BC Budget 2011

CCPA-BC Recommendations to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services

On September 15, researcher Iglika Ivanova presented CCPA-BC’s recommendations for the 2011 BC Budget to the legislature’s Select Standing Committe on Finance and Government Services. These slides offer a brief overview of BC’s current budget situation and economic outlook, and our recommendations for boosting the province’s recovery from the recession.

About the author

Iglika Ivanova

Iglika Ivanova is a Senior Economist and the Public Interest Researcher at the CCPA’s BC Office. She researches and writes on key social and economic challenges facing BC and Canada, including poverty, economic insecurity and labour market shifts towards more precarious work. Iglika is Co-Director of the Understanding Precarity in BC Project (UP-BC). Iglika also investigates issues of government finance, tax policy and privatization and how they relate to the accessibility and quality of public services. She is particularly interested in the potential for public policy to build a more just, inclusive and sustainable economy. Follow Iglika on Twitter