Vaughn Palmer: Projects look cancelled, despite NDP insisting they're 're-paced'

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Vaughn Palmer: Projects look cancelled, despite NDP insisting they're 're-paced'

Vaughn Palmer: B.C.'s governing NDP introduced a new euphemism — 're-pace' — to describe 'not cancelled,' but moribund, health-care projects

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VICTORIA — The New Democrats introduced a new word into the budget debate this year with the announcement that $3.5 billion worth of capital projects would be “re-paced.”

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“There are pressures on the government’s fiscal and debt outlook,” explained the budget documents back in February. “These create conditions where government must make careful choices on its capital plan in the long term.”

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