It's Just Money

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Industry representatives are urging Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to back away from plans to spend $100 billion in additional stimulus, saying it would needlessly swell public debt levels and could risk overheating the economy.

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A federal agency misrepresented claims of profitability in a Kenyan cellphone company that received millions in taxpayers’ funding. Canadians were told M-Kopa Holdings Ltd., a money-losing Nairobi sales firm, would “break even” in 2020. It didn’t: “It’s creating good quality jobs in East Africa.”  

 

We don't need jobs in Canada, by the way.

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That will work! Change one tax for another! Brilliant!:

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has released a climate platform that puts a $20-per-tonne carbon charge on fuel —  a major change for a party that has repeatedly attacked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal carbon price on fuels.

O’Toole has steadfastly promised to scrap Trudeau’s “carbon tax,” but he insisted on Thursday that his plan is not a tax because the money will go into a personalized “low carbon savings account” that consumers can spend on environmentally-friendly purchases. The Liberal program, meanwhile, sees the money collected by the federal government and redistributed to consumers through tax rebates.

“Zero dollars go to government,” O’Toole said about his plan. “This is not a tax at all, I have said it is a pricing mechanism for consumers. It will be one third the pricing of Mr. Trudeau’s ever-rising carbon tax, but nothing goes to government. It is not a tax.”

Uh, no. It is a tax. It's squirrelling around the taxpayer by taking his or her money and putting somewhere else.

Like taxes.