Economic survival for who? BC has the worst child poverty rate in Canada. The housing market in Vancouver makes even six-figure earners house poor. (In fact, a significant chunk of BC's so-called "economic development" in the last decade has been in construction for the overheated housing market.) And so on. 
Newsflash, Roddie .. people are learning that trickle-down economics is a scam .. don't hope for a return to neocon fantasy land anytime soon.