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British Columbia NDP Majority Government 2024-(no later than) 2029
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daftandbarmy
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Not really new information, but FWIW 
Editorial: B.C. will never be financially responsible under Eby's leadership
Premier David Eby’s New Democratic Party government is addicted to spending money it does not have.
British Columbians have had a few days to digest all the bad news in the provincial budget, one of the most irresponsible, disastrous and tone-deaf budgets in our history.
If there is a bright side, it’s that Finance Minister Brenda Bailey’s budget could have been worse — but rest assured, the worst is yet to come.
Premier David Eby’s New Democratic Party government is addicted to spending money it does not have. Borrowing it, in other words. That pushes responsibility down the road, making it someone else’s problem.
In this budget, the provincial government plans to tax more, borrow more and spend more — and it still can’t do everything it has promised to do. That’s almost beyond belief.
At times, deficit budgets make sense. Deficits in an economic downturn, for example, can help the province get through without serious cuts to services. But when deficits become the accepted norm, as they are under Eby, they create long-term problems for short-term gain.
All those deficits add to the provincial debt. The larger the debt, the less room the province will have to work on behalf of British Columbians, through good times and bad.
Consider the numbers:
The 2026-27 deficit will be $13.3 billion, the largest deficit in B.C. history. That is being driven by provincial spending, which is up 40 per cent in five years.
Revenue in that time is up only 18 per cent, which means more than half of the increase comes from borrowing. Debt servicing works out to $1,147 per person per year.
Editorial: B.C. will never be financially responsible under Eby's leadership
Premier David Eby’s New Democratic Party government is addicted to spending money it does not have.
British Columbians have had a few days to digest all the bad news in the provincial budget, one of the most irresponsible, disastrous and tone-deaf budgets in our history.
If there is a bright side, it’s that Finance Minister Brenda Bailey’s budget could have been worse — but rest assured, the worst is yet to come.
Premier David Eby’s New Democratic Party government is addicted to spending money it does not have. Borrowing it, in other words. That pushes responsibility down the road, making it someone else’s problem.
In this budget, the provincial government plans to tax more, borrow more and spend more — and it still can’t do everything it has promised to do. That’s almost beyond belief.
At times, deficit budgets make sense. Deficits in an economic downturn, for example, can help the province get through without serious cuts to services. But when deficits become the accepted norm, as they are under Eby, they create long-term problems for short-term gain.
All those deficits add to the provincial debt. The larger the debt, the less room the province will have to work on behalf of British Columbians, through good times and bad.
Consider the numbers:
The 2026-27 deficit will be $13.3 billion, the largest deficit in B.C. history. That is being driven by provincial spending, which is up 40 per cent in five years.
Revenue in that time is up only 18 per cent, which means more than half of the increase comes from borrowing. Debt servicing works out to $1,147 per person per year.
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One of the most enjoyable parts of the whole circus is how they kicked the deficit up to that number and then will pretend that by reducing it a little in future years they are being responsible.
"Sure, I set your house on fire, but then I put it out before it did too much damage."
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Let me fix the last line of your post for you:
“Sure, I set your house on fire, but I want credit for dumping a tea cup of water on the still raging inferno…”
OldSolduer
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Herein lies the problem with rampant "socialism": Its great til you run out of money.
Then you get empty grocery store shelves and lineups for bread.
Da Comrade?
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And since BC was pushing "Youth at the booth"
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daftandbarmy
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Welcome to the bad old days....
Rob Shaw: Eby's spending surge revives old doubts about NDP finances
A $6B surplus in 2022 has given way to a projected $13.3B deficit, undoing years of brand repair
Premier David Eby pictured with then-premier John Horgan in May 2019. Government of B.C.
The BC NDP government will seek this week to turn the page on the abysmal reception to its provincial budget, which hiked taxes for many British Columbians while also delivering the largest deficit in the province’s history.
But the damage to the party’s reputation may already be done.
For almost 30 years, the knock against New Democrats was that they simply could not be trusted with provincial finances. All the party knew how to do, its opponents argued, was tax-and-spend its way into economic decline—and occasionally, if caught, fudge the books.
The mythology took shape after the fall of the 1990s NDP regime. BC Liberal premier Gordon Campbell, and his successor Christy Clark, spent years describing the “dismal decade” of NDP financial management, where people and capital fled the province.
Rob Shaw: Eby's spending surge revives old doubts about NDP finances
A $6B surplus in 2022 has given way to a projected $13.3B deficit, undoing years of brand repair
Premier David Eby pictured with then-premier John Horgan in May 2019. Government of B.C.
The BC NDP government will seek this week to turn the page on the abysmal reception to its provincial budget, which hiked taxes for many British Columbians while also delivering the largest deficit in the province’s history.
But the damage to the party’s reputation may already be done.
For almost 30 years, the knock against New Democrats was that they simply could not be trusted with provincial finances. All the party knew how to do, its opponents argued, was tax-and-spend its way into economic decline—and occasionally, if caught, fudge the books.
The mythology took shape after the fall of the 1990s NDP regime. BC Liberal premier Gordon Campbell, and his successor Christy Clark, spent years describing the “dismal decade” of NDP financial management, where people and capital fled the province.
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An eternal cycle.
NDP: "We've changed. No, really".
Plurality of
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And since BC was pushing "Youth at the booth"
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Join a new generation of election officials. Learn. Earn. Serve. Youth at the Booth is Elections BC’s program to hire high school students as election officials during provincial elections and by-elections. Interested? You can take part in the program if you are a high school student: between 15...elections.bc.ca
Halifax Tar
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Just added an important detail.
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The NDP haven't run out of other peoples money- yet. They have simply hit the bottom part of the far upper tier of the borrowing limit. So now they've started to raise taxes (by taxing everything) and that's the other peoples money they are going to run out of in about 10 years.
Sadly they will not be defeated in the next election even, or even the one after that.
Sadly they will not be defeated in the next election even, or even the one after that.
daftandbarmy
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Meanwhile, business gets another kick in the pills
B.C. announces minimum wage increase
Provincial minimum wages are on the move again in 2026, with fresh increases announced in British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador along with previously confirmed hikes taking effect in Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
In British Columbia, the provincial government has confirmed that the general minimum wage will rise from $17.85 to $18.25 per hour on June 1, 2026, an increase indexed to the province’s 2025 inflation rate of just over 2.1 per cent.
The government says the annual adjustment is meant to ensure low‑wage earners’ pay “keeps pace with the cost of essentials” such as food and transportation, and continues its practice of linking minimum wage to the average rate of inflation in the previous year. Source: B.C. government news release.
B.C. announces minimum wage increase
Which other provinces have increases lined up for 2026?
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Workers and consumers get most of the kick. Businesses pass costs along in pricing, automate jobs away, cut hours, and only sometimes absorb the costs themselves.Meanwhile, business gets another kick in the pills
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