The British Columbia government has posted a surplus of more than double what was predicted in the last provincial budget in its final public accounting of the year.
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The bottom line was helped along by $468 million in property transfer tax revenues and Finance Minister Mike de Jong says housing sales also helped provincial growth at three per cent.
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