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Dupuis: Hudak must rethink land transfer tax plan

Stephen Dupuis March 13, 2010

Every time I hear or read that provincial Progressive Conservative Party leader Tim Hudak is thinking of a land transfer tax holiday to create jobs, and I've heard it many times since last fall, I swear I am going to write a contrary column.

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