Our plan is working for BC Families

Lower Taxes * More Jobs * More Opportunities

• Leading the nation in job creation with over 400,000 new jobs created since December 2001
• The lowest unemployment in B.C. since 1981
• Eliminated provincial income taxes for all British Columbians earning under $15,500 per year – helping 330,000 people
• Reduced or eliminated provincial income taxes this year for 730,000 people with incomes under $26,000 per year
• Lowest provincial income taxes in Canada for all lower and middle income levels
• Reduced prescription costs for 280,000 lower income British Columbians through Fair PharmaCare – 82% of all registered users now pay less or nothing at all
• Reduced or eliminated Medical Services Plan premiums for 290,000 lower income British Columbians since 2001
• $76 million to expand universal hearing, sight and dental testing for every child in B.C. under age six
• $150 million more this year for B.C.’s public schools – the single largest increase in a decade
• 25,000 new post-secondary spaces in addition to the nearly 6,000 spaces added since 2001
• Record reduction of $1.7 billion in provincial debt