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    British Columbia erhält seit 2021 die fünfte Bonitätsherabstufung von S&P

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    1. cyclinginvancouver on

      British Columbia, the western Canadian province that once boasted a top AAA credit rating, was downgraded by S&P Global Ratings for the fifth time since 2021 on Thursday.

      “Budgetary imbalances are expected to remain among the highest of all rated non-US local and regional governments beyond the outlook horizon,” S&P said in a statement.

      The downgrade comes weeks after Canada’s third-most populous province released its annual budget, and on the heels of a separate downgrade from Moody’s Ratings last month. Before its string of rating cuts, BC held an AAA rating with S&P for 14 years.

      British Columbia’s fiscal trajectory means “the province’s debt burden is also rising at a fast pace, placing it, on a per operating revenue basis, at 255%,” S&P said. “This is among the highest for Canadian provinces by fiscal 2029.”

      As for the broader economy, BC’s output will be subdued thanks to lower immigration and trade uncertainty, S&P added.

    3. ProudVancouverLL on

      Lol and users here got really REALLY upset when I said Eby was one of the worst premier in modern times

    4. Westsider111 on

      David Eby about to become the biggest promoter of LNG, oil pipelines and mining projects.

    5. gwelfguy on

      The article doesn’t actually say what it’s been downgraded to, so you have to go digging. On April 2, it was downgraded from A+ to A.

    6. PrestondeTipp on

      Eby is my Premier.

      I’m sympathetic to a lot of his policies but man, he’s mishandled a lot of the files and is hanging on by a seat.

      One more snafu (say, a pipeline many of his environmental-left MPs dislikes) and we may have an election.

    9. Amtoj on

      That’s unfortunate. I had the impression BC was looking good because their housing policies were genuinely the only ones among the provinces actually making a dent in the issue. Multiplexes being legalized across every city, for example.

      How’s it looking on the financial file? Some projects gone awry?

    10. Smooth_Is-Fast on

      if the goal is to make the land less attractive to indigenous Eby may be able to keep a little piece of it.

    12. hebrewchucknorris on

      The astro turfing in this thread is next level. BC has massive capex on public infrastructure that has been neglected for decades, notably 5 hospitals, 2 skytrain lines and a bridge replacement. That doesn’t include the billions on forest fires every year, and trying to support most of Canada’s homeless as they head west for more favorable weather.

      I don’t give 2 shits about the credit rating when our AAA rating was a result of not building anything.

    13. No_Equal9312 on

      This is what happens when you have a socialist government accompanied by mass immigration.

      The only way out is massive cuts to government spending. Taxes are already too high.

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