The Kamloops Chamber will be heavily involved in the BC Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting which begins today.

President Joshua Knaak says the Kamloops Chamber is bringing forward eight policies to be voted on at the conference.

He says there are three new policies and five repeated ones, which include requests around Daylight Savings Time, the provincial sales tax for contractors and entry-level truck driver training.

“All Chambers are certainly invited and most attend. I was looking at the policy manual for this year, there’s around 60 policies that will come to the floor for debate and a vote.”

Knaak points out all policies are member-driven and are meant to revenue-neutral.

“It would be really easy to just turn around and say, ‘cut taxes, increase benefits.’ But we know that you can’t do that. So in any of the recommendations we make to government, we’re always cognitive of the fact that if you’re going to be giving up funds in one area, you’re going to have to give them back in another. And so we don’t just become the squeaky wheel that says ‘lower taxes, but do more for us.'”

The AGM takes place in Burnaby from today until Saturday.