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title: "C&C #9: Hidden Fees in Every New Home - Ottawa Might Finally Show the Receipt"
description: Discover how Ottawa's new Housing Cost Transparency Act aims to unveil hidden fees in home building, ensuring transparency in the housing market.
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# [C&C #9: Hidden Fees in Every New Home - Ottawa Might Finally Show the Receipt](https://icba.ca/bc-blog/cc-9-hidden-fees-in-every-new-home-ottawa-might-finally-show-the-receipt)

 Written by [Jordan Bateman](https://icba.ca/bc-blog/author/jordan) | Jul 17, 2026 3:16:27 PM

Every new home comes with a stack of hidden fees. Nobody shows you the receipt. Ottawa might finally make them.

Episode 9 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: Bill C-287, the Housing Cost Transparency Act — ICBA backs MP Brad Redekopp's push to make the building code system show its work: real dollar costs, published before they land in your mortgage

⚡ Shovels go in this month on the North Coast Transmission Line — and Ksi Lisims LNG keeps stacking milestones on the road to a $20-billion final investment decision

🚆 Where the work is: all eight Surrey Langley SkyTrain stations are under construction, and crews are welding rail

🏥 Kamloops gets a win — the new acute treatment area opens at Royal Inland Hospital's emergency department

🏗️ Bird Construction lands roughly $1 BILLION in new work in one announcement — nuclear, mining, energy and seven new Alberta schools

📊 Get the ICBA Economics briefing — the most helpful email you'll get all week: https://icba.ca/economics

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