BC’s Tech Economy Is Too Big to Ignore

B.C. can’t build its future on an outdated economic story

BC Tech Association CEO Jill Tipping argues B.C. must update economic policy for a tech sector now central to GDP, jobs, wages, AI competition and tariff-era economic sovereignty.

BC’s Tech Economy Is Too Big to Ignore

Five years ago, BC Tech published ‘A New Economic Narrative for BC’. The report provided a rigorous review of the data on BC’s economy and demonstrated that BC’s economy isn’t what we tell ourselves it is. We showed the massive shift that had taken place over three decades as BC became a knowledge and service-driven economy. And we shone a light on the fact that 21 years into the 21st century our economic narrative remained grounded in the 20th …