"This program applies province wide, not just in the Vancouver area, so there are places where people will benefit from this that don't live anywhere near Vancouver."

Sure, but the Lower Mainland and the Victoria area are both very expensive, and increasingly so. These two areas represent nearly 2/3 of the province's population.

Having grown up in smaller communities in BC, I'm not one to discount their needs at all. But government policy fixation - at all levels - on encouraging market participation and preserving high prices is de-diversifying our provincial economy and harming the future of communities where the majority of British Columbians reside.