Ottawa proposes to spur competition, extend CEBA loan deadline, drop GST on rental construction

By Cristin Schmitz (September 15, 2023, 1:46 PM EDT) -- Ottawa says it will eliminate the GST on purpose-built apartment and student- and senior-housing rental builds; extend by a year the deadline for small businesses to repay their Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) loans; and introduce comprehensive reforms to the federal Competition Act, starting by dropping the “efficiencies” defence and boosting the Competition Bureau’s powers to compel the production of information....