Finance Minister Mike de Jong says it's hard to balance the B.C. budget, so he decides to sell off public assets - again. "Forced sales" are always at a disadvantage to the seller.

Yes, it's tough to balance the budget when you don't tax sufficiently those who skim off the most from B.C. resources and take in most of B.C.'s personal and corporate wealth.

It's hard to balance the budget when you "sell" B.C. Rail, a public asset, for a mere billion dollars and then spend the money to foist "smart meters" on B.C. ratepayers. The meter manufacturers and the installer companies got the billion. We lost B.C. Rail.

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