Interim British Columbia Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson is partly pinning his hopes on the province’s beleaguered forestry sector to carry his election platform’s forecast of 3.2 percent economic growth.
Doerkson says the sector is now in peril but has been a “ginormous contributor” to the province’s economy in the past, and the infrastructure is in place to “absolutely get back to business.”
The Conservatives’ growth projections exceed both the NDP’s projections for the province and the Bank of Canada’s national forecasts.
They say in their platform for Saturday’s election that GDP growth by 2029-2030 will yield $2.6 billion in new revenue that will help bring down the deficit that has reached record levels under the government of NDP Leader David Eby….