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No New Taxes: BC Conservative Leader Brings Fiscal Message to Surrey Campaign Stop
Doerkson said a future Conservative government would keep taxes flat and accused the NDP of raising income taxes and freezing brackets through 2030.
- On Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026, Conservative Interim Leader Lorne Doerkson campaigned in Surrey's Bridgeview Park, promising a future Conservative government would not introduce new taxes and calling for a return to "go back to basics."
- The Conservative Party claims British Columbians suffer from "one tax grab after another," citing the NDP's raising of the lowest income tax rate to 5.6 per cent from 5.06 per cent and freezing tax brackets through 2030.
- Targeting the province's $13.8 billion projected deficit, Conservatives criticized the NDP for announcing a 7% Provincial Sales Tax expansion, which the government paused on the eve of the election.
- British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby promised on Friday to impose new taxes on unsold condominiums and raise the existing speculation and vacancy tax if his party returns to power.
- Recent polling suggests 43 per cent of decided voters support the Conservatives as the provincial snap election, called last Tuesday, approaches the Oct. 24 vote.
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BC Conservative Party pledges 'no new taxes'
BC Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson on Sunday pledged that his new government will never raise taxes on British Columbians. He said that after nearly a decade of the NDP, families across the province have been squeezed as the NDP takes more and more out of their pockets to fund a government that has spent more […]
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Total News Sources43
Leaning Left30Leaning Right0Center10Last UpdatedBias Distribution75% Left
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- 75% of the sources lean Left
75% Left
L 75%
C 25%
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