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Here’s a look at the 2024 СÀ¶ÊÓƵ budget, by the numbers

VICTORIA — British Columbia Finance Minister Katrine Conroy has delivered an election-year budget that includes benefits for families and businesses as well as an increased deficit. Here are some of its key numbers and estimates: $7.
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Finance Minister Katrine Conroy tables the budget in the legislative assembly in Victoria on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

VICTORIA — British Columbia Finance Minister Katrine Conroy has delivered an election-year budget that includes benefits for families and businesses as well as an increased deficit. Here are some of its key numbers and estimates:

$7.9 billion: 2024/2025 deficit

34 per cent: Deficit increase

0.8 per cent: 2024 real GDP growth

$445: Average СÀ¶ÊÓƵ Family Benefit bonus

$270 million: Three-year Increase in cancer spending

$68 million: Cost of providing free in-vitro fertilization over three years

$1 million: New payroll threshold for Employers Health Tax, up from $500,000

50,490: Record number of housing starts in 2023

10,000: Jobs per year over the next decade to boost the electricity grid

$123 billion: Total provincial debt

89 per cent: Increase in three-year taxpayer-funded capital spending, versus previous three years

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 22, 2024.

The Canadian Press

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