Finance Minister Brenda Bailey cited ‘great economic uncertainty’
B.C.’s new Finance Minister, Brenda Bailey, declined to answer a yes-or-no question Monday with either a yes or no when she was asked if the provincial government would follow through on its keystone election promise to make life a little easier for families by sending most of them a $1,000 cheque.
But by the end of the day, Trump was once again musing about the tariffs, saying in the Oval Office that he would impose them Feb. 1. The party went on to win the October election, but just barely. The Conservatives, who had run on a platform of returning to “fiscal sanity,” won 44 seats to the NDP’s 47. Their platform was also pricey, costing about $2.6-billion in increased government spending and reduced revenues.
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