B.C. Greens’ program differs from the B.C. NDP’s $400 rental rebate because it is a means-tested support for low- and moderate-income households paying too much in rent.)