The list of waste and vile behaviour is almost never-ending:
On June 15, 2020, Erskine-Smith’s motion asked the House of Commons industry committee to summon grocery executives to explain why they cut the bonuses and “how those decisions are consistent with competition laws.”
Within weeks, top executives from each of the three chains — Loblaw Companies Ltd., Sobeys parent Empire Co. Ltd., and Metro Inc. — appeared before the committee, where they revealed they had been in contact with one another before cancelling the hero bonuses.
Loblaw’s president at the time, Sarah Davis, said she sent a “courtesy email” to let competitors know about her decision ahead of time. Metro CEO Eric La Flèche said he called executives at competing chains trying to get information about when they planned on cutting the bonuses. Empire chief executive Michael Medline said he opted to have legal counsel on the call with La Flèche and declined to talk about his plans for hero pay. Davis said she told La Flèche she hadn’t made a decision. All three companies stressed that they made their decisions on hero pay independently, and denied any wrongdoing.
“Business is booming,” Erskine said at the hearing. “Profits are coming in in record numbers and, Mr. La Flèche, you are proactively reaching out to your competitors to say, ‘When can we cut pandemic wages?'”
“With all due respect, again I disagree with that,” La Flèche responded.
“I’ll leave the remainder of those kinds of questions to the Competition Bureau,” Erskine-Smith said.
But the Competition Bureau — the agency that enforces competition law in Canada — didn’t investigate. In a letter to Erskine-Smith in 2020, Competition Commissioner Matthew Boswell explained that the Competition Act did not consider it to be a criminal offence when employers collude to fix wages or agree not to hire each other’s staff — known as “no-poach agreements.”
That’s because, at least in the eyes of the law at the time, collusion between businesses to lower the cost of inputs isn’t always a bad thing for consumers. If, for example, independents pool their resources to get a deal on ingredients, then their customers potentially benefit from lower retail prices.
These chains acted as a monopoly and a few of the things opened when governments around the world enforced house arrest. It offered store-workers a public-pleasing measure and then withdrew to keep money in their own pockets.
Am I missing something?
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Let's start with the government.
I know that my movements are tracked all the time:
The tax gap represents the difference between the total amount of taxes that would be paid if every Canadian individual and corporation fully reported all their income properly (including income from the underground economy), took only appropriate expense deductions and properly claimed only the tax credits to which they were entitled compared to the tax actually paid and collected by the Canada Revenue Agency. In short, it’s a measure of the potential loss of tax revenue resulting from tax non-compliance.
The new report shows that for 2018, Canada’s federal “gross” tax gap was estimated to be between $35.1 billion to $40.4 billion before taking into account the CRA’s compliance and collection activities. Through those ongoing audit and collection efforts, the CRA is expected to ultimately reduce the gap to between $18.1 billion to $23.4 billion, or approximately seven to nine per cent of federal tax revenue. This percentage has been fairly stable over a five-year period, even as Canada’s federal tax revenues haven risen to $272 billion (2018-2019 fiscal year) from $237 billion (2014-2015). The gap in 2014 ranged from $15 billion to $19.1 billion.
In calculating the tax gap, there are two main forms of non-compliance: reporting non-compliance and payment non-compliance. Reporting non-compliance is when taxpayers fail to provide complete or accurate information on their tax returns by under-reporting income or claiming deductions or credits to which they are not entitled. Payment non-compliance occurs when assessed taxes are not fully paid on time by taxpayers for a particular tax year.
During tax years 2014 to 2018, around 80 per cent of the total gross tax gap was related to reporting non-compliance while the other 20 per cent was related to payment non-compliance. Drilling down deeper on the personal income tax gap, around 70 per cent was related to reporting non-compliance and 30 per cent was related to payment non-compliance. For corporations, 95 per cent was related to reporting non-compliance and five per cent was related to payment non-compliance.
That is because he is a two-faced, groping scumbag:
“Unacceptable” means “not able to be accepted.” It’s an adjective people often use for events they don’t like but are going to have to, well, accept. Someone should tell Mayor Plante that, as cosmopolitan as her city is, being its mayor does not get you a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, nor in the U.S. Congress nor even in a U.S. state legislature, where abortion law will now be made by democratically elected representatives of the people — as it is in this country, as it is in most of the democracies we typically compare ourselves with.
Actually, our own current lack of an abortion law is a result of a tie vote in our unelected Senate in 1991 on a bill that would have replaced the law our own Supreme Court struck down in 1988, not for violating any clear constitutional right to abortion but on much narrower grounds. In the now backwards-heading United States, they have at least figured out how not to have tie votes in their Senate, which, unlike ours, is elected.
