bc economy

Rising acidity in the ocean has killed over ten million scallops off the coast of Vancouver Island. When asked about this issue, Conservatives could only muster a "we are studying the problem."

Yesterday's 2014 B.C. budget contained very little news, as expected. B.C. has no forestry plan, no climate plan, no coherent infrastructure plan, no youth employment plan, no poverty reduction plan.

While arguments about deficits and "who is the better fiscal manager" may make for entertaining politics, there is no compelling economic reason why B.C. cannot run a few years of modest deficits.

There's been a lot of talk in British Columbia lately about #savebcfilm, but the question not yet asked is: does the B.C. film industry deserve to be saved?

What we really need is a strategic management framework that winds down our gas reserves over the next couple of decades, transitions to a zero carbon economy, and on the way provides revenues.