Yesterday, BC Conservative Party Leader John Cummins asked, “Why is it so difficult for the BC Liberals
to be truthful about the province’s finances?”
He asked that after Finance Minister Mike de Jong released BC’s first quarterly report for the budget year 2012/13.
He asked that after Finance Minister Mike de Jong released BC’s first quarterly report for the budget year 2012/13.
Is this the government plan --- 'we'll just write it off' |
Cummins noted that the BC
Liberals have a long history of deception and deceit regarding British
Columbia’s finances.
This history of deception however goes back a lot longer than the BC
Liberals time in office, and as one person I know said; “sadly...most people just do not want to know.”
This is nothing new --- and nothing recent for that matter.
Regrettably I found that to be true when I ran for the BC Reform Party
in the 1996 provincial election ... and sadly nothing seems to have changed
since then.
Too many people only want to hear the sky is 'blue', even if there's storm
clouds roaring in, and howling winds right behind.
I’m going to toss some numbers out ( your eyes will now glaze over) on BC’s provincial debt. These are numbers that I would guess no more than five or ten percent of the population are even aware of:
I’m going to toss some numbers out ( your eyes will now glaze over) on BC’s provincial debt. These are numbers that I would guess no more than five or ten percent of the population are even aware of:
- when the NDP took power in '91 the provincial debt was $17.26 Billion
- when the BC Liberals took power in 2001 the provincial debt had hit $24.9 Billion
- by 2011 the Liberals had taken the debt to $45 Billion
- and for 2014/15 the Ministry of Finance has projected that provincial debt will exceed $66 BILLION