Throne Speech offers tax breaks, more preschool options and cheaper housing

Other than the measures to help families, the speech was heavy with rhetoric designed to promote the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. “The Olympics platform is a launching pad to lift British Columbia and Canada to new heights and new prosperity,” the speech read.

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