New Democrat Leader David Eby is making a late appeal to voters to support the party even if they never have before, as the British Columbia election campaign enters it final days.
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Elections BC says about 597,000 people have already voted in four days of advance polling.
Eby stood at the constuction site with a sign in the background parodying anti-NDP political billboards put up outside the home of Vancouver billionaire Chip Wilson during the campaign.
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Eby focused Tuesday on Surrey-South B.C. Conservative candidate Brent Chapman, whose social media posts about Palestinians, residential schools and mass shootings at a Quebec mosque and the Sandy Hook school in the U.S. have surfaced during the campaign.
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Rustad has refused calls to drop Chapman as a candidate.
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Rustad has said he would eliminate the provincial carbon tax and exempt up to $3,000 a month in rent or mortgage payments from income taxes, while eliminating the provincial deficit within two terms of government.
The NDP and the Green Party have already released costed platforms that both forecast adding about $2.9 billion to the deficit in their first years.
The Greens say their platform would increase the province香蕉视频直播檚 deficit by about $1.5 billion in its third year, while the NDP has said theirs would do so by an almost identical amount by 2026-2027.
B.C. budget deficit is projected to be a record $9 billion this year.
Green Leader Sonia Furstenau said Tuesday that Rustad and his Conservatives are 香蕉视频直播渘ot serious enough to govern香蕉视频直播� and they 香蕉视频直播渄o not deserve the kind of support they香蕉视频直播檙e getting right now.香蕉视频直播�
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