In recent years, many economists and policy analysts have sounded the alarm about British Columbia’s rapidly deteriorating provincial finances.

The province has gone from having some of the most sound finances in Canada a decade ago to the least sustainable finances of any province, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada’s budget watchdog.

So how did we get here?

In short, debt has grown much faster under Premier David Eby than under any of his recent predecessors—specifically, by an annual average rate of $2,612 per year (inflation-adjusted)........

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