I can say that judging by the bills I have had with the new tax, we in BC are definitely paying a lot more to eat out these days. (As if this province needed to get any more expensive.) I still don’t understand how Colin Hansen and the BC Libs can try to tell people we are saving money.

August 3, 2010 – Vancouver, BC – Perry Bourpoulas, owner of the Slocan Restaurant in Vancouver, says business is down since the introduction of the HST. A month after the HST was introduced a BC Restaurant Association survey says its members report a 10% drop in business. Photo by Brett Beadle for The Globe and Mail