B.C. Liberals table school bus seatbelt bill; NDP says it’s waiting on Ottawa

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B.C. Liberals table school bus seatbelt bill; NDP says it’s waiting on Ottawa GlobeBC

Liberal candidate Laurie Throness for Chilliwack - Hope during a joint press conference in Port Moody on March 22, 2012.British Columbia’s Opposition Liberals want seatbelts in all new school buses.

Throness cited Transport Canada information from more 25,000 collisions involving school buses in Canada from 1995 to 2004 that resulted in five deaths and more than 3,400 injuries.He says the proposed legislation would change B.C.’s Motor Vehicle Act to ensure school buses purchased after September 1, 2021 would be equipped with seatbelts.

 

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GlobeBC Waiting for Ottawa to what? Put the seatbelts in the buses. It is morally the right thing to do... Any other decision is contemptible.

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