Ever since it was barely re-elected, the BC NDP government has promised a renewed focus on growing the economy, creating jobs and generating new sources of revenue to backstop overwhelmed core services like health care and education.
So it is perhaps surprising to hear that since the Oct. 19 election, no cabinet ministers, nor the premier himself, have responded to requests to sit down and hear out a series of increasingly urgent concerns from the province’s top business leaders.
The absence left open a political opportunity for the new Opposition BC Conservative party, which seized upon the issue Tuesday to trumpet that it had sent not one, not two,
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