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NEW from ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson:

💰 B.C.’s economy grew 2.4% in 2025. Alberta’s grew 3.3%.
💰 Since 2022: B.C. up 6.7%. Alberta up almost 10%.

One big difference: government drives far more of B.C.’s economy.

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Today, we stop and stand in silence for the Canadians who served, and for those who never came home. We owe them the freedom to live, work and build in peace.

From all of us at ICBA: thank you. We remember.

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The count is done.

64 Conservatives. 27 NDP. 2 Greens.

Ten days to a cabinet. Then the work starts.

Watch our latest Coffee & Construction for more (and lots of Alberta news too)

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Ottawa's budget, by the numbers:

$62.3 billion deficit this year.
$50 billion-plus every year after.
$60 billion in debt interest — more than it sends the provinces for health care.

Watch our latest Coffee & Construction for more:

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One customer 🇺🇸 buys almost every barrel of oil Canada exports. That customer put tariffs on us.

Pacific Link — 1,200 km, a million barrels a day, Alberta to tidewater — is the way out. But this week it picked up ten First Nations court challenges.

Consult. Yes. But Trans Mountain went $5.4B to $34B running consult-sue-repeat.

More on Coffee & Construction 👇

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NDP MP Don Davies told the House union labour is 17% more productive. He wants union-only deals on every federal project.

His evidence? A union-funded “study” of 61 open shop jobs — pipe, valves, plant maintenance. Biggest one: $10 million. Not a single bridge, hospital or school.

The real test is Pattullo: budgeted at $967M, built for $1.6B, three years late.

https://t.co/A3SfdZzxZW

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Roberts Bank Terminal 2: $5.9 billion. 2.4 million more containers a year. 17,000 jobs.

Friday, Ottawa put it on the national-interest list. FID by mid-2027. Open in 2035 — four years sooner than planned.

Let's go. More on today's episode of ICBA Coffee & Construction 👇

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LORNE DOERKSON WINS!!!!

64 seats. 22 ridings flipped. 48% of the vote.

The first Conservative government in BC in 98 years.

Our @jordanbateman breaks it down on a jubilant episode of Coffee & Construction:

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Today (Saturday, Oct. 24) is voting day in B.C. Vote for candidates who will fix the economy, back all of our construction professionals and companies, and get B.C. building again. Polls close at 8 p.m. Go vote!

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60,000 jobs gone in BC since January.

Companies that turned down work two years ago are laying people off now.

ICBA president Chris Gardner joins Coffee & Construction to talk what tomorrow's vote means for the people who build.

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Tomorrow, B.C. decides.

It’s easy to forget, but B.C. used to lead this country. For more than 20 years, our economy grew at least as fast as Canada’s. We built the homes, mines, ports and bridges that powered the West.

Nothing about B.C. has changed. We still have the resources, the Pacific ports, the skilled trades and the people. What we’re missing is a government that lets us build.

None of this decline was inevitable, and none of it has to last.

On October 24, vote for a government that will get B.C. building again.

#BCpoli #BCElection #BuildingBCRight

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New Training Thursday: Jordan Bateman & Kerry Vital talk jobsite bullying and the law with Paul Pelletier.

Then take his 4-hour Respect on Site course. Nov. 5, live online, 4 CPD points, $300 for ICBA members.

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If your family ran its budget like David Eby, you’d be in serious trouble.

Under Eby, government spending has jumped 22%. Revenue is up just 4.6%. Spending is growing nearly 5 times faster than the money coming in.

And there’s no plan to fix it. B.C. is one of only two provinces in Canada with no plan to balance its budget.

When a family spends like that, it ends up buried in debt. When a government does it, you and your family still pay the price.

Eby runs up the bill, and you get stuck with higher taxes, fewer services, or both.

On October 24, vote for a government that will get B.C.’s finances back on track.

#BCpoli #BCElection #BuildingBCRight

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Under the B.C. NDP:

📈 Government jobs: UP 45%
📉 Private-sector jobs: UP just 3%
🚨 Youth employment: DOWN 30,000 since 2019

Government payrolls are booming. The private sector is flatlining.

Young British Columbians are paying the price.

How is that economic success?

Jock Finlayson and Ken Peacock break it down at
🔗 https://t.co/YP0lpMY3bS

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Three in four Albertans voted to stay.

Every Calgary and Edmonton riding above 75%. One major stormcloud gone.

Certainty is returning to the Canadian economy.

More on today's Coffee & Construciton with @jordanbateman

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Today is the last day of advance voting. Before you vote, check David Eby’s report card.

- Economy: B.C. grew slower than the rest of Canada in 2024, for the first time in over 20 years.
- Your slice: your share of B.C.’s economy shrank 1.7% in 2024.
- Construction: zero growth since 2022.
- Housing: home building has fallen six of the last seven years.
- Debt: about $100,000 owed for every family of four.
- Interest: $14 million a day, just to pay the interest.
- Credit rating: four downgrades in four years.

Seven subjects, seven failing grades. B.C. can’t afford to give him another mandate.

Vote at an advance voting place today, or on Election Day, October 24. Vote for a government that will get B.C. building again.

#BCpoli #BCElection #BuildingBCRight

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Ask a 25-year-old apprentice in B.C. about buying a home or starting a company here. Then ask who made it that hard.

Oct. 24. Vote for change. Vote to send David Eby packing - not our apprentices. #TaxedAndTired

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“A fiscal miss of this magnitude warrants a clear explanation of what changed and, more importantly, what the government intends to do differently in future. The latest platform provides neither.”

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“Counting revenues from major project investments already in train as a fiscal benefit attributable to the NDP platform is slippery accounting.”

That’s the kindest thing ICBA’s Jock Finlayson & Ken Peacock have to say about Eby’s “costed” platform. It gets worse.

https://t.co/vj7jbQzXDD

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“The NDP’s platform promises to reduce the deficit but offers little explanation of how that will happen beyond imposing higher taxes on a small but important slice of the population — a strategy that will discourage business investment and make it all but impossible to attract highly skilled people to B.C.”