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Certain communities remain exempted from the tax, which increases rental availability. Time for change?
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. SHARES Due to a housing shortage on Salt Spring Island, some workers have to commute from Vancouver Island. Some say implementing the speculation and vacancy tax on BC’s Gulf Islands would ease the shortage.
Blake Brown has seen the housing crisis on Salt Spring Island from both sides. And it’s clearly desperate.
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It’s impossible to be both, which they proved conclusively. Debates sometimes turned into harmless pillow fights. And their serious disagreements always prompted “… then why are you supporting them?” Now the remaining two MLAs – leader Sonia Furstenau and Adam Olsen (Saanich North and the Islands) are the distinct minority in a 57-28-2 house. They lost all their balance-of-power clout. But they’ve got the independence to … raise a little hell. Furstenau made a thoughtful, critical opening, and it prompted a subtle sign of her new place in the power structure. She directed a question to Premier John Horgan, but he opted to let a minister handle it.
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