Donald Trump’s characterization of Canada’s health-care system as “catastrophic” may be political hyperbole, but we cannot ignore the huge problems that plague our system.
Government Spending & Taxes
October 6, 2016
2:07PM
Ontario’s top combined federal and provincial personal income tax rate is 53.5 per cent for skilled workers.
October 5, 2016
2:08PM
The bottom half of earners in Canada earn 22 per cent of all income yet pay only 15 per cent of all taxes.
October 5, 2016
3:30AM
Residential property taxes are growing faster than real per capita income in many communities.
October 3, 2016
11:46AM
B.C.’s has one of the highest overall tax rates on new investment in Canada and the developed world.
September 30, 2016
12:26PM
For my money—and for taxpayers’ money, too—“shovel worthy” is therefore a much better phrase than “shovel ready.”
September 28, 2016
3:35AM
The purchasing power for the average Canadian wage-earner has increased dramatically since 1976.
September 26, 2016
3:05AM
With the freedom to innovate, provinces experimented with a wide range of welfare reforms.
September 21, 2016
3:31PM
The Liberal government remains committed to a misguided fiscal policy approach that spends borrowed money in the hopes of increasing prosperity.
September 19, 2016
2:03PM
Planned tax will not significantly offset predicted future global warming.
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