By Marcy Nicholson As economists met British Columbia’s Finance Minister Brenda Bailey around a Vancouver hotel conference table and online on Friday, one announced news fresh to hand, sending a ripple through the group as they discussed the fate of the province’s economy. He told the meeting of the Economic Forecast Council for B.C. that a report had emerged out of Washington — U.S. President Donald Trump’s promised 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports were said to be delayed by a month to March 1. But before Friday’s meeting even ended, it was told a new report had scotched that hope, and Trump was proceeding with the tariffs on Saturday after all, as originally threatened. The conflicting reports underscore what Premier David Eby would call the “chaos and confusion”…
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