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Issue(s): Alternative budgets, Government finance
February 1, 2003
Tuesday is BC Budget day. As the province stares down the largest deficit in its history, and braces for two more years of painful spending cuts, many British Columbians are wondering if it really had to be this way.
Could much of this hardship and red ink have been avoided? Could the school, hospital and child care closures have been prevented? Did the welfare cuts have to happen? Could we have done all this and still balance the budget by 2004/05?
Sound like wishful thinking? Not at all.