Shiny’s “hugging buddy” bag man is accused of fraud.
Shocking no one.
h/t: don morris
Hah.
What do you know, a provincial Liberal gov’t with some spine.
Drivers likely won’t feel province’s 2.33-cent-per-litre tax, since same revenue is merely being redirected
New Brunswickers will start paying a 2.33-cent-per-litre carbon tax in April, but it’s unlikely they will notice.
That’s because the Brian Gallant government won’t add that to existing taxes already paid at the pump, but will shift that amount from the existing 15.5-cent-per litre gas tax.
That means no net increase on the price of gas.
Of note, though, this inventive budgeting measure does nothing for manufacturing or home-heating tax relief.
Because it’s 2017
Screwing small business,
Hooping the air force,
Killing the family farm,
And doing inappropriate things to women.
I guess they really are entitled to their entitlements.
The Liberals war on small business.
When you’ve been spanked trying to use the summer to slide unjust restrictions into place your next option is to do it during the Christmas holidays.
OTTAWA – Finance Minister Bill Morneau is set to reveal details of the government’s income sprinkling tax changes Wednesday, just over two weeks before the new rules will come into effect.
I hope small business owners who end their year on December 31st are ready to meet with their accountants between Christmas and New Years.
Related: Senators urge Liberals to drop small-business tax changes
Chinada
It should tell you something about just how deeply the rot has spread that the Liberal Party of Canada was well represented at the Chinese Communist Party’s three-day “dialogue with world political parties” that was wrapping up just as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was arriving in Beijing on Sunday, and that among the 300 delegates who lauded Xi Jinping’s regime “as the core in pushing forward the building of a community of a shared future for mankind and of a better world” was none other than Jean Chretien. The former Liberal prime minister is nowadays employed by Denton’s Canada LLP, the ugly little stepsister of the global conglomerate Beijing Dacheng.
It should also tell you something about just how run-of-the-mill these kinds of obscenities have become that barely a whisper has been heard in the House of Commons following last week’s revelations about the generosity the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department and its related overseas influence-peddling agencies have been lavishing upon Canadian politicians.
Along with pro-Beijing lobby groups headquartered in Canada, the Chinese Communist Party’s “soft power” brokers have picked up the costs of dozens of getting-to-know-you trips to China over the years for several Liberal and Conservative MPs and senators. All by himself, John McCallum, the cabinet minister Trudeau appointed ambassador to China last year, racked up freebie trips to the value of $73,300.
Read it all. (h/t abtrapper)
Oh, Shiny Libranos!
“Can the Minister tell us who sold those shares?“
Question Period Today: Start the video at the 10:30 mark, and then watch Morneau twist..
Little Potato
“He pulled out of the TPP at five minutes to midnight and then rocked up at the EAS like he belonged there,” the official said.
Trudeau is probably still surprised the delegates didn’t ask him for selfies.
While Canadians have the gumption to complain about Trump and Russia, Trudeau is abandoning our traditional friends and cozying up to China.
Wynning!
Give them a break, those wind turbines are expensive to maintain.
Speaking after delivering remarks to the Empire Club, Mayo Schmidt spoke about the application that’s currently before the Ontario Energy Board, which seeks to increase rates by 0.5 per cent this year and 4.8 per cent next year.
CRA identifies gold mine
PayPal ordered to disclose Canadian business account information to CRA
Online payments company PayPal has been ordered to hand over information about its Canadian business account holders to the Canada Revenue Agency.
Grandma sold her knitted socks online, bust that tax fraud!
Main Street vs. Bay Street
Other Liberal MPs also derided the opposition attacks as mudslinging. Vancy Badawey (Niagara Centre, Ont.) called them “Parliamentary theatrics,” and said his party would continue to focus on mental health, the economy, and other priorities for Canadians.
After spending a summer labelling small business, doctors and the family farm as tax cheats and frauds, the Party of the “super elites and the grand bourgeoisie of Canada, the big rich families” call foul over being called tax cheats and frauds.
Related: Bill Morneau gets low ratings in new poll
When asked by Nanos Research whom Liberal economic policies are helping, 41 per cent of those polled said upper-income Canadians, 17 per cent said lower-income Canadians and 14 per cent identified middle-income earners.
Shiny, call your office, your narrative is broke.
From the hands of criminals
The plan would add an excise tax of $1 per gram or 10 per cent of the final retail price, whichever is higher, with the revenues to be divided equally between Ottawa and the provinces.
The odds of the Provinces going for this ‘deal’ is near to null, I think. They get all the costs, Ottawa gets half the profit + GST? Not likely.
Oh, Shiny Villas!
Club Med announces its first Canada resort to open in Le Massif, Charlevoix Ski Region
The project represents a $120 million investment with the objective of developing 300 rooms including 4-Trident Club and Deluxe-level rooms with a 5-Trident luxury space. The future resort promises to be a haven for family and couple getaways as well as ideal for groups, with spaces provided to accommodate seminars and events.
Club Med brings its unique all-inclusive mountain vacation model to the heart of an already renowned ski region situated at the highest point in Eastern Canada, including a unique ski experience with spectacular waterfront views overlooking the Saint Laurence River.
And now, the rest of the story.
The Government of Canada provides $9,850,000 in funding for the Le Massif de Charlevoix Hotel Complex Limited Partnership
Oh, Shiny Libranos!
ANOTHER $200 FINE COMING RIGHT UP;
Two generations of Liberal fundraisers — Stephen Bronfman and his 88-year-old retired senator godfather Leo Kolber — are tied together in a complex offshore structure that amassed $60 million (U.S.) in a tax haven beyond the reach of tax collectors in Canada, Israel and the U.S., a newly leaked trove of documents reveal.
Buried in the Paradise Papers, a massive leak to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which includes the Toronto Star and CBC/Radio-Canada, are more than 5,000 pages of internal records detailing how the Bronfmans and Kolbers invested in Israel through two offshore trust funds in the Cayman Islands.
It was a two-family affair: Stephen Bronfman personally lent millions to the Cayman trust that handled his family’s investments in Israel, run by Leo Kolber’s son, Jonathan, 55.
Trudeau’s “chief fundraiser”. Grab a coffee.
The journalist who exposed Panama Papers killed by car bomb, hope this one gets adequate protection. #ParadisePapers
— IMRAN KHAN (@imranmkkhan) November 5, 2017
More: “Kill Bill”
It was only in 2007, after Stephen Harper’s Conservative government came to power, that a bill finally passed the House of Commons. The hallmark of that legislation was that all Canadian contributions to foreign trusts would now be taxed on their earnings.
“It was actually a time when all parties came together on one issue,” former MP Wasylycia-Leis said. “And that was to find a way to stop the spread and growth of these tax havens.”
But Davies Ward wasn’t going to give up yet.
Curtsy while you’re thinking. It saves time.
…elevation to the GG office, delight and honour that it undoubtedly is, does not come with a certificate of intellectual authority, or the prerogative to delimit the scope of inquiry and debate on any issue the Commons or the citizenry may wish to engage. It is not at all evident that Ms. Payette is clear on these points.
Caption of The Year
Oh, Shiny Libranos!
Still reeling from a conflict of interest controversy that has dominated the government’s agenda this fall, Finance Minister Bill Morneau got some more bad news on Halloween.
Notice of a $200 fine related to Morneau’s villa in France was posted Tuesday to the website of the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner.
That’ll teach him.
YOU get a Porsche! And YOU get a Porsche!
Oh, shiny Prime Minister…
Oh, Shiny Libranos!
Bank of Canada is not the only government agency using the services of Morneau Shepell, the Sun has learned.
At least four other federal departments and agencies have ongoing contracts with Morneau Shepell, the human resources firm formerly run by Finance Minister Bill Morneau.
The accumulated value of these various contracts is about $14 million.
A spokesperson from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) confirmed that it has eight different contracts with Morneau Shepell, with a total value of $2.3 million. The largest contracts are for employee assistance programs, providing benefits and workplace perks for CRA workers in Quebec, the Prairie Region and at CRA headquarters in Ottawa.
h/t Ken (Kulak)
#WillyPorno
Well SOMEONE has a nickname for life: pic.twitter.com/e2k3wJwo1R
— J.J. McCullough (@JJ_McCullough) October 24, 2017
‘Smart’ governance.
“You want to say mistake but it’s almost to the level of incompetence at this point,” Mills told Global News. “If I have this person’s information then where is mine? Is it in Nova Scotia in the hands of a Brazilian being deported back to Brazil?”