The job of the Ministry of Economic Development is to seek a bigger Gross Provincial Product, and a bigger return on provincial investments - including this one.

 

The province and its capital region is suffering an image problem with one of it’s most important resources - tourists - both because of the sewage problem and its homelessness problem.  

 

Secondary treatment is a pre-WWI technology that does nothing to address the real (new, and emerging) risks. BC should be arguing for national, outcomes-based standards at CCME. And we should be taking advantage of a real technical development opportunity for BC firms.

 

The DM proposed using $120 million of the $1.2 billion estimated cost to solve the homelessness problem in Victoria.  Offer 8 prizes of $10 million each for anybody who can develop the intellectual property associated with a pill that can be used for individual treatment of risks from pharmaceutical residues in wastewater.