Bowinn MaMinister of Infrastructure

Recent interventions

A teaser slice of each chamber intervention — read the full text on the official record.

1. Oral Questions — Penticton-Summerland Area Fire and Availability of Long-Term-Care Beds

   We’re committed to ensuring that this project gets built. The extent of the damage so far is unknown. We do know that the fire is out, but the site itself is currently unstable. So there’s still more work to be done to u…

   2026-05-28·Legislative Assembly·Official record ↗

2. Oral Questions — Amy Woodland Elementary School Replacement

   Thank you to the member, again, for raising yet another example of how structural fires are devastating aspects of our public services. We have seen so many fires at schools, and every single one has had an impact on the…

   2026-05-28·Legislative Assembly·Official record ↗

3. Oral Questions — Penticton-Summerland Area Fire and Availability of Long-Term-Care Beds

   What happened last night was, as the member correctly described in her introductory remarks, devastating. It was devastating to the families that had to be evacuated from their homes because of their proximity to this m…

   2026-05-28·Legislative Assembly·Official record ↗

4. Oral Questions — Health Care Facilities and Government Management of Capital Projects

   All of this being said, there are absolutely some projects, including Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project, phase 2, and the seven long-term-care projects, which have faced cost escalations that we have deemed unaccept…

   2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Official record ↗

5. Oral Questions — Health Care Facilities and Government Management of Capital Projects

   We’ve canvassed this question and this topic many times in the House before. I can assure the member that all seven long-term-care projects, as well as phase 2 of the Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project, remain approv…

   2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Official record ↗

6. Oral Questions — Health Care Facilities and Government Management of Capital Projects

   Since 2017, we have been delivering the single largest capital infrastructure program investment plan in health care in B.C. history. During that time, we have so far completed 15 major new and upgraded hospital and heal…

   2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Official record ↗

7. Oral Questions — Carihi Secondary School Fire Recovery and Restoration

   What happened at Carihi High is truly tragic. We have seen so many situations, so many examples of where fire has ravaged our valued school system across the province. On November 21, 2024, as the member said, a structur…

   2026-05-21·Legislative Assembly·Official record ↗

8. Oral Questions — Burnaby Hospital Expansion Project and Cancer Care Centre

   I want to take a moment to thank the members of the government caucus who serve Burnaby so diligently for their stalwart advocacy and continued support for the expansion of Burnaby Hospital. Not a week goes by when I don…

   2026-05-06·Legislative Assembly·Official record ↗

9. Oral Questions — Burnaby Hospital Expansion Project and Cancer Care Centre

   I was in that meeting with the associate deputy minister and the hospital foundation, and that is not the correct characterization of what the associate deputy minister said. What we said is that the latest fully funded…

   2026-05-06·Legislative Assembly·Official record ↗

10. Oral Questions — Burnaby Hospital Expansion Project and Cancer Care Centre

    The project is not cancelled. The only people saying that it is cancelled are the members of the opposition. Interjections.

    2026-05-04·Legislative Assembly·Official record ↗