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BC Liberal Index - Fall 2009
December 4, 2009
Below is a list of indicators that measure the performance of the BC Liberals in Fall 2009:
- Amount consumers will have to fork over for the HST: $1.9 billion
- Tourism jobs that will be lost due to the HST: 10,000
- Restaurant industry jobs that will be lost due to the HST: 12,000
- Number of HST-free Christmases left: 1, unless we stop the HST
- Number of BC Liberals it would take to vote down the HST: 7
- Cost of the HST for BC schools: almost $40 million
- BC surgeries cancelled this year: between 9,860 and 15, 500
- Funding cut from Parent Advisory Councils on first day of school: $6.7 million
- Number of full-time jobs lost in BC over the last year: 76,900
- Amount BC Ferries CEO David Hahn makes each year: over $1,000,000
- Number of trains BC Rail CEO Kevin Mahoney is paid $494,182 to manage: 0
- Amount BC Liberals spent on advertising for the LiveSmart program before the election: more than $7 million
- Number of months following the election the BC Liberals cancelled LiveSmart: 3
- BC Liberals’ increase to maximum weekly online gambling limit: $120 to $9,999
- Funding cut for gambling prevention programs: 34 percent
- Planned cut to arts funding next year: nearly 85 percent
- Jobs lost in the forest industry since the election: more than 1,500
- Sockeye missing in 2009 from the Fraser River: 9 million
- Escaped Atlantic salmon in 2009 from BC open-net fish farms in 2009: 172,000
- Years in a row the BC Liberals have had the worst record in Canada on child poverty: 6
- Cost of Olympic tickets purchased for BC Liberal MLAs and Crown Corporations: nearly $2.4 million
- Number of Special Olympic athletes that could have been supported for $2.4 million: 7,000
