Statistics Canada says a decline in BC's inflation rate last month is due to a decrease in the cost of food purchase from restaurants, and a decrease in shelter costs.
Consumer prices in BC went down 0.6% compared to May last year.
Analyst Amanda Wright.
"There is on the up side, there's always things that go up as well. On the increase, food purchase from stores rose 1.5% year over year in May, and this was led by increases in prices for fresh vegetables. So, you do have components increasing as well in British Columbia."
Wright says there was a 0.8% decline in April.
She says in April, some products would have been impacted by the elimination of the HST.