The reviews are in

Walter Cordery:

There is another culprit contributing to the coming disaster known as the harmonized sales tax, a $2-billion ripoff of B.C. consumers. And to date Stephen Harper's teflon coating appears to have deflected the controversy surrounding his government's decision to bribe British Columbians with their own money.

Would Gordon Campbell have agreed to merge the provincial sales tax with the goods and services tax and remove exemptions for some items if Ottawa hadn't dangled a $1.6-billion carrot in front of the increasingly cash-starved B.C. government?
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With talk of a fall federal election in the air due to Harper's inability to reform Canada's EI system, federal Tories in both Ontario and British Columbia are growing nervous they will suffer the electorate's wrath concerning the HST. As well they should.