Poll shows overwhelming opposition to Eby's PST expansion
Carson Binda says David Eby's tax grab will hit seniors, families and small businesses hardest.
Article by Rebel News staff
On last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Carson Binda from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation discussed British Columbia Premier David Eby's upcoming provincial sales tax expansion, calling it a costly blow to ordinary residents.
Binda said that on October 1, Eby's government will expand the PST to cover a wide range of consumer goods and professional services, including cable television, landline telephones, knitting supplies, engineering, architecture, accounting and security services.
He noted the expansion is expected to cost British Columbians $1.5 billion over the next three years, with small businesses likely passing added costs on to consumers.
Binda pointed to security services in particular, noting that charities and community organizations in Vancouver have had to hire private security due to worsening street conditions, and now face higher costs because of the tax change.
He cited a Leger poll showing only 15 per cent of British Columbians support the tax hike, while 66 per cent want it cancelled outright. Among decided respondents, that opposition rises to 82 per cent, holding steady across regions, genders and income levels.
According to the poll, seniors and families with children are among the groups most opposed to the hike, a trend Binda linked to affordability pressures many households are already facing.
Binda also highlighted landline telephones as an example of the tax's uneven impact, suggesting the change disproportionately affects older British Columbians who still rely on the service.
Ezra Levant
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Ezra Levant is the founder and owner of Rebel News and the host of The Ezra Levant Show. He is the author of multiple best-selling books, including Ethical Oil, The Libranos, China Virus, and most recently, Trudeau's Secret Plan.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-09-16 20:43:42 -0400Bruce: B. C. was a sensible province when my parents and I moved there more than 60 years ago. W. A. C. Bennett was premier at the time.
It started going off the rails when it elected the Dave Barrett NDP in 1972, but they were quickly booted out of office in, I recall, 1975. Some degree of sanity had been restored when Bill Bennett took over, though he couldn’t get rid of that dreadful ICBC, which was left over from the Dippers.
“Mini-WAC”, as the latter Bennett was nicknamed, was succeeded by one of his cabinet ministers, Bill Vander Zalm. Unfortunately, he wasn’t terribly popular and left office in the early 1990s. From my understanding, that led to the implosion of the Social Credit Party and it’s been back and forth between the lefties and not-so-lefties ever since.
I lived off and on in Alberta for most of my life and that was one reason I wanted to sell the house. A few months after my father died, and I started working on settling the estate, the Horgan NDP was elected. I couldn’t wait to get finished and clear out of B. C. for good.
Personally, I don’t think there’s any hope for province now. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2026-09-16 19:22:14 -0400Smart move, Bernhard. Alberta is a much more sane place than BC.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2026-09-16 19:21:08 -0400High taxes is what voters get when they vote NDP. They’re too dense to notice and many are led to believe it’s capitolism’s fault. Study history and you’ll never find a socialist country, state, or province which prospered. They all need corporate capitalism to prop them up.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-09-16 16:39:12 -0400I inherited my parents’ house in B. C. People wondered why I sold it. This proposed tax hike only confirms that I made the right decision.
