The province said in a news release that around 85 per cent of British Columbians will receive a full or partial payment as early as April 5 through the Canada Revenue Agency, just like the funds given in January.
Eby, who was sworn in as B.C.'s 37th premier in November, made the announcement at a news conference marking his first 100 days in office, where he recapped his work so far and set goals for the future. "We have to take action today to deal with our biggest challenges, and that's what the 100-day plan has been all about," he said.
He made the remarks from the Surrey campus of Simon Fraser University, where the province’s new medical school, that he announced in November, will be located.
Don't hold your breath. FYI, BC's is the ONLY government in Canada that hasn't figured out how to legislate cigarettes out of our drugstores. Manitoba was the last one to do it...back in 2013. LondonDrugs sells smokes while getting tax money to help smokers quit for free. Grrr.
Seriously? Disputing cash? Do you know what causes inflation? Distributing dollars to virtually everyone doesn’t make people better off. It just increases how much everyong costs.
Why do politicians treat their political anniversaries as some sort of time for celebration?
No didn’t. This was info we knew 6 months ago. Bandaids don’t work, weneed an actual increase of housing suppply b4 anything else. NDP has sunk our housing in bc
Where will this money come from? $164 per adult * (2016 census) 3,557,740 people is $583,469,360.00 or $0.5Billion // 583 Million. If we are printing it from thin-air, I'm afraid this will drive inflation by increasing the amount of money in the economy without increasing goods.
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