B.C. budget to buffer province against Trump’s ‘uncertainty and disorder’: minister

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B.C. government 'really in a bind' as budget aims for flexibility amid tariff uncertainty

The B.C. government's 2025/26 budget comes as the province is constrained by the start of a trade war prompted by U.S. tariffs, but political watchers say B.C. has many unmet needs and also needs a long-term vision.

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B.C. Budget 2025: U.S. tariffs overshadow budget as record deficit projected

The budget put forward a modest $5.7 billion increase in spending over the course of the next three years.

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B.C. finance minister to speak to business group a day after budget amid tariffs

VICTORIA — British Columbia's finance minister is starting to sell her budget to the public complete with a record deficit in the early days of a trade war with the United States.

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B.C. budget brings record deficit, billions in trade-war contingencies

VICTORIA — The days leading up to British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey’s first budget had been a blur, she said, each “blended into the other” as she and her staff tried to keep up with unspooling developments in a potential Canada-U. S.

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CPABC: B.C.’s 2025 Budget focuses on core public services to support British Columbians through a period of economic uncertainty

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The B.C. Government released their 2025/26 budget today, shortly after the United States officially launched a trade war against Canada by imposing sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods. The 2025 budget focuses…

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In his 1977 book, American economist Galbraith argued that an unpredictable "age of uncertainty" began with World War I. He placed great importance on the shaking of the rule of the aristocracy and capitalists, and the destabilization of the monetary economy. It is said that history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. The Lehman Shock, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukrainian war... The world has been at the mercy of overflowing sources of un…