Juno News - August 13, 2025


Candice Malcolm and John Rustad discuss the B.C. NDP government’s runaway spending


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2 minutes

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177.01228

Word Count

519

Sentence Count

23


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00:00:00.000 Your opponent, David Eby, and his record in government, so BC's debt has been skyrocketing
00:00:05.200 in the first two years. This is in the Vancouver Sun, basically saying that they have increased
00:00:10.100 provincial debt by almost 50% in almost two years, just two years in office. Eby inherited
00:00:15.200 provincial debt of $89 billion a year. And at the end of this first year, it had soared to $133,
00:00:20.740 up $44 billion. What would you do differently? Well, this has been absolute insane spending by
00:00:28.140 this government, especially when it comes to the operating from the actual budget as opposed to the
00:00:35.360 capital side. And so they've gone from what was about a $5 or $6 billion surplus to what a lot
00:00:44.140 of people are estimating saying it would be an $18 billion deficit in just over two years.
00:00:49.860 How do you destroy the finances of this province so quickly and have nothing to show for it?
00:00:57.080 Nobody can point to anything in this province that is better under the NDP.
00:01:01.580 Anything, whether it's crime, whether it's drugs, whether it's housing, whether it's affordability, whether it's our economy, nothing is improving.
00:01:08.400 And so it really makes you wonder how and where they're spending this money.
00:01:12.440 When you look at our capital, yes, we need to invest in roads and we had to invest in hospitals and schools.
00:01:17.640 the budget the amount of capital that is allocated this year for capital projects
00:01:24.900 is the equivalent of all the cost overruns on the projects that they're running
00:01:29.700 so this has been just incompetence in terms of how they're actually getting projects done and
00:01:36.920 the way this way they spend money and it's there isn't a single thing they've been in power for
00:01:41.140 eight years now not going on not the ninth year there isn't a single project that's actually
00:01:45.720 completed in terms of highways or bridges or anything like that. Everything is still a work
00:01:49.760 in progress. And you look at it and think, how could this be that nothing could have gotten done
00:01:54.720 over that period of time? Well, you mentioned crime, and we have some statistics here. Violent
00:01:59.900 offenders in BC, why Canada's catch and release bails, are failing. So Vancouver recorded 6,256
00:02:05.580 violent crimes in 2023, including 4,900 assaults, a rise of 451 incidents compared to 2019.
00:02:11.880 the data shows that basically these policies where they can't keep bad guys behind bars
00:02:17.860 is obviously failing all Canadians, and particularly in British Columbia.
00:02:23.360 So I'm wondering if you can comment on, again, the crime rules and what you would do differently.
00:02:28.000 So in this province, for whatever reason, the judges and our Crown prosecutions
00:02:33.960 decided they don't want to put people in jail.
00:02:36.120 We've cut out, for example, this youth correction centre that I've heard from.
00:02:41.080 They have a capacity of 46 people.
00:02:43.260 They have typically between four and six people in there with that capacity.
00:02:48.100 So you kind of look at it and you think, well, we're not committing less crime.
00:02:51.820 How is it that we're not utilizing these facilities for what they need to be used for?