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By 2022/23, the province will have accumulated an estimated $46.6 billion in net debt.
From 1973 to 1996, Canada's average annual unemployment rate was 8.9 per cent.
Alberta saw spending reductions of 20 per cent during the reforms of the 1990s.
Housing unit completions in B.C. have remained relatively flat over the last decade.
The province projects a $535 million increase in net debt this year alone.
The court concluded that Ottawa can't encroach upon provincial jurisdiction merely by citing climate change as a national concern.
Newfoundland and Labrador has the highest per-person total government debt among the provinces at $48,478.
The province's base education budget is scheduled to increase by 2.5 per cent this year.
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