According to a statement from the federal finance department on Wednesday, “the federal government will take any necessary steps to ensure that the [HST] rate increase does not come into effect on January 1, 2016.” [CBC]
That came out of the first meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier-designate Dwight Ball.
Ball wrote two federal cabinet ministers last week asking them to do what they needed to do in order to halt the two percent increase in the harmonized sales tax included in the provincial Conservatives’ spring budget. Ball promised last spring to roll back the rate hike.
He issued a news release about his letter a couple of days before he met with Trudeau. Local media covered it.
But what would have to happen in order to halt the hike?
Good question.
