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VICTORIA — NDP Leader Adrian Dix says if he’s elected premier, he’ll consider getting rid of British Columbia’s balanced-budget legislation.

Dix said Thursday he doesn’t like the Liberal government’s budget law, saying it’s better to have the goal of balancing the budget rather than having a law that has to be repealed every time the books are inconveniently in the red.

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“We’ve seen over the past four years it’s kind of a Monty Python sketch,” he said. “You know, we have a balanced-budget law and we never balance the budget.

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“We haven’t had a balanced budget this term, so I’d rather have a balanced budget than balanced-budget laws.”

Dix made his balanced-budget comments to reporters following a speech to municipal politicians at the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention.

The Liberals brought in their balanced-budget legislation in 2001 and amended it in 2009 to permit two deficit budgets. The government delivered balanced budgets between the fiscal years 2004-2005 and 2008-2009.