It was a much more negative picture than Mr. Campbell portrayed just three weeks ago: "This is where the jobs are. This is where the growth is, right here in the province of British Columbia."
pulled a McCain, ouch.
"Our economy has been largely cushioned by construction. So this is an area where the government has a lot of capacity to do some stuff, infrastructure and so on," said Darcy Rezac, managing director of the Vancouver Board of Trade.
we're doomed after the olympics or even before it. Ritz has been suspended.
However, the promise to accelerate capital spending did not include any figures and could result in increased debt for the province.[/p] It's a practice that Mr. Campbell eschewed in 1998, when he insisted that spending was no solution for economic troubles.[/p] "The answer to the current economic crisis in B.C. is not more government debt and overspending," Mr. Campbell, then leader of the Liberal opposition, wrote in a letter to The Vancouver Sun. "More debt does not solve anything. It means more taxes and fewer services tomorrow."[/p]---[/p]
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