{"id":700551,"date":"2026-05-29T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700551\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:41:09","slug":"b-c-residents-perception-of-the-economy-shows-political-divide-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700551\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. residents&#8217; perception of the economy shows political divide | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey suggests that British Columbians political leanings might influence how they view the state of B.C.\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n<p>Research Co. recently conducted an online survey, polling 801 adults between May 12 and May 14, to ask them about their perception of the state of both their personal finances and provincial finances.<\/p>\n<p>While 62 per cent of British Columbians rated the province\u2019s economic conditions as \u201cbad\u201d or \u201cvery bad,\u201d there was a higher positive perception among people who voted for the NDP (43 per cent) and the BC Green Party (47 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, only 17 per cent of those who voted for the Conservative Party had positive perceptions of B.C.\u2019s economic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also asked respondents about how they would deal with the provincial government\u2019s forecasted <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/bc-government-2026-budget-deficit-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$13.3 billion deficit<\/a>. It listed a number of options people could select, allowing them to pick only one option.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-five per cent of British Columbians suggested cutting programs, 33 per cent said raising taxes, and 21 per cent weren\u2019t sure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a significant political divide when British Columbians ponder the budget deficit,\u201d said Mario Canseco, president of Research Co, in a release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost half of those who voted for the New Democrats in 2024 (46 per cent) would raise taxes, while more than two-thirds of those who supported the BC Conservatives (68 per cent) would cut programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a significant proportion of B.C. residents had a bleak outlook on the future economic conditions of the province, with 41 per cent reporting that they expect economic conditions to decline in the next six months. Thirty-eight per cent said they don\u2019t expect it to change, and 14 per cent said they think there will be an improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Over 60 per cent blamed B.C.\u2019s economic setbacks on Donald Trump being the president of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/bc-economy-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deloitte<\/a> published in April of this year, this perception is correct: the province\u2019s forestry sector is still dealing with the impact of U.S. tariffs, with B.C. forestry operations cutting production and even permanently closing mills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new survey suggests that British Columbians political leanings might influence how they view the state of B.C.\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-700551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}