A day after a debate with no clear winner, NDP Leader David Eby announced free bus passes for low-income seniors, rapid transit from Surrey to White Rock, and continued work on the Surrey to Langley SkyTrain. Most questions he faced concerned a leaked briefing note showing plans to transfer 400 plots of Crown land to First Nations without compensating forestry companies; Eby said many plots are covered by older agreements and the aim is to reduce fiscal costs. Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson promised a new women and children's hospital in Surrey and to revisit the Massey Tunnel replacement with a 10-lane bridge, which Eby said would add two to four years and push costs beyond the already inflated $8.5 billion. Green Leader Emily Lowan proposed raising minimum wage above inflation every year until a living wage is reached, while Research Co. president Mario Canseco said the lack of a knockout blow could hurt the trailing NDP.
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