Vaughn Palmer: B.C. premier lauds public debt as critical for key projects

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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. premier lauds public debt as critical for key projects

David Eby mostly sticks to hypothetical what-ifs in attacking opposition Conservatives

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VICTORIA — After briefly flirting with fiscal restraint in this year’s budget, Premier David Eby was back on the more familiar ground of spending and borrowing at an event last week marking progress on the Surrey-to-Langley SkyTrain extension.

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“This project is not only necessary and essential,” said Eby. “It will create new economic opportunities, it will increase prosperity, and it will make life better for people south of the Fraser. And to build this project, we have to borrow money and that is what the debt is........

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