Today (Saturday, Oct. 24) is voting day in B.C. Vote for candidates who will fix the economy, back all of our construction professionals and companies, and get B.C. building again. Polls close at 8 p.m. Go vote!

60,000 jobs gone in BC since January. Companies that turned down work two years ago are laying people off now. ICBA president Chris Gardner joins Coffee & Construction to talk what tomorrow's vote means for the people who build. na3.hubs.ly/y0GRL-0

Tomorrow, B.C. decides. It’s easy to forget, but B.C. used to lead this country. For more than 20 years, our economy grew at least as fast as Canada’s. We built the homes, mines, ports and bridges that powered the West. Nothing about B.C. has changed. We still have the resources, the Pacific ports, the skilled trades and the people. What we’re missing is a government that lets us build. None of this decline was inevitable, and none of it has to last. On October 24, vote for a government that will get B.C. building again. #BCpoli #BCElection #BuildingBCRight

New Training Thursday: Jordan Bateman & Kerry Vital talk jobsite bullying and the law with Paul Pelletier. Then take his 4-hour Respect on Site course. Nov. 5, live online, 4 CPD points, $300 for ICBA members. icbatraining.arlo.co/w/cours…

If your family ran its budget like David Eby, you’d be in serious trouble. Under Eby, government spending has jumped 22%. Revenue is up just 4.6%. Spending is growing nearly 5 times faster than the money coming in. And there’s no plan to fix it. B.C. is one of only two provinces in Canada with no plan to balance its budget. When a family spends like that, it ends up buried in debt. When a government does it, you and your family still pay the price. Eby runs up the bill, and you get stuck with higher taxes, fewer services, or both. On October 24, vote for a government that will get B.C.’s finances back on track. #BCpoli #BCElection #BuildingBCRight

Under the B.C. NDP: 📈 Government jobs: UP 45% 📉 Private-sector jobs: UP just 3% 🚨 Youth employment: DOWN 30,000 since 2019 Government payrolls are booming. The private sector is flatlining. Young British Columbians are paying the price. How is that economic success? Jock Finlayson and Ken Peacock break it down at 🔗 na3.hubs.ly/y0GSt00

Three in four Albertans voted to stay. Every Calgary and Edmonton riding above 75%. One major stormcloud gone. Certainty is returning to the Canadian economy. More on today's Coffee & Construciton with @jordanbateman

Today is the last day of advance voting. Before you vote, check David Eby’s report card. - Economy: B.C. grew slower than the rest of Canada in 2024, for the first time in over 20 years. - Your slice: your share of B.C.’s economy shrank 1.7% in 2024. - Construction: zero growth since 2022. - Housing: home building has fallen six of the last seven years. - Debt: about $100,000 owed for every family of four. - Interest: $14 million a day, just to pay the interest. - Credit rating: four downgrades in four years. Seven subjects, seven failing grades. B.C. can’t afford to give him another mandate. Vote at an advance voting place today, or on Election Day, October 24. Vote for a government that will get B.C. building again. #BCpoli #BCElection #BuildingBCRight

Ask a 25-year-old apprentice in B.C. about buying a home or starting a company here. Then ask who made it that hard. Oct. 24. Vote for change. Vote to send David Eby packing - not our apprentices. #TaxedAndTired

Permits that take years. A deficit with no end date. Homebuilding in collapse. Skilled workers leaving for Alberta. We've heard a lot of announcements and excuses from David Eby and the NDP. We haven't heard a plan. Vote for one Oct. 24. #TaxedAndTired

The NDP has taxed payroll, fuel, equipment, land, homes, security and vacancy — and still ran up a $13.8 billion deficit. There's nothing left to tax. There's only change. Oct. 24. Vote for change. Vote to defeat David Eby. #TaxedAndTired #bcpoli

B.C.'s builders are taxed and tired. Employer health tax, housing taxes, higher income tax, new PST on engineers, architects and security, WorkSafeBC premiums and expensive red tape, fees — and the deficit still grows. Our industry, and our people, are being nickel-and-dimed to death. And all of it adds up to a massive bill. Oct. 24. Vote for change. Vote to defeat David Eby. #TaxedAndTired #bcpoli

A statement by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson on the 2026 Conservative Party of B.C. platform and costing: "The costed Conservative platform looks reasonable. It is a balanced plan, recognizing that there is much that affects the B.C. economy which is beyond the government’s control.     "The Conservatives intend to take a gradualist approach to deficit reduction, which makes sense given the depth of the fiscal hole Premier Eby has dug and the fragile state of the economy. An important element of fiscal strategy under a new government will be kick-starting the private sector, which has been languishing over the past several years while the broad public sector has continued to expand. The private sector accounts for at least three quarters of all economic activity – including employment – in British Columbia; it also provides the exports and drives the innovation on which living standards partly depend. Under the NDP, the priority has been increasing the size and reach of the public sector, even as large parts of the business community have been struggling or in outright decline.    "A healthier business climate and a stronger private sector economy will help to address B.C.’s difficult fiscal situation by bolstering economic growth and expanding the tax base."

The people who approve your projects just changed. Vancouver: mayor/council shift left. Surrey: McCallum comeback II. Langley: 2 new mayors. PG. Richmond. Delta. New West. Coquitlam. New. New. New. What it means for your next DCC bill and your next permit — today’s show.

Are you better off than you were in 2022? By the numbers, B.C. isn’t. Think of B.C.’s economy as a pie shared by everyone who lives here. In 2024, under David Eby, everyone’s slice got 1.7% smaller, a bigger drop than Canada’s. It still hasn’t grown back to where it was when he took over. A smaller slice means: • Smaller raises on your paycheque. • Fewer good jobs. • Less money for the hospitals and schools we all count on. Now Eby wants voters to keep him on as premier. If this is his idea of a job well done, B.C. can’t afford to give him another mandate. On October 24, vote for a government that will get B.C.’s economy growing again. #BCpoli #BCElection #BuildingBCRight

David Eby made building homes his top promise. Three years later, B.C.’s construction industry has grown by exactly zero. It didn’t slow down. It just stopped growing. Zero growth means new homes that never got built. It means an apprentice who can’t get the hours to finish her ticket, and a framer who packed up his truck for Alberta. All while rents have skyrocketed. And it’s getting worse. Private investment in new buildings is falling again this year. On October 24, vote for a government that will get B.C. building again. #BCpoli #BCElection #BuildingBCRight