Subject Matter of the Lobbying Activity
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Specific Topics of Lobbying Communications
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Intended Outcomes
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Associated Subject Matters
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Amend the forthcoming Restricted Insurance Agent regulations to allow mortgage brokers to sell life, critical illness and disability insurance without creditor involvement and request BCFSA to amend guidance which currently restricts consumer access to life, critical illness and disability insurance for mortgage broker clients.
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- Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly
- Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
- Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Insurance
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Combatting fraud in the real estate sector through enhanced enforcement efforts and collaboration with the mortgage industry and federal government. This includes supporting the mortgage industry and others in the request to the federal government for CRA-enabled income verification in mortgage applications as a means of fighting mortgage document fraud.
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- Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly
- Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
- Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Financial Institutions
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Extend GST relief on new housing under $1 million for all homebuyers
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- Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly
- Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly
- Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
- Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Taxation and Finance
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