text: When you come back down to Earth you might want to check the facts about the NDP's economic performance compared to that of the BC Liberals. The NDP grew the GDP by 2.72% compared to the BC Liberals 2.36%. Job creation under the NDP was 2.17% and 1.58% under the BC Liberals. 
  
  When the Social Credit left office in 1991, the provincial debt was $20 billion. When the NDP stepped down in 2001, they left a $1.2 billion surplus (no "ballooning deficits") and a debt load of $33.8 billion (an increase of $13.8 billion). 
  
  Under Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark the provincial debt grew $66.7 billion, plus an additional $101.1 billion in contractual obligations for a total of $167.7 billion. With Christy Clark's Site-C white elephant, the provincial debt will grow by $billions more.  Our great-grandchildren will be paying off the BC Liberal debt for much of their adult lives (with nothing to show for it).