VANCOUVER, B.C. – David Eby released his platform today and asked British Columbians to trust his numbers one more time. But his promises are worth nothing. He will do and say anything to try and save his political skin. And if he manages to save his job, he’ll just find more excuses for breaking his promises after the election. Just like he did the last time.
In the 2024 election, Eby promised to bring the deficit down to $7.6 billion. Instead, he nearly doubled it to $14 billion in just two years, the largest deficit in British Columbia’s history. Now he is promising to reduce the deficit again. It is the same promise from the same premier who broke the last one.
And just a few months ago, the NDP government were forced to admit its budget had overstated revenue by nearly $1.5 billion. On top of this, Eby’s own office knew the Massey Tunnel replacement had doubled to $8.5 billion, yet his budget told British Columbians it was only $4.3 billion.
The NDP’s main new source of revenue is a tax on doctors that Eby claims will raise $1 billion, even though UBC economists have said the Doctor Tax will not bring in what the NDP is promising. Eby’s only real revenue plan is to tax the doctors British Columbians are already struggling to find.
The NDP’s Youth Jobs Tax Credit has the same problem. The party’s own costing comes up $100 million short, a nine-figure gap in a program that was supposed to be one of the platform’s headline commitments.
The pattern is clear. The NDP spends more, taxes more and keeps missing its own targets. Even former federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair has said tax levels like the ones Eby is pursuing aren’t taxation but confiscation. Under the NDP, British Columbians get high taxes and low growth, and the deficit keeps rising.
Only the Conservative Party of BC will supercharge British Columbia’s economy with a high-growth agenda that pays for priorities by growing the economy, not by taxing doctors and families.
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