BC Liberal Smoke & Mirrors
It is astounding that the B.C. Liberals campaign on debt reduction, job creation, balanced budgets, and small business tax reduction. Christy Clark presided over a plan to increase B.C.'s debt to $69 billion, a 50 per cent increase in provincial debt, and added $11 billion to the debt in her first two years in office. Statistic Canada reports B.C. lost 35,000 private sector jobs since the launch of the B.C. Liberals job plan. The B.C. Liberals balanced budgets by raiding $2.2 billion from B.C. Hydro through deferred expensing - pushing expenses into future years - balancing provincial budgets with profits that don't really exist. The result: eventual increased rates on Hydro to pay back the billions raided. They raided ICBC coffers while increasing insurance rates 11.2 per cent. Both are devious ways of taxing people. The current fudget budget, under reports expenses, over reports income, and focuses on the selloff of B.C. assets. Fact: Last election B.C. liberals promised to reduce small business income tax to the lowest rate in Canada, never happened. Reminds one of the promise of B.C. Rail and HST. The B.C. Liberal platform is smoke and mirrors coupled with illusion.
Richard Giroday
Prince George
