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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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Global News broke the news in Toronto, Canada on Sunday, September 27, 2026.
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