The Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce is welcoming recommendations from the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services that reflect several of the key business priorities we brought forward during BC’s Budget 2027 consultation.

In June, the Langley Chamber was one of only a small number of chambers of commerce invited to present directly to the Committee. In our presentation, we called for a more serious path to fiscal restraint, stronger action on BC’s competitiveness challenges, and the cancellation of the Province’s planned PST expansion to professional services. Read more >

The Committee’s report shows those concerns were heard.

Most notably, the Committee has recommended that the Province repeal the planned PST expansion to professional services. The Chamber has been clear that this tax expansion is the wrong move at the wrong time. It would increase costs for businesses that rely on services such as accounting, bookkeeping, security, engineering, and commercial real estate, while adding new complexity and administrative burden for the businesses required to collect and remit the tax. For more info, visit LangleyChamber.com/PST

“This is exactly why the Chamber shows up and brings business concerns directly to government,” said Cory Redekop, CEO of the Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce. “We were clear that expanding PST to professional services would increase costs, add complexity, and make BC businesses less competitive. Seeing the Committee recommend repeal is a positive step, and now the Province needs to act before this tax expansion takes effect.”

The report also reflects broader concerns raised by the Chamber about BC’s fiscal direction. Businesses understand that government must provide essential services, but ongoing deficits, rising debt, and growing public-sector costs cannot be solved by layering new taxes and compliance costs onto employers.

The Committee’s recommendations include stronger fiscal planning, deficit-reduction targets, spending reviews, a declining debt-to-GDP ratio, and continued reductions in the size of the provincial public service while protecting front-line services. These are important signals that affordability, competitiveness, and fiscal discipline need to be central to Budget 2027.

While the Committee’s recommendations do not themselves change government policy, they send a clear message: BC businesses need government to take cost, competitiveness, and fiscal restraint seriously.

The Langley Chamber will continue to push the Province to roll-back the PST expansion, provide a credible plan for fiscal restraint, and focus on policies that support business confidence, private-sector growth, and long-term economic prosperity.

This report is a reminder that showing up matters — and that Langley’s business voice is being heard.