After a big week of leadership elections and reviews, two of B.C.'s opposition political leaders laid out their starkly different agendas to local leaders Thursday morning at the Union of B.C. Municipalities' (UBCM) annual meeting.

For new B.C. Greens Leader Emily Lowan, this was her first major speech since winning the party's leadership contest on Wednesday after a campaign she dubbed "fight the oligarchs, fund the future." She called for a wealth tax and windfall profit tax to ensure the "richest corporations and the one per cent are paying their fair share."

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad, fresh off a contentious leadership review, attacked the NDP government's reconciliation agenda, arguing for the repeal of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act and an end to

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