The province's net debt increased in 2021/22 by $2.6 billion to reach $55.8 billion.
bc government spending
November 23, 2021
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May 14, 2020
11:56AM
Debt as a share of the provincial economy could reach up to 19.8 per cent this year.
May 11, 2020
2:37PM
The provincial budget projected that net debt would grow to $48.9 billion in 2020/21.
May 7, 2020
9:51AM
CIBC predicts the province's unemployment rate will rise to 9.7 per cent.
August 10, 2018
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After just one full year in power, it seems British Columbians may be seeing history repeat itself with a return to the big spending NDP government of the 1990s.
July 27, 2018
9:12AM
Government workers in B.C. are absent from their jobs for personal reasons 49 per cent more often than private-sector workers.
February 16, 2018
12:35PM
Premier John Horgan’s NDP government campaigned on balanced budgets.