Making a fortune in B.C., spending the money in AlbertaBritish Columbia Energy Minister Richard Neufeld estimates province has lost 45,000 petroleum jobs in past decade; Alberta offers lowest income taxes and no sales tax Gary Park PNA Canadian Correspondent
The rich get richer and British Columbia is trying to figure out why. Once Canada’s wealthiest province, British Columbia is now left with the oil and gas industry as its main hope to reverse an economic tailspin that threatens to leave it with a record C$4.4 billion budget deficit in 2002-03.
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