Mme. Plante is not a U.S. citizen, nor even a dual citizen, so she doesn’t get to vote in U.S. elections so, lacking any leverage except her Twitter account, she’ll have to accept the SCOTUS decision whether she finds it hard to swallow or not.
Speaking from Rwanda, our prime minister had a similar reaction: “We need to continue to stand strong … which Canada will do, whether it’s fighting for women’s rights here in Africa, or supporting people fighting for their rights in the United States and elsewhere.” Mr. Trudeau is not just a mayor but a national prime minister. Even so, his ability to fight for the rights of Africans and Americans is limited. How about he instead turn his rights passion to transgressions against people who actually fall within his jurisdiction? English-speakers in Quebec, say.
We’re standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Ukrainians, the prime minister repeatedly tells us. He even went to Ukraine to literally stand beside President Zelenskyy. From Africa he says we’re “standing strong, to defend everybody’s rights and freedoms in Canada and … internationally.” (All this standing! Anyone got a chair?) But a provincial government in his own country is about to circumscribe use of one of that country’s two official languages — languages that have official status thanks largely to his own father — and he is basically silent, even when the outlawing is of businesses whose regulation is in his own federal jurisdiction.
(Sidebar: yeah, about that ...)
Also - woman freely avail themselves of these services because all that YOU offer the, cottage cheese-@$$, is abortion. No choice there:
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland stated that organizations that provide "dishonest counselling" to expectant mothers will be "ineligible" for charity status.
Her comments came in response to a petition from a group of Canadians concerned that the Trudeau government would be cracking down on pro-life pregnancy centers.
"The Liberal Party of Canada has promised in its 2021 platform to deny the charitable status of organizations that have convictions about abortion which the Liberal Party views as 'dishonest'," the petition read.
"This may jeopardize the charitable status of hospitals, houses of worship, schools, homeless shelters, and other charitable organizations which do not agree with the Liberal Party on this matter for reasons of conscience."
Your tyranny has been noted, b!#ch.
And - it's not treason if he always hated Canada:
“In the face of international condemnation of Iran’s destructive pursuit of nuclear weapons, filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau and senior advisor to brother Justin’s campaign for leadership of the Liberal party, reports that Iran’s atomic ambitions are for defensive purposes only.”
The Canadian Pacific Railway could not fully comply with a federal vaccinate mandate and keep the trains running safely, according to labour board records. The CPR said full compliance would “place the critical operations of the railroad at risk.”
The federal government is delaying new emissions standards on gasoline and diesel another year but is demanding the oil and gas sector make bigger cuts to fuel emissions by 2030 given how much more money the companies are now making.
Cabinet approved the final regulations for the long-awaited Clean Fuel Standard last week and The Canadian Press obtained them today ahead of their intended publication on July 6.
The secret trial is happening in the wake of a recent story in the National Post detailing a concerning rise in the number of discretionary publication bans being sought in Canadian courts.
The case at the Vancouver Law Courts is referred to on the court docket as “Named Persons V. Attorney-General of Canada,” but very little else about the civil matter is readily available.
When a reporter arrived at the courtroom shortly before the trial was to begin, the doors were open and there was a small number of lawyers present.
One of the lawyers, who declined to be identified, said there was a publication ban on the case and noted that the court file had been sealed, but did not provide details of the ban and added that the matter would have to be addressed by the trial judge, B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson.
But before the arrival of Hinkson, B.C.’s top trial court judge, a court clerk handed a typed notice to the sheriff, who advised the reporter that the case was going in-camera, or behind closed doors. The reporter left the courtroom.
A clerk in the civil registry confirmed that the file was sealed and declined to provide any details of the case, including the names of counsel involved in the matter.
Later, a Postmedia lawyer was told much the same thing when he made inquiries about the sealing order at the registry.
The doors to the courtroom remained closed after the lunch break. No one answered a knock on the door. The notice, which said, “This courtroom is closed to the public”, remained attached to the door of the courtroom.
Retired judge Bruce Cohen, who acts as a spokesman for the superior courts, said that he had made inquiries into the reason why the case had gone in-camera, but there was no information available to him that he could pass on.
Let's get people used to show trials and secrets.
When will this book be banned in Canada?:
Good read. Very informative/detailed. Sr RCMP screwed up big time - biggest issue - no-one in power was from NS - had no idea where critical incidences were occurring during or in media availability
— Tea 🇨🇦 (@Tea_O_CANADA) June 24, 2022
Be interesting to see how these new details fit into the narrative pic.twitter.com/782RlUIZih
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