But it soon became obvious this was no CBC Sunday school primer in corporate tax, nor was it an instructional seminar in which the straight facts would be exposed by an expert. From top to bottom, this was a set up, with Mr. Enright as chief wolf and protagonist. Nothing was fully presented, backgrounds were unstated, journalistic methods were highly questionable, the facts were mangled and the objectives hidden.
The interviewee, Dennis Howlett, is not a tax specialist, let alone a corporate tax expert. He’s a long time social activist who has held a variety of posts, including executive director of the National Anti-Poverty Organization. He’s been a relentless campaigner over decades for social justice, wealth redistribution and soak-the-rich government intervention. He’s a star in NDP circles.
I fainted as soon as I read that the CBC was attacking capitalism.
The appalling amount of lies and deception in all forms of media is frustrating. Anyone with real character would never stoop to such methods. Of course anyone with character would never go to journalism school. And so it goes.
“… Dennis Howlett, is not a tax specialist, let alone a corporate tax expert. He’s a long time social activist…”
In the U.S. aka “a community organizer”.
With his resume, he could be the next POTUS.
And we pay for Enright along with all the other leftists at the CBC.
Should Enright actually be referred to as Enleft?
The CBC is the ultimate example of hogs at the taxpayer trough, they have never really had to work for their existence, other than whimpering to the government of the day. they are totally incapable of understanding capitalism and it’s role in o0ur society and economy. this hind tweet organization has long outlive it’s usefulness, if it ever had any and it is time for it to be tossed to the scrap heap of bad ideas.
Who owns 20.4% of Sirius XM Canada? CBC. You paid for it.
Enright is a rabid lefty and not worth listening to.
The give-away is being in favour of wealth redistribution, which when translated means the state must be able to steal from the workers in order to provide me with a free expensive life style. As for the CBC I hold PM Harper responsible for refusing to privatise it while having a majority.
Ken, you are entirely correct, but my aunt would watch Enright if she weren’t in church would be watching and soaking it in because, well, it’s the CBC.
The second last paragraph of the article says a truly important fact; corporate income tax is paid by all of us in the form of products and services we buy, but try to tell that to most Canadians like my aunt. Even if you succeed in explaining it to them that taxes are just another input into the cost of the product just like steel and plastic and labour, you get this response, “But it still isn’t fair”. They don’t think it’s fair because they have been trained that way but the agenda of the media.
Enright: “So let’s go after the Mafia by firing a whole much of cops.”
throw in some union execs, pension fund execs, Quebec politicians, and bingo, you’d dam near shut the mafia down:-)))
Enright is evidence of the damage resulting from taxes that were paid. I occasionally listen to CBC, but not when Enright is in his bully pulpit.