Jordan Bateman

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ICBA to Ottawa: Stop Taxing the Things We Build With

Canada's counter-tariffs took effect September 8. By our count, about 400 of the product lines on that schedule are construction inputs — roughly $22...

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C&C #30: Ottawa Deletes a Review Layer

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ICBA to Ottawa: List the West Coast Pipeline — and Tender Every Contract Fairly

ICBA filed its submission today with Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of One Canadian Economy, urging Ottawa to list the West Coast Oil Pipeline in Schedule...

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C&C #29: Green Line and a Trade War

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C&C #28: Build Like It's Wartime

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SUBMISSION: 15 Ways Budget 2026 can get Canada Building

Canada has $650 billion of major projects on the books in B.C. and Alberta alone. What it lacks is a system that can get them built.

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C&C #27: Greenview, Internal Trade and B.C. Messing Up Businesses Yet Again

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C&C #25: GDP, Alberta Rebound, and a Jordan Rant on the State of B.C.

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SUBMISSION: What we told Ottawa about the housing pipeline

B.C. recorded 124 presales in the first three months of this year. In the same period of 2021, it was about 6,000.