Ontario to launch pilot project to lower development charges

Throughout the province, 31 per cent or more — I’m going low here, it goes up well into the 40s — of a new home construct comes from HST, development charges and the cost of studies, iterations to the building code. A third of the cost of a new home is related to these fees and taxes, and we have to lower them. And development charges is a big one. And I think the answer, or part of the answer, is to implement this municipal service corp. right across the province. We’ll get it in place for Peel Region, but when it works there, it’s going to be a model to use throughout the province.