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I can’t think of a policy more destructive for the development industry than this. Forced liquidations into an already illiquid market.
Today in Burnaby I committed to turning more empty condos into homes people can afford.
Our housing plan is working. Home prices are falling faster in B.C. than anywhere else in Canada, rents have dropped 26 months in a row, and the speculation and vacancy tax has turned 20,000 empty units into homes. But too many finished condos are still sitting empty or unsold.
So we'll raise the speculation and vacancy tax by one point and bring in a new Unsold Condo Tax on finished condos left empty for more than a year, climbing every year they sit. That could unlock up to 5,000 homes for British Columbians.
The conservative parties have opposed nearly every measure we've taken on housing. They'd rip up the plan and hand the market back to the speculators.
With Trump's trade war driving up costs, we have to keep pushing yours down. That's how we build B.C. strong. 🇨🇦
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In his event, @Dave_Eby says only he can "stand up to developers" and told these "wealthy developers" no to eliminating foreign buyer tax this year.
True. But he also told them he was "extremely concerned" about falling housing starts and wanted to help them keep building too.
NEW - @Dave_Eby says a re-elected NDP gov would create a new Unsold Condo Tax on finished condos left empty for more than a year. Starting at 2 per cent, increasing 1% every year left vacant.
Also increase the speculation tax a 1% on both Cdn and foreign owners.
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NEW - @Dave_Eby newly-named chief of staff, @AndrewMercierBC, who just started the job like a couple of weeks ago, is now the party's candidate for Langley-Willowbrook.
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NEW - @Dave_Eby says a re-elected NDP gov would create a new Unsold Condo Tax on finished condos left empty for more than a year. Starting at 2 per cent, increasing 1% every year left vacant.
Also increase the speculation tax a 1% on both Cdn and foreign owners.
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Today's show, in which I discover I have a 'censor' button on my podcast device and begin to use it liberally and without prejudice on @jtferrier
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"It was their decision to remove Kerry-Lynne Findlay on Sunday, not very long ago, knowing an election was coming," says @NikiSharma2, justifying her attack on @LDoerkson's interim status.
Tries to make it sound like it was a scheduled elxn, not a snap writ drop 2 years early.
.@NikiSharma2 says @Conservative_BC "need to be clear" about their constitution, specifically pg 10, on how they would handle @LDoerkson should he defeat the NDP and become premier and whether it would require a leadership vote with 2/3 vote of membership and... (thud)
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.@NikiSharma2 says @Conservative_BC "need to be clear" about their constitution, specifically pg 10, on how they would handle @LDoerkson should he defeat the NDP and become premier and whether it would require a leadership vote with 2/3 vote of membership and... (thud)
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This press conference has 2017 Mike de Jong vibes, where as finance minister he tried to mid-elxn attack @bcndp platform on obscure financial grounds and got shellacked for it for desperation.
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.@NikiSharma2 says she wouldn't be asking these Qs if the Conservatives didn't have an interim leader.
Which is a great irony considering they only have an interim leader because the @bcndp called a snap election to take advantage of that very fact.
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Will be interesting to hear how @NikiSharma2 attacks @Conservative_BC at a 9am press conference for its internal leadership selection process of @LDoerkson, coming from a @bcndp that had to creatively DQ @AnjaliApp to save @Dave_Eby's leadership bid.
I anticipate utter nonsense.
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Rob Shaw retweeted
My latest, on the mess in BC, and how we got here theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Someone call the "Freedom Hotline" on Yuri. He's not fighting for freedom anymore.
CPBC NOT running Fulmer in WVSTS and instead has an Indigenous woman in his stead. Will be a fight between her and Valeriote, who will have the saving grace of Jen Ford not running again to help squeeze progressives towards him. But will West Van be energized against Lowan...?
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I have used my thumbs to create another Tikkity Tok video and IG video on the new @angusreidorg poll. Find them here:
tiktok.com/@RobShaw_BC
instagram.com/robshawnews/
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Interviewed @LDoerkson just now. He’s sitting in former MLA Donna Barnett’s kitchen to use her wifi for interviews on his way to deliver truck full of items to Clinton food bank.
Said he’s “appalled” Eby keeps using wildfire metaphors when snap elxn has shut down services for ppl
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Should point out I’ve interviewed @LDoerkson twice now this week — which is two times more than I ever interviewed @KerryLynneFindl in four months thanks to the blacklist instituted by her genius comms wizard.
Quite a shift inside @Conservative_BC after the KLF disaster.
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To put this a different way — these numbers take us back more towards where voters were at in June, which was a 10pt lead for @Conservative_BC over @bcndp due to public anger over gov performance on a variety of issues, though now also early elxn.
Trump a non-entity in polling.
NEW - @angusreidorg poll shows "ballot backlash" on @bcndp for going to snap elxn early.
• 43% @Conservative_BC (+6)
• 35% @bcndp (-6)
• 12% @BCGreens (-1)
• 10% other (+1)
angusreid.org/ballot-backlas…
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