Nearly every chart associated with the BC government’s debt, deficit and borrowing looks like the route profile up Mount Everest now (Times Colonist)

Standing in front of hundreds of public officials who are legally prohibited from operating in the red and fretting about how tough it is to reduce the gigantic deficits you are running is a bit … awkward.

But that was Finance Minister Brenda Bailey’s lot in life this week at the Union of BC Municipalities convention.

There wasn’t what you’d call a “wave of sympathy” from the local leaders, who spend months every year chopping costs to make expenses match revenue.

It felt more like “cry me a river”  ...

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