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Charles Adler: Albertans expect Stephen Harper to obey his own laws
Charles Adler: ''Harper was treating Canadian law like an old "etch-a-sketch," just shaking it up and changing it on a whim.''
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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?
4 comments:
Unbelievably, Albertans and other rubes are still in favour of a Mugabe-style, fascist, theocratic dictator with delusions of grandeur - the Harper 'cult of personality', if you will - with "potted plant" MPs as his disciples.
Or, as others have stated, Albertans would vote for a 'sock puppet' so long as you stamped a "C" on it.
Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams’ newly launched Anything But Conservative website.
http://anythingbutconservative.ca/
You've got to applaud Danny Williams for this excellent and impressive effort!
A premier with the balls to tell it like it is!
Here's hoping it has the intended effect - countrywide!
May I suggest that all income trust investors send an e-mail or letter to Premier Danny Williams, praising him for his efforts in regards to his new website as noted in the previous comment.
See sample e-mail/letter below.
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September 16, 2008
Dear Mr. Danny Williams:
I would just like to offer my personal gratitude to you and your government of Newfoundland and Labrador for this excellent and impressive effort.
Please forgive the blatant accolades, but you are truly one of a kind and the only Canadian premier with the mettle to tell it like it is.
As a fellow Canadian from Ontario who has also been a victim of one of Stephen Harper's broken promises - specifically the one concerning income trusts - I soundly applaud and wholeheartedly support your determination concerning this matter.
Here's hoping it has the intended effect - countrywide!
Many regards and thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Gibbs
Way to go Chuck!!
Surprised me with that one.
Dr Mike Popovich.
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