B.C. too quick to cheer Harper budget
Times Colonist (Victoria)
May 5, 2006
Comment, By Paul Willcocks
EXCERPT:

Finance Minister Carole Taylor was quick to offer enthusiastic support for the federal budget.

It's a little hard to see why...

But so far this looks mostly like an adequate budget for B.C. There are few reasons for cheerleading, beyond the understandable desire to keep on the good side of the new Conservative government.

Footnote: James seized on the expected lack of child-care funding as a significant problem. The Conservatives' decision to cancel the federal-provincial child-care deal in favour of a $1,200 child allowance was expected, but it leaves B.C. without a clear plan for needed improvements to child care. The province had built its plan around funding promised in the child-care deal signed by the Martin government.