City will not support asking province to introduce PST to fund municipal capital projects
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Grande Prairie will not be supporting an Alberta Urban Municipalities (AUMA) resolution regarding a provincial sales tax.
The Corporate Services Committee received a request from the City of Lethbridge to support an AUMA resolution, asking the province to implement a 1 per cent PST, with the revenue to go directly towards funding capital projects in municipalities.
“There were a number of Council members who spoke in support of having a discussion about (a) PST for the province,” says Mayor Bill Given. “But none of us felt that was a role for municipalities to play, and more broadly, there wasn’t strong support for the idea of any kind of PST being directed specifically and exclusively to the use of municipalities.”
He says that personally, he does support the discussion of a PST, and believes Alberta has been fortunate in its ability to rely on natural resources for governmental funding, but that it is not sustainable long-term for the province.
