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Bev54

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2. A lot of funding comes from gas tax within the area (making gas prices quite high) and like
Mon Jul 29, 2024, 10:53 AM
Jul 2024

so many other transportation areas such as BC ferries and others such as hospitals they become top heavy with administration with highly paid administrators take a lot of the funding.
Edit to add:
That is one of the reasons Trudeau pissed off some of the premiers when he agreed to 6% increase in federal funding in healthcare for the province only if it went directly to the care and help for drug addiction and none to administration. It was the right decision and I applaud him for that.

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