As the B.C. government presents its latest budget and awaits a new premier to set the direction of government, here are two very divergent views of the direction the province's finances are headed.
Gregory Thomas, B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, points to another operating deficit, with $440 million in spending overruns, much of it in health care.
"Spending grew 4.3
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