23.02.2015 - Where is Christy Clark’s plan now to save some revenue from B.C.’s rich resources?
In the run-up to the 2013 election, Premier Christy Clark was dreaming big about sky-high LNG revenues, and a soon-to-be established Prosperity Fund to share today’s revenue from the non-renewable resource with tomorrow’s citizens. Does this mean the idea of some kind of sovereign wealth fund is, like much of Clark’s projected revenue stream, dead in the water? Of course a sovereign wealth fund is more than just a pot of money that sits and grows and is never spent. The authors note that other jurisdictions put earnings from the savings to such uses as stabilizing government revenues over time, funding infrastructure and even maintaining healthy pension funds...............................................Full Article: Source
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