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BC NDP

David Eby

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Constituency
Vancouver-Point Grey
First elected
2013-05-14

MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey since 2013. Became 37th Premier of British Columbia on November 18, 2022, following the resignation of John Horgan. Publicly defended BC's carbon tax in November 2023, then pledged to scrap it weeks before the October 2024 election. Has consistently defended his 2019 vote for DRIPA, including in the Legislative Assembly on November 20, 2025.

Legislative Assembly profile →Wikipedia →Last updated on this site 2026-04-24

Party history

Chronological record of caucus affiliation. Stint boundaries are the dates the MLA began or stopped sitting under each affiliation.

  1. BC NDP2013-05-14 — 2022-11-18
  2. BC NDP2022-11-18 — present

    Role: Premier

Flip-flops on record

Consumer carbon tax

U-turn· 10 months

Pledged at the November 2023 BC NDP convention that the province would not back down on the carbon tax even if the rest of Canada abandoned it. On September 12, 2024, weeks before the provincial election, announced BC would scrap the consumer carbon tax if Ottawa dropped its legal requirement. BC's consumer carbon tax was subsequently eliminated in 2025.

interviewConsumer carbon tax
“Let me be clear: we will not back down. God forbid, if the rest of the country abandons the fight against climate, B.C. will stand strong.”

Said at the 2023 BC NDP convention while pledging that BC would uphold the carbon tax as other provinces began backing away from federal carbon-pricing commitments.

Source: CBC News — BC NDP shifting positions on carbon tax →Archive →Captured 2026-04-23
press releaseConsumer carbon tax
“If the federal government decides to remove the legal backstop requiring us to have a consumer carbon tax in B.C., we will end the consumer carbon tax in B.C.”

Announced at a September 12, 2024 press event one month before the BC provincial election. In the same announcement Eby also said: "Two things will happen. One is we'll remove the carbon tax for everyday British Columbians, for the farmers, for the truckers, for the average British Columbian." The federal backstop was removed in 2025 and BC subsequently eliminated its consumer carbon tax.

Source: CBC News — BC will scrap consumer carbon tax if Ottawa drops legal requirement →Archive →Captured 2026-04-23

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interviewConsumer carbon tax
“Let me be clear: we will not back down. God forbid, if the rest of the country abandons the fight against climate, B.C. will stand strong.”

Said at the 2023 BC NDP convention while pledging that BC would uphold the carbon tax as other provinces began backing away from federal carbon-pricing commitments.

Source: CBC News — BC NDP shifting positions on carbon tax →Archive →Captured 2026-04-23
hansardDRIPA / UNDRIP
“The member is completely wrong when she thinks about reconciliation as a cost, because in our province, reconciliation represents, we believe, in the order of probably $100 billion to $150 billion in economic activity, tens of thousands of jobs, and certainty and predictability for people and businesses across the province. These numbers are backed by companies advancing major projects in this country.”

Response to independent MLA Tara Armstrong in the Legislative Assembly. Eby defended his 2019 vote for DRIPA and the broader reconciliation framework, characterising opposition to it as "clearly anti-Indigenous, unambiguously racist." This position is consistent with his 2019 caucus vote in favour of DRIPA — not a flip.

Source: BC Hansard, 43rd Parliament, 1st Session, Issue No. 101 →Captured 2026-04-24
press releaseConsumer carbon tax
“If the federal government decides to remove the legal backstop requiring us to have a consumer carbon tax in B.C., we will end the consumer carbon tax in B.C.”

Announced at a September 12, 2024 press event one month before the BC provincial election. In the same announcement Eby also said: "Two things will happen. One is we'll remove the carbon tax for everyday British Columbians, for the farmers, for the truckers, for the average British Columbian." The federal backstop was removed in 2025 and BC subsequently eliminated its consumer carbon tax.

Source: CBC News — BC will scrap consumer carbon tax if Ottawa drops legal requirement →Archive →Captured 2026-04-23