Under Social Credit administration, per-capita ‘spending. on n health and inelfare services is already 35% higher i in British Columbia thanin any, ather Canadian Provir nee, During the next , seven years your Social Credit Govermment will increase social assistance rates even more - and further increases will ‘be made to the blind, retarded and intirm. . Your Social Credit Government already pays the highest old age pension bonusas In Canada, : During the dynamic years ahead, these bonuses will be steadily increased to further improve the living standards of our senior citizens. Under your Social Credit Government's massive hospital construction program more than 650 new hospital beds are now being: Provided. Further projects involving 1878 more beds are in the advgnced planning stage. In addition, your Government will co- “operate fully with: local authorities to provide new facilities for the chronically ill. . Your Social Credit Government already has spent more on education’ than’ any y previous Fie administration i in the Province's history. This expansion of facilities will be continued at all “fevels - - elementary and secondary schools, universities, technical institutes, vecational * schools and employment retraining facilities, The Social Credit Government pioneered the “money: for-marks"" plan which pays part of the tuition fees of many university students, This widely acclaimed plan ~ still the only one of its” kind i in all of Canada ~ will be extended to include thousands more students, and the percentage contribution of fees 8 paid by the Government will be increased even further. for progress not politics! _ yo INSEATED AY THE BRITRH COLUMELA BOCIAL OREDIT cAMPaian COMMITTEE