VICTORIA — Finance Minister Brenda Bailey released a budget update Thursday confirming that Premier David Eby has thrown away the good financial position he inherited from his NDP predecessor, John Horgan.

The proof is evident in a side-by-side comparison between two financial updates: the last one from the Horgan government, delivered Nov. 25, 2022, and the one Bailey delivered this week.

The one from three years ago, covering the first six months of Horgan’s last year in office, showed he left behind a budget surplus of almost $6 billion. Eby’s latest update projects a deficit for the year of $11 billion.

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The $17 billion turnaround in just three years ranks as the most dramatic reversal in the B.C. government bottom line in t

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