12 Replies to “De Minimus”

  1. The one thing I learned is to ship by US Postal Service. UPS and Fedex charge more brokerage fees than freight charges, sometimes $50 so they can remit a few dollars in GST which, as a business, we claimed back anyway. Just a stupid waste of effort.

  2. PS … I have stopped buying ANYTHING from Canada. Shipping, at best is slower than EMS from Japan, prices are artificially high, and I get charged “duties”. Not worth the bother, sorry mates.

  3. From the article :
    instead of giving Canadian shoppers a break and raising it to $80, Ottawa spends about $166 million to collect $39 million in additional taxes and duties.
    Classic freaking Canadian government stupidity. Next time it needs to be burned to the ground.

  4. Kenji,
    Uh I think you missed the entire point of the article.
    It’s about the Canadian Government fleecing Canadian citizens.

  5. “Fleecing Canadian consumers is the Canadian way…”
    Yup. And private sector taxpayers must surely fall under that definition of “consumers”.

  6. When i watched the brexit movie i thought it was pretty amazing and similar to canadian companies in that the larger corporations and companies LOVE big gov and big taxes and HUGE regulations becasue it keeps the little to mid sized companies at heel or they simply fold under the regulatory process.
    In canada it is exactly the same the suncor,cnrl,and the likes these big oil companies buy into and tow the carbon tax line and the regulations and taxes that go along with these policies becasue they know it will crush the smaller companies and now we see it realized and these and other large corporations will always vote liberal becasue they know liberals actually bring them larger market share ….becasue the small guys collapse and the customers move to the big guys….and the liberals get re elected….

  7. It figures,the “Canadian way” has always been to soak the hell out of Canadians,while selling Canadian goods cheaper in foreign Countries.
    “Ottawa spends about $166 million to collect $39 million in additional taxes and duties.”
    And THAT,too, is the Canadian way,the government would rather lose (our) money than let a peasant have a bit of a bargain.
    Oh yes,one more small point; WHY didn’t our beloved former Conservative government address THIS instead of f***ing around tweaking TV regulations that in the end didn’t help consumers one little bit.
    Canadian politicians,from every political Party,once in government treat us with contempt. I won’t even get into our absurd liquor regulation!

  8. WHY didn’t our beloved former Conservative government address THIS instead of f***ing around
    WHY didn’t our beloved former Conservative government address a whole lot of things instead of f***ing around ? They’re a bigger disappointment than the Lieberals, who we KNOW will fĂșck us over.

  9. We were all cheering incrementalism as a great thing but I think we’ve all seen now that the only way forward is to make permanent changes as quickly as possible.

  10. Have you been watching the same news reports I have? The Liberals have been undoing all of the legislation that the CPC brought in. No matter what changes they CPC made, the Liberals are reversing them all, regardless of what Canadians think. So, if you think the CPC could have made changes that were permanent, think again. All that would have happened would have been a larger rout, or earlier had the CPC tried to make sweeping changes earlier in their mandate.
    The only way to move forward, is to keep power long enough to convince the majority to support the change. In Canukistan, that will never happen. Be thankful the NDP exists to split the left a little, or the CPC would never be able to form government at all. It is a 60/40 split, left to right, in this country.

  11. Reguar in Fort McMurray 104.9 litre.
    Lac La Biche 280 kms South: 1.149 litre.
    Can’t blame ISIS, but WTF!

  12. Traditionally, Newfoundland was pro free trade, laissez faire, and opposed to regulation. The older Nfdlers were desperate NOT to join Canada. “Our face toward Britain, our backs to the Gulf; come near at your peril, Canadian wolf.”

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