Michael Smyth

Liberals’ message may wear thin if B.C. economy doesn’t improve

As the Liberals basked in the glow of their second consecutive balanced budget Wednesday — and the opposition NDP did their best to poke holes in it — Finance Minister Mike de Jong couldn’t resist gloating. It was the New Democrats, after all, who insisted de Jong’s first balancing act last year was a sham — a fudge-it budget that would be revealed as a fraud after the May election.