Premier Christy Clark is slamming the NDP's plan to boost healthcare spending by a quarter billion dollars.
The Premier says the NDP "Spend-o-Meter" is spending again.
But what's wrong with more money for youth, mental health care services, home care, and better rural health care?
"Is that the way they are going to find that 2.75 billions that so far they have committed to spend? The only one way they are going to be able to get that is by taking money out of peoples' pockets in the form of higher taxes."
Clark was speaking at the site of a new hospital being build in Courtenay, touting her own plan to double hospice beds by 2020.
NDP leader Adrian Dix says some of this money will not only help seniors stay in their homes longer, it will also keep long-term care patients out of acute care hospital beds--a better use of resources.