B.C.’s New Democrat government put on a masterclass Thursday in how to spend somebody else’s money while still managing to take all the credit for themselves, trumpeting a major new investment in child-care spaces that appeared to have very little to do with the province at all.

Minister of State for Child Care Mitzi Dean announced 600 new child spots, spread throughout the province, at a press conference in Langford, on Vancouver Island.

“We're going to continue investing in child care,” she said, turning her sights on BC United leader Kevin Falcon and BC Conservative leader John Rustad.

“We know how important it is. The other guys don't. We had a desert of child care here in the West Shore, people had to commute. We want to make sure that the government of British Columbia continues to invest in child care because we know how vital it is.”

Dean stood at a B.C. government podium with a sign “taking action for........

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