Credit rating agencies S&P and Moody’s have both downgraded British Columbia’s rating on the same day, citing the province’s ballooning deficit and the apparent lack of a plan to dig the province out of its fiscal hole.
S&P Global Ratings cut the province’s long-term issuer credit rating to A+ from AA- on Wednesday, while Moody’s Ratings downgraded its key baseline assessment to aa2 from aa1.
Moody’s said in a news release that its downgrade reflected a “structural deterioration in British Columbia’s credit profile” and it predicted this year’s deficit would soar to $14.3 billion….