In Edmonton, Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that his government will eliminate the GST on all new homes under $1 million for first-time homebuyers. The prime minister also highlights another announcement he made earlier the day, committing $187 million to help Jasper rebuild after the 2024 wildfires. Responding to questions from reporters, Carney comments on his meeting earlier in the day with Alberta Danielle Smith and is asked about his commitment to building new pipelines to get energy to new markets. The prime minister is also a faces questions on the impact of U.S. tariffs on Alberta’s energy sector. (March 20, 2025)

First time home buyers will not be charged GST (5%) when buying a home, as long as the place they’re buying costs less than $1M. This means that people buying a home for the first time will save up to $50k on their purchase.

Edit: Note, GST is mostly only charged when buying newly built homes, so this won’t have any effect for people buying used homes.

  • kandoh@reddthat.com
    16·
    21 hours ago

    Need to do what Japan did and offload zoning from the provincial governments to the federal.

    Only way to stop the NIMBYs and corruption.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksOP
      5·
      17 hours ago

      It’s not like higher tiers of government are necessarily less corrupt.

      The idea I like is to tax NIMBYs. Have an auction where the “prize” is immunity from new housing for say 5 years, and the price is the property tax you pay. If you want to prevent the construction of denser housing in your neighbourhood, you need to outbid all the other neighbourhoods that also want to avoid it. Any neighbourhood that drops out of the auction pays no additional property tax.

      That way right neighbourhoods of NIMBYs basically pay the rest of the city for the privilege of not having things built in their backyards.