B.C. set to deliver fourth straight balanced budget
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Liberal government is set to deliver a fourth consecutive balanced budget Tuesday with sprinkles of relief expected for first-time home buyers trying to get into a red hot real estate market.
Tweaks were also signalled on medical services premiums and more cash promised for social service programs in a throne speech last week that said the government will “resist the temptation to spend our way into trouble.”
Premier Christy Clark said the budget targets affordability on several fronts, but the measures will be incremental.
“The budget, what you’ll see, is relief across the board for people in all different sectors,” she told reporters last week in Vancouver.