Finance Minister Brenda Bailey listens during an announcement about increasing the tax credit for game developers, at Electronic Arts in Burnaby, B.C., on Monday, July 7, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
DDVICTORIA - Here's what people are saying about the 2026 British Columbia budget, which delivers a tax-rate increase, a record deficit and public sector cuts.
"It鈥檚 our time to take a pause on some of the things we want to do, to do the things that we need to do." 鈥 B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey
鈥(This) budget is an assault on seniors, working families and the small businesses that drive our economy.鈥 鈥 B.C. Conservative Party finance critic Peter Milobar
鈥淚t鈥檚 become more difficult to understand this government鈥檚 priorities beyond LNG, and we have concerns with the lack of transparency and accountability in this years鈥 service plan. This budget is built on the backs of British Columbians 鈥 and it is crushing them.鈥 鈥 BC Green Party finance critic Rob Botterell
鈥淎ny cut to front line services, any cut to unionized employees, that provide critical services to British Columbians, is not just going to hurt people that need those services right now, it is also going to hurt the economy.鈥 鈥 BC General Employees' Union president Paul Finch
鈥淭hey definitely seemed to manage to piss off everybody.鈥 鈥 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives senior economist Marc Lee
"Despite significant new tax increases, the province's fiscal situation continues on a perilous trajectory, with an eye-popping $80 billion to be added to the debt over the next three years.鈥 鈥 Bridgitte Anderson, president of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade
鈥淭his budget stays the course for public education and provides some consistency. However, we know that kids deserve robust and forward-looking investment in their learning environments.鈥 鈥 BC Teachers鈥 Federation President Carole Gordon
鈥淭he budget lacks a defined strategy to address B.C.鈥檚 struggling post-secondary sector 鈥 a key piece of economic infrastructure in building a stronger and more diverse economy 鈥 amid widespread program cuts and layoffs.鈥 鈥 BC Federation of Labour President Sussanne Skidmore
鈥淚t's going to put pressure on the family caregivers, people who should be in the workforce, who are now caring for that senior. And it's also going to create a situation where the seniors are not getting the kind of care they should be.鈥 鈥 Seniors Advocate Dan Levitt, referring to delays in care-home construction.
鈥淲e've got about $4 billion in the budget in tax increases 鈥 and that's really concerning, because the private sector is already very, very weak." 鈥 Business Council of British Columbia vice-president of policy David Williams
This report by 国产诱惑福利 was first published Feb. 17, 2026.
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