’I would consider raising the GST but only if needed’
Amid all else on Friday afternoon, Martha Hall Findlay released a statement to explain her views on the GST . This is close to the...
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Who wants to raise the GST?
Former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay does, apparently . The former and current Liberal leadership candidate seems not to deny...
The trouble with taxes
The Globe wonders whether this will be the year we learn to love taxes. But how exactly would this conversation take shape here?...
99 stupid things the government did with your money: Part II
Expensive OJ, sausage research and a report on ’hi’ in Quebec
Q&A with Thomas Mulcair
The leader of the NDP talks to Aaron Wherry about Layton’s legacy, carbon pricing, the Liberal leadership race and Twitter
The royal commission on taxation you’ve been waiting for
The finance committee has released its report on its pre-budget consultations. Among the recommendations is a review of the tax...
The Commons: In praise of the simple question
A dull day in the House is not entirely wasted
Everything is a tax now
The idea of what constitutes a tax has expanded somewhat over the last few weeks to include measures that create government...
’It is a tax because it will raise costs’
In protesting the NDP’s cap-and-trade proposal, Vic Toews adds to the definition of a tax. The Conservatives have already posited...
The Commons: PM Harper explains why his 2008 platform was written in blue ink
(Hint: cap-and-trade)