Christy Clark never met a millionaire she didn’t like. And that goes double for their little darlings.

Clark showed her love for private schools on the last day of the most recent sitting of the legislature by tabling legislation permanently exempting them from municipal property taxes, which have not historically been collected. This while the Vancouver School Board has to go into hock to the tune of $1.6 million to build a needed downtown school.

Take the St. George’s senior campus (the junior school is nearby), an exclusive high school for 700 boys located in Vancouver’s affluent Dunbar neighbourhood. The premier’s son attends “Saints", as it’s known to aficionados of the local peerage. Annual tuition ranges from $22,000 for local boys to $58,000 for international boarding students. That adds up to a minimum $25 million in tuition revenue, over and above applicable provincial subsidies.

St. George's vast lands sit next to some of the most valuable land in North America. A comparably-sized parcel of single-family homes has assessed land values of over $150 million.