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PUBLIC EYE ONLINE:
Many parents will be spending more money to send their children to summer camp thanks to the government's new harmonized sales tax, Public Eye has exclusively learned. And camp leaders worry families without deep pockets won't be able to afford the increase. In the past, the fees for camps run by charitable and religious groups have been exempt from the seven percent provincial sales tax. But Nancy Adams, the Girl Guides of Canada's British Columbia treasurer, said when the harmonized sales tax comes into effect in July 2010, that exemption will end.