Waning business and consumer confidence, runaway housing costs, commodities nosedive among issues eroding economic optimism
February 16th 2016, the BC government will release the new budget.
"Is the economy important to you?” the Facebook ad from the BC Liberal Party asks. “Should we stay at #1?”
The answers are “yes” and “not sure,” and the implication is that if you want the B.C. economy to stay “#1” among Canadian provinces, you should vote for the BC Liberals and their small-c conservative strategies of keeping taxes and public expenditures low while boosting an exciting new liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry for the province.
B.C. led the country in economic growth in 2015 and is forecast to have the highest growth again in
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