Editorial: Delay B.C. speculation tax for a year

The best that can be said for the NDP government’s so-called speculation tax is that it isn’t in effect yet.
The measure introduced in the February budget isn’t a speculation tax at all, of course, it’s a second homes tax. Anyone who owns a property that is not lived in full time in designated areas — namely the Capital, Nanaimo, Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley regional districts, plus the municipalities of Kelowna and West Kelowna — may be subject to the ta