First Nations HST

First Nations groups plan to gather at Queen's Park today to protest the new harmonized sales tax to take effect on July 1st.

They say the H-S-T will remove a point-of-sale exemption they receive on the provincial portion of the merged tax.

A report commissioned by the Chiefs of Ontario suggests this will cost First Nations up to 120 (m) million dollars in the first year
of the H-S-T.

Ontario Regional Chief Angus Toulouse says this will punish many communities already living in poverty.