Eby promises funding for new Filipino Community Centre

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Well, good news today as well. Premier David Eby announced that the BCNDP will invest $15 million in the proposed Provincial Filipino Cultural Centre. Good news for the community. There's been lots going on within the Filipino community, as we all know, in dealing with the Lapu-Lapu tragedy, but also a desire to have a space to build a community centre. Joining us now to talk about this issue and the work ahead, of course, is Mable Elmore, BCNDP candidate for Vancouver, Kensington. Good to see you. Thanks for dropping by. Great to be here, Joss. First of all, just today's a pretty big day, $15 million, which the BCNDP have promised, elected to put forward. And I might add the BC Conservatives also said they will do the same. Pretty big day for the community.

Absolutely. Yeah, it's a significant commitment. Appreciate that. The community has really wanted a center for the past four decades. And since I've been elected, that's been what they've been asking me and been working on it for the last 10 years. John Horgan made the first commitment in the 2017 campaign to build and support the Filipino Cultural Center. So continue to work on that, move it forward. And the community's really anxious to see that. What's

the size of the community now, roughly, in B.C.? ?

It's about 170,000 in BC, 130,000, 140,000 in Metro Vancouver. So, you know, you go to any community and you're going to find Filipinos right across the province.

Yeah. In regards to the site itself, where would the site be? And in regards to community center, what would it actually entail? What would it look like in the sense of what services would be provided? Yeah.

Yeah, so the announcement today was kind of a general broad announcement in terms of commitment for $15 million. And my recommendation is also an opportunity to make an announcement in terms of the site. So that's kind of the next step to come and an opportunity to do that. And, you know, we've got strong support from the City of Vancouver in terms of zoning and bylaws. So building the center in Vancouver, and you mentioned and referenced, yeah, just the communities we're covering and the whole community from the aftermath of the terrible tragedy of Lapu-Lapu Day. So Vancouver really fits and, yeah, need to move it forward.

And Ottawa is putting money into this as well, right?

They have committed.

$15 million as well?

Well, they've committed in the previous two budgets. So, you know, we're going to be asking them for matching. So that's the plan.

So will there be fundraising by the community as well in regards to this center?

100%. Yeah, it's going to require, you know, right across the board,