Finance Minister Mike De Jong: Liberal Government

Liberal government: Finance Ministry data released Wednesday as part of the Liberal government's November second quarterly financial report show a job contraction of 0.1 per cent -- totalling 2,600 fewer jobs -- over the same period last year, according to CTV. Clark's jobs plan, launched in the fall of 2011, was her government's major push to stimulate job creation in B.C., and it included goals to strengthen infrastructure to get goods to markets and expand B.C. markets and services, especially in Asia and VICTORIA -- Job growth in British Columbia has stalled, but it's too early to call Premier Christy Clark's highly-touted jobs plan a bust, Finance Minister Mike de Jong said Wednesday. "We set more robust targets than what we achieved through 2013," de Jong said at a news conference at the B.C. legislature. "That's why I'm not hesitant to tell you our objectives are and remain to grow jobs, grow the economy and the numbers you see for 2013, so far, fall short of where we'd like to be." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.