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BC’s ‘balanced budget’ is costing ordinary citizens

[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo credit: Images Money[/caption] While BC residents deal with exorbitantly high living costs and public services that lag behind the rest of Canada, the new provincial budget recently tabled by the Liberal majority shows a clear lack of understanding of current needs for improvements to funding in British Columbia. Premier Christy Clark remains obsessed with balancing the province’s books at the expense of ordinary British Columbians. Instead of putting its $879 million surplus to make desperately-needed increases to areas like education or poverty reduction, the province is paying off its ballooning debt — BC’s total debt…

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