The Conservative Party of B.C. has released its costed platform just days before the election, saying its plan will see a balanced budget within two terms.
Party leader John Rustad introduced the platform costs at a press conference at the University of British Columbia campus on Oct. 15.
“I’m not going to be coming in and being draconian and say there should be cuts,” he said. “We want to make sure we protect the front-line services that are needed in B.C.”
The platform says the party will “Eliminate the BC Carbon Tax.”
B.C. was the first region in North America to implement a carbon tax in 2008. Provinces are required by the federal government to impose the federal carbon tax scheme if they don’t have a carbon pricing system of their own….