Lies Mulcair may have told me

When I spoke with the NDPs Finace Critic Thoams Mulcair on Friday and he provided me with his incoherent reasons why income trusts must be killed, even though doing so would be to the detriment of losing $6 billion of annual tax revenue under the Marshall Savings Plan, which was the reason that I called him, I responded by saying that as a lawyer he is allowed to operate his law practice as an income trust, and so why can’t people saving for retirement do the same in their RRSPs, particularly when OMER retirees and other pensioners can?

At this point Thomas Mulcair became quite haughty as only he is able, and said that what I just said was not true as far as his being a lawyer in Quebec was concerned. But not wanting to point out that tax law in Canada is a federal matter on these issues and not provincial, instead I responded by saying that my point was valid in at least 9 of 10 Canadian provinces, including with Jim Flaherty’s law firm here in Ontario.

Now I learn that it is possible that my original point to Mulcair was valid in all 10 Canadian provinces as I suspected based on this comment on my blog:




Brent..is T. Mulcair lying to you???
http://www.hg.org/articles/article_744.html

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