Was the marquee promise of the BC NDP’s election campaign a big, fat, whopper of a lie that the party could never fulfill but nonetheless dangled over the heads of British Columbians to buy cheap votes? Yes — or at least it’s a pretty compelling argument for the Opposition BC Conservatives to make after Finance Minister Brenda Bailey pulled the plug on a $1,000 “grocery rebate” that Premier David Eby once called the “core piece” of his re-election campaign ... ... “Now” was the operative word. Eby spent weeks hammering home how his plan would put cash in the wallets of British Columbians within months ... ... from the moment the promise first left the premier’s lips, there were rumbles it might never actually happen ... CLICK HERE for the full story
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