| As the B.C. legislature approached the end of spring session this week, Opposition critic Carole James challenged Finance Minister Mike de Jong over the whereabouts of the B.C. Liberals’ $100-billion prosperity fund.
“The elusive prosperity fund,” as she dubbed it, mindful of how a promise that figured so prominently in the last election campaign has lapsed to relative obscurity ever since. Still, as James noted Monday, de Jong’s ministerial mandate includes crafting “legislation to create the prosperity fund” and working out how the fund will “contribute to eliminating the province’s debt” — which now totals some $64 billion..........................................Full Article: Source
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