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The British Columbia government is set to table the provincial budget later today.

With a projected deficit of $11.2 billion for this fiscal year, Premier David Eby says the government is “facing significant budget pressures” as it looks to find financial sustainability.

�鶹��Ƶexperts are available to give their insight on the budget, political backdrop and potential labour issues.

ANDREY PAVLOV, professor, finance
apavlov@sfu.ca 
Expertise: real estate markets, housing affordability, B.C. and Canadian economy, interest rates, inflation.

DAVID FREEMAN, professor, economics
david_freeman@sfu.ca
Expertise: Behavioural economics — the influence of emotions, social pressure and bias in economic decision-making.

KENDRA STRAUSS, professor and director, Labour Studies, co-director, SSHRC Partnership Understanding Precarity in BC  
kendra_strauss@sfu.ca
Expertise:  Labour issues and labour migration/immigration, multi-dimensional precarity, feminist political economy, unfree labour, gender and work, precarious employment, care work.

ALI BHAGAT, assistant professor, director of the minor in public policy, School of Public Policy
ali_bhagat@sfu.ca
Expertise: Political economy, migration, labour, social policy, equity. 

NICOLAS KENNY, professor, history
nicolas_kenny@sfu.ca
Expertise: Canadian political history, B.C. politics, Quebec politics. Speaks French.

SANJAY JERAM, senior lecturer, political science (available from Feb 20)
604.445.6790 | sjeram@sfu.ca 
Expertise: Public opinion, ideologies, provincial political cultures, electoral strategy, immigration and diversity issues.