New Democrat Leader David Eby is making a late appeal to voters to support the party even if they never have before, as the British Columbia election campaign enters it final days.

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Elections BC says about 597,000 people have already voted in four days of advance polling.

Eby stood at the constuction site with a sign in the background parodying anti-NDP political billboards put up outside the home of Vancouver billionaire Chip Wilson during the campaign.

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Eby focused Tuesday on Surrey-South B.C. Conservative candidate Brent Chapman, whose social media posts about Palestinians, residential schools and mass shootings at a Quebec mosque and the Sandy Hook school in the U.S. have surfaced during the campaign.

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Rustad has refused calls to drop Chapman as a candidate.

Eby asked voters B次元官网网址渉ow would you feelB次元官网网址� to wake up on Oct. 20 to a B.C. Conservative government that included B次元官网网址渉atefulB次元官网网址� candidates and policies that he says will be B次元官网网址渄riving up your costs in every possible way.B次元官网网址�

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Rustad has said he would eliminate the provincial carbon tax and exempt up to $3,000 a month in rent or mortgage payments from income taxes, while eliminating the provincial deficit within two terms of government.

The NDP and the Green Party have already released costed platforms that both forecast adding about $2.9 billion to the deficit in their first years.

The Greens say their platform would increase the provinceB次元官网网址檚 deficit by about $1.5 billion in its third year, while the NDP has said theirs would do so by an almost identical amount by 2026-2027.

B.C. budget deficit is projected to be a record $9 billion this year.

Green Leader Sonia Furstenau said Tuesday that Rustad and his Conservatives are B次元官网网址渘ot serious enough to governB次元官网网址� and they B次元官网网址渄o not deserve the kind of support theyB次元官网网址檙e getting right now.B次元官网网址�

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