The BC Conservative Party plans to have an $11-billion deficit in the first year but estimates a regression of deficit spending over time based on a generous estimate of GDP growth.
BC Conservative leader John Rustad released his party’s semi-costed platform Tuesday — four days ahead of the Oct. 19 provincial election — promising to balance the budget within eight years after first spending more than the BC NDP has committed to, over the next two years.
“The platform, when you look at the NDP’s budget that they brought forward in March 2024 — which of course they have blown within three months; they’ve actually added another $1 billion in budget to that — but when you look at that, we will be adding, over the next two years, an extra $2.3 billion in additional spending plus the additional tax relief that we are looking at putting on top of that.”
“I want to be straight up with people right now in terms of the fact we will be adding spending and that we will be adding tax relief for the people of British Columbia,” said Rustad. Rustad also alluded to a $4-billion contingency baked into the current government budget and said the Clean BC program would be reviewed.
Chapman also questioned if recent high-profile mass shootings, such as Quebec City, Orlando and Sandy Hook, were the product of media and police disinformation.
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