NDP hits the brakes on fall sitting of the B.C. legislature [Video]

The tree at the B.C. legislature is already up and decorated, but you would be hard pressed to spot an MLA in the hallways, and they won’t gather in the chamber for more than two months, until February’s Throne Speech.

Hamish Telford, a political scientist at the University of the Fraser Valley, calls the delay unacceptable.

“They need to authorize some of their key promises through legislation,” he said Monday.

“I think it’s terribly problematic, as soon as possible the legislature should resume following an election.”

On Oct. 22., three days after the election, B.C. Premier David Eby said his team was going to hit the ground running.

“British Columbians want us to get to work right away on the issues that they’re concerned about, that’s certainly the message that I took,” he said at the time.

Eby told reporters last month he planned to hold a fall sitting. “My …