• remove GST on new rental housing construction
  • cities must end exclusionary zoning to access housing accelerator fund
  • grocery stores must have a plan to control prices by thanksgiving or face new taxes
  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
    5·
    1 year ago

    “Justin Trudeau promised to do this eight years ago. Six years ago he said ‘just kidding, promise broken,’ and now this morning, just as he got wind this was going to be in my bill, he flip-flopped again,” he said.

    The GST change announced on Thursday was part of the Liberal party’s election platform in 2015, but the Liberal government abandoned that policy in 2017, saying there were better ways to increase rental construction.

    Classic. Lol

    The federal government also announced it will bring forward legislation to empower the Competition Bureau to ensure that corporate mergers and acquisitions do not have an adverse effect on the affordability of goods and services.

    Haha, good one!

    • Pxtl@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Well, to be fair, the Competition Bureau tried to block the Rogers/Shaw merger, but the court said no (and then awarded Rogers/Shaw millions in damages from the Bureau). If the Fed can give the Bureau more power instead of being overridden by a Harper-appointed judge, I call that a win.

      • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        I would too, but I don’t believe for a second he’s actually going to follow through with any bite.