{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"ICBA Coffee & Construction","title":"C&C #21: Gavin Dew on PST and Data Centres","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1281,"description":"On October 1, every engineering bill in British Columbia gets seven per cent more expensive. Every architect's invoice. Every accountant's. Even the legislature's own finance committee says don't do it. In a first for the show, Jordan Bateman sits down with a guest from outside ICBA: Gavin Dew, MLA for Kelowna-Mission and the Conservative critic for Economic Development ā€” a small-business owner who's read a payroll from both sides of the desk.\n\nEpisode 21 of ICBA Coffee & Construction ā€” the news that matters to the people who build British Columbia and Alberta, with ICBA's Jordan Bateman. On today's show:\n\nā˜• THE OCTOBER 1 TAX: Budget 2026 expands the 7% PST to engineering, architecture, accounting and geoscience services ā€” a tax on the paperwork before a shovel ever hits the ground. Dew has called it a stealth tax since spring; now the finance committee has recommended repeal. Can it be stopped in time?\n\nšŸ–„ļø The data centre boom is one province over. Alberta is running town halls for tens of billions in proposals while B.C. is barely in the conversation.Ā \nšŸ“‰ The fall file: B.C. added 2,300 jobs in the past year. Alberta added 91,000. What the jobs critic hammers when the House comes back ā€” and what employers watching should do about it.\n\nšŸ“Š Get the ICBA Economics briefing ā€” the most helpful email you'll get all week: https://icba.ca/economics","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cbYnPby-34WwINekPZoHv9aYI0-XpmtKJrtNbyowe78/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81NThm/ZGE3NTk0NmVmNTFj/MjNjZmIwOGRjM2Vm/YzMwOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}