Indeed:
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is pledging to raise corporate taxes on banks and insurance companies earning more than $1 billion per year to fund his new housing policy if his government is re-elected next month.
The country’s banks responded swiftly, criticizing the “singling out” of the financial services industry and saying the tax hit will “merely re-direct” bank profits from Canadians to government coffers.
That's the plan!
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Riding on horse-drawn carts might have the same effect:
Trudeau would also require that all cars sold in Canada to be zero emissions by 2035, with a target of 50% by 2030. He also pledged to make the nation’s electricity grid net zero emissions by 2035 and end thermal coal exports by 2030.
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Prior to the last election, the Liberals had to fight back against Conservative claims they were going to tax the sale of all primary residences. The Liberal campaign had Justin Trudeau tweet out a video denying this was part of their platform and then Liberal MP Adam Vaughan had to put out a statement.
“To be perfectly clear. Again. It’s not in our platform,” Vaughan said at the time. “We’ve never considered it. It’s not something the party has endorsed. It’s not something the party will endorse. It won’t happen after we’re re-elected. Period.”
Well, they’re considering it now, for some home sales. It’s right in the Liberal platform on housing released this week when Trudeau was campaigning in Hamilton.
Also - oh, my:
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault yesterday confirmed he is in tax arrears with Revenu Québec. Guilbeault would not say if a portion of his $274,500 cabinet salary was being deducted to settle the five figure debt: “Anyone who profits from the system must contribute to it.”
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