The pace of reform was head-spinning in the next three years (see our Achievements page). The Barrett government embarked on an endless stream of reforms, saving agricultural land, introducing publicly-owned low-cost car insurance, creating a province-wide ambulance service, and many other innovations still in place today. But for the NDP Women’s Rights Committee there was disappointment that the party’s policy to establish a Ministry of Women’s Rights was not one of those reforms. And sections of the union movement, led by the BC Federation of Labour, were unsatisfied with continuing restrictions on secondary picketing that they felt inhibited the unions’ ability to organize and win strikes.
It’s time for some progress
