{"id":97979,"date":"2017-04-11T04:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T08:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=97979"},"modified":"2017-04-11T04:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T08:51:42","slug":"parties-promise-jobs-public-investments-at-dawn-of-b-c-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/11\/parties-promise-jobs-public-investments-at-dawn-of-b-c-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Parties promise jobs, public investments at dawn of B.C. election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_97117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97117\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97117\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC.jpg\" alt=\"British Columbians have faced an onslaught of government announcements, party ads and political finger pointing over the last few months. (Photo by No real name given [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)])\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British Columbians have faced an onslaught of government announcements, party ads and political finger pointing over the last few months. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AEnglish_Bay%2C_Vancouver%2C_BC.jpg\">No real name given [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>VANCOUVER \u2014 British Columbians have faced an onslaught of government announcements, party ads and political finger pointing over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>It was all a prelude to the provincial election campaign, which will officially begin today when Liberal Leader Christy Clark asks the lieutenant governor to dissolve her government.<\/p>\n<p>Which party can generate the most jobs appears to be an early campaign theme for the May 9 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Clark unveiled her party&#8217;s platform yesterday, promising to freeze income taxes, deliver balance budgets and create jobs in the technology and resource sectors.<\/p>\n<p>New Democrat Leader John Horgan has also offered voters a peek at his platform, saying his party will create jobs in every corner of the province by making public investments to attract more private-sector investment.<\/p>\n<p>The Greens captured a single seat in the legislature last election, but Leader Andrew Weaver is predicting a breakthrough for his party when British Columbians head to the polls in four weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 British Columbians have faced an onslaught of government announcements, party ads and political finger pointing over the last &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[17844,17843],"class_list":["post-97979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-b-c-election-campaign","tag-british-columbians","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}