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MrRodgers -> When will the Canadians learn ? (2/12/2014 12:40:12 AM)
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Those Canadians just don't want to learn do they ? And this is the conservatives in Canada...can you imagine ? I mean just look at what Canada is going to do: Here
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s budget will include a promise of legislation to stop “country pricing” — when multinational brands set different prices in Canada and the United States, a government official told The Canadian Press. The legislation will address the price gap and empower the country’s competition commissioner to enforce the new rules. To think they are actually going enforce competition.
The government also intends to monitor whether last year’s elimination of tariffs on baby clothing and sports equipment — some of them as high as 20 per cent — is being passed onto consumers at the retail level. Can they do that ? Please tell me they can't do that.
A recent report by the Retail Council of Canada, which has worked with the government to tackle country pricing, concluded the tariff cuts have resulted in lower prices for consumers.
But the Consumers Association of Canada has expressed skepticism about whether such steps do indeed cut costs and Flaherty is not expected to chop any more tariffs.
But the no-cost commitment also dovetails with what’s shaping up to be the budget’s underlying theme: demonstrating to voters that the government is taking action to help them, but with precious little new spending. Oh no, say it ain't so Joe.
Ottawa is also promising $800,000 to help skilled newcomers to Canada find work in their fields as part of a larger, job-centred effort that’s expected to be one of the budget’s key planks.
Flaherty said there will be money for major infrastructure projects, which would likely include Toronto-area subways, replacing Montreal’s Champlain Bridge, building a second bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ont., and Vancouver’s Evergreen Line — all of which were highlighted in last October’s throne speech. But the $70 billion will be spread out over the next decade. Imagine that...jobs from infrastructure.
Last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the marquee announcement of a long-awaited plan to rework native education, promising $1.9 billion over several years. But money won’t start flowing until 2016, when the Tories expect to have a fresh electoral mandate and some cash to spend. I mean, are these actual conservative tax and spenders in Canada ?
Both CBC and the Globe and Mail have said the budget will include plans to extend or improve high-speed Internet access to 280,000 households and businesses in rural and remote areas. Just think, hi speed wireless for the Canadian hinterlands.
And the Tories have a brand-new revenue source to tap: the Commons finance committee has recommended that such projects be funded through the proceeds from the 700-megahertz wireless auction. The last auction raised $4.3 billion. Now we in America know that, that is supposed to be used to cut the corporate tax and the top income bracket, ya'know...to create jobs and stuff. [sