During a press conference in Ottawa on Monday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre proposed to scrap the “insane” federal sales tax on new build housing, claiming that this will save the government more than $8 billion annually, while helping to lower mortgage costs and speed up homebuilding.
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