C&C #29: A Trade War, a Road Sign, and a Tax on Your Engineer

Trump just banned Canadian goods from U.S. government contracts. David Eby's answer: a sign at the border that says "Sorry!" Three weeks from now, his PST hits the engineers and architects on every project you build.

Episode 29 of ICBA Coffee & Construction — the news that matters to the people who build British Columbia and Alberta, with ICBA's Jordan Bateman. On today's show:

☕ THE BIG ONE: Counter-tariff day. Trump strips Canadian products from U.S. procurement. Eby holds a rally. Business has absorbed 16-PLUS tariff changes in 21 months — and CFIB asks for the one thing Victoria controls: scrap the Oct. 1 PST expansion. He didn't.

🚧 Calgary's executive committee votes 12-1 for the only Green Line downtown route that fits the $6.2-billion budget.  $209 million already awarded on the southeast leg.

🏠 Where the work is: 1,460 Ottawa–Alberta affordable homes, 500 of them FACTORY-BUILT. A $57-million, 60-bed care facility starts construction in Surrey. And a Burnaby rental project where Metro Vancouver waived its own development charges — proof of what those fees do to yours.

🌉 Roberts Bank Terminal 2 gets its "national interest" clock — 370 federal conditions, 16 provincial, 27 First Nations agreements, and activists heading to court anyway.

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