Thursday December 12, 2024 | VICTORIA, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
The BC economy has led Canada across all provinces for GDP growth, said Premier David Eby on Monday December 9.
“The economy has been badly hurt by the decisions of the central bank in Ottawa, to raise interest rates. That hurts British Columbians more than it hurts other people in other provinces,” said Eby during a media session in Vancouver about wind-power electrical generation projects.
“And despite that, we still grew the fastest in Canada,” he added.
“I’m going to push hard to make sure we’ve got a federal partner that recognizes that British Columbia taxpayers pay out dollars to support people across Canada through equalization payments,” said Eby.
Eby said that the federal government needs to support BC “in kind”, the way other provinces are getting support payments from the federal government.
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