NDP Unveil Campaign Pledge to Remove GST on Internet, Heat, Diapers, More

OTTAWA—The NDP would remove the GST on all “essentials” if it forms the government after the next election, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Thursday. The announcement comes as the cost of living has played a central role in multiple provincial elections this fall, and was a key factor in the U.S. presidential race that concluded last week with a Donald Trump victory. “When you buy groceries there’s not GST applied to that, so that happens right at the till. So we want to expand that to acknowledge that Canadians are going through a tough time, and our daily essentials should not be where government is nickel-and-diming people,” Singh said at an address to the Canadian Club in Toronto....