Currently, next fall’s referendum requires only 50 per cent-plus one of the popular vote.
NDP
The province will spend nearly $22 billion on health care in 2018/19.
Premier John Horgan’s NDP government campaigned on balanced budgets.
Despite support from local politicians and First Nations groups, Andrew Weaver is digging in his heels on LNG.
B.C.’s climate change programs violate sound economic reasoning.
Like all taxes, a carbon tax imposes its own burdens and amplifies the economic costs of all other taxes in the economy.
The budget creates a new, higher top personal income tax rate of 16.8 per cent.
Quebec and B.C. have experienced more labour disruptions than any other province over the past nine years.
The NDP-Green tax changes, if fully implemented, will increase the tax burden for the average British Columbian family by $594.
Uncertainty—particularly from the potential for higher taxes—will make B.C. less attractive to business.