Was the marquee promise of the BC NDP’s election campaign a big, fat, whopper of a lie that the party could never fulfil but nonetheless dangled over the heads of British Columbians to buy cheap votes?
Yes — or at least it’s a pretty compelling argument for the Opposition BC Conservatives to make after Finance Minister Brenda Bailey pulled the plug on a $1,000 “grocery rebate” that Premier David Eby once called the “core piece” of his re-election campaign.
“We intended to do this, but the world has changed on us,” Bailey said Thursday, citing the threat of U.S. tariffs. “It’s become much more uncertain.”
The world was pretty uncertain
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