The Concerned Citizens for British Columbia wants a responsible, free enterprise government and the closest one to that is the B.C. Liberals, the group's founder said at a meeting in Tsawwassen last Thursday.
"We want to make sure British Columbia continues to be an attractive place to invest. Without investment you don't have job development, you don't have business development," said Jim Shepard, the citizens movement's president and CEO who was a guest speaker at a Delta Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Coast Tsawwassen Inn.
Shepard, who left a post as a $1-a-year adviser to Premier Christy Clark to form the movement, is a former Canfor and Finning CEO. His group is supporting the Liberals ahead of the upcoming provincial election.
Shepard, who has been travelling around the province building a mandate, said his group is against overregulation, against new taxes and is looking for sound fiscal management from government.
"We've also got to keep our expenses down, whether it's our business or our household. We know if we don't keep our expenses below our income, that sooner or later we're going to face financial ruin. We expect the same performance from our government in Victoria."
He said his group will launch a campaign next month that will be delivered to "every household in British Columbia" that will run until early April.
He said the group is determined the campaign's message will be the election question.
"It's going to be something like, 'Do you really want to turn responsibility of this economy back over to the NDP?'"
The next provincial election will be held on May 14.
