Conservatives would require the Canada Revenue Agency to publicly identify corporations that pay little or no federal tax, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said yesterday. Auditors would also be instructed to stop “harassing small businesses and charities,” a longstanding complaint documented through in-house Agency research: "You can't avoid your taxes; global elites shouldn't be able to either." READ MORE
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday proposed to reintroduce a tax shelter for property speculators that was abandoned 44 years ago as costly and inefficient. Carney gave no reason for resurrecting the Multi-Unit Residential Building Tax Incentive that cost taxpayers the equivalent of $11,000 for every apartment built: 'The main beneficiaries were developers, promoters and investors.' READ MORE
Parliament’s temporary curb on foreign purchase of residential real estate should be made permanent with loopholes closed, New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh said yesterday. The measure due to expire January 1, 2027 was no substitute for a “permanent ban on foreign homebuyers,” said Singh. READ MORE
The Green Party yesterday claimed unnamed political rivals were frightening its canvassers in what the national campaign manager called an “unprecedented” wave of incivility. The Party would not name names. No police were called: "What part of our democracy will be attacked next?" READ MORE
Canadian businesses and consumers alike are holding what cash they have in anticipation of a recession, the Bank of Canada said yesterday. Findings were drawn from quarterly surveys: "Is a recession imminent?" READ MORE
Pandemic-era bans on peaceful protests were unlawful, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. The decision was won by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms on behalf of citizens charged for attending anti-government rallies in 2021: "Everyone has the freedom of peaceful assembly." READ MORE
Federal election monitors yesterday said they suspect Chinese Communist Party agents are running a media campaign describing Prime Minister Mark Carney as a "rock star." The Liberal Party was notified Sunday but made no public comment: "Carney has an ambitious economic recovery plan." READ MORE
I was born in Hartford, Connecticut. I have ancestors who signed the Declaration of Independence. Both my parents were registered Democrats. I voted Democrat in 1972, in the only ballot I cast in the U.S. before our family moved to Cape Breton. My mother Stephanie volunteered as a Democratic fundraiser and campaigned against the Vietnam War, and wound up on Nixon’s Enemies List. On the wall of my parliamentary office is a framed watercolour of the White House that Franklin Roosevelt autographed for my grandfather. Do you know what party George Washington belonged to? He didn’t. Washington was against political parties. The U.S. was never designed as a two-party system, not at all. Yet today Democrats and Republicans have a vice grip on their democracy.
