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title: "BC Conservatives release costed platform, projecting $10.8B deficit by 2030"
description: "The Conservative Party of BC released its 71-page costed platform on October 18, projecting $2.6 billion in new revenue over three years and a deficit of $10.8 billion by 2030."
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last_updated: "2026-10-19T04:34:35.290Z"
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The Conservative Party of BC released its full costed platform on October 18, 2026, days after advance voting opened and less than a week before the October 24 general election. CTV News reported the release, citing the Canadian Press.

The party says its platform will generate $2.6 billion in new revenue over three years and bring the provincial deficit to $10.8 billion by 2030.

## What the platform projects

The $2.6 billion revenue figure rests on an economic growth assumption. The 71-page document says that if BC's GDP grows by 2.5 per cent in 2027, 2.8 per cent in 2028, and 3.2 per cent in 2029, the province would collect $2.62 billion more than what the NDP's own forecast projects. Those numbers are the party's own projections.

On the spending side, the platform proposes a freeze on outside hiring, cuts to government consulting contracts, and a review of spending across multiple ministries. The party says the core review would identify about $1.8 billion in savings over four years. The hiring freeze combined with natural staff turnover outside front-line services, the party says, would add another $2 billion in savings over the same period.

The party describes the approach as restraint, not cuts to services. The platform states that reductions would come from outside front-line roles.

## What the NDP says

The BC NDP disputed the figures in a separate statement. The party says it calculated the cost of Doerkson's promises during the campaign, including the income tax cuts and the removal of PST from Canadian alcohol and other items, and found they would reduce provincial revenues by more than $4.3 billion a year. The NDP says those commitments would raise the deficit by 33 per cent rather than lower it.

The two sides are working from different baselines: the Conservatives say their platform as a whole would produce restraint, while the NDP is counting the cost of individual promises made during the campaign.

## What voters can do

Advance voting runs until October 21, 2026 at locations across BC. General voting day is October 24. You can find your voting place and check registration details through Elections BC. The candidates and party platforms for the provincial election are listed at [/bc/provincial-2026](/bc/provincial-2026).

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