Allegation
Known fact.
Then, there’s what we really need to know.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF INCOME TRUST INVESTORS WEBLOG
As you well know, the ‘income trust thing’ has grown beyond the question of whether fair taxes are paid on income from trusts. It’s become a giant dirty snowball, and as it rolls forward it accumulates more and more bulk. There are so many unanswered questions. Let's list a few and invite our "Accountable" government and our free press to provide some much-needed answers.
It is said “Trusts are inefficient use of capital. Why?” Two related questions are ‘Whose money is it, anyway?’, and ‘Do Canadian investors have a free and efficient market?’
How can information that is already in the public domain at SEDAR make for a state secret? How could such information be used to harm the Canadian national interest? And who would cause the harm?
Why won’t the Canadian media investigate the falsehoods and misrepresentations told by the Minister of Finance to a committee of Parliament? Was the Minister in contempt of Parliament?
Why won’t the Canadian media report (a) government tax revenues gained from BCE in 2006 when BCE was a corporation to (b) government tax revenues that would be gained in 2007 from BCE, if BCE had been allowed to proceed to a trust, and (c) government tax revenues that will be gained in 2007 from BCE, when BCE ownership has been carved up as 45% foreign ownership and 55% large Canadian pension fund ownership?
1 comment:
The list of scandals is a mile long---why is there only about one inch worth of discussion.
It seems that a problem is uncovered one minute & ends up buried the next--there appear to be several reasons.
There is an ineffectual media in this country.
The opposition parties have become less than stellar at moving these issues along.
The citizens of this country have become jaded into thinking that what happens in government has no bearing on their lives unless they are attacked personally.
The gov`t itself is very slick & effective at controlling the situation before it jumps out of control.
This has become the perfect storm.
It is time to make any gov`t accountable for it`s actions.
Until voter apathy is no longer an issue , all we can expect is quality in gov`t which is severely lacking.
People , unless you take a stand & speak out , nothing will change & we will continue to see deadbeat gov`ts like that of Mr Harper , continue their reign of terror over this land.
I wonder what Elizabeth May would look like as Prime Minister!!!!!
Mike.
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