David Eby had a one-seat majority, a record $13.8-billion deficit, and an opposition whose leader quit on Sunday. On Tuesday he called an election two years early. Before he did, he paused the PST on your engineer. Paused, not scrapped.
Episode 34 of ICBA Coffee & Construction — the news that matters to the people who build British Columbia and Alberta, with ICBA's Jordan Bateman.
On today's show:
☕ THE BIG ONE: B.C. votes OCTOBER 24, a week after the municipal elections. Findlay is out, Doerkson is in, and seven CentreBC MLAs are back with the Conservatives. The first poll has the NDP at 41 and the Conservatives at 36, while 50% say B.C. is on the wrong track. Plus four questions to ask every candidate at your door.
🛢️ Tilbury LNG gets its yes. B.C. and Ottawa both sign off on FortisBC's Delta expansion: 6,200 years of construction work and up to $1.7 BILLION in GDP. The review started in February 2020. A day later, cabinet minister Kelly Greene says she won't run again, and she names Tilbury as the reason.
🚧 Where the work is: Wolf Midstream's $500-MILLION NGL North expansion in Alberta is a go, with permits done and construction underway. And Graham Infrastructure lands $33 million to give the 1956 Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge fifty more years.
🛢️ Danielle Smith says pipelines have gone from impossible to a national imperative. Ottawa offers First Nations along Trans Mountain a 15% ownership stake. And Smith makes her case for staying in Canada ahead of October 19.
