The Canadian Bar Association, British Columbia, responding to the provincial budget released on February 20, 2007, expressed disappointment that the government failed to remove the discriminatory 7% tax on legal services. Despite a ruling of the British Columbia Court of Appeal that the tax is unconstitutional in part and growing evidence that the tax is a drag on British Columbia's competitiveness, the Government persists in collecting it.

Read the news release.

[posted February 26, 2007]