The problem with this argument is that the BC Liberals have not been running balanced budgets. Over the past decade the BC Auditor general(s) has reported that the BC Liberals have not followed Canadian normally accepted accounting practices. This has allowed massive debt to accumulate - they simply don't show it on the books.

An example - need some highway infrastructure? Hire some foreign Private Public Partners. Get them to borrow the money at a much higher rate. Let them build the highway at a 30% higher cost than a public project. Then pay them out over a 35 year period. That, my friend, is debt. The BC taxpayers owe billions to the P3 gangs but that debt does not appear on the books - only the cost for the current year is shown.

They have many other schemes in play to hide debt.

BC is in a very deep financial hole with only half the infrastructure dollar value to show for the debt. But hey - the BC Liberals buddies got rich and that is all that matters to the Liberals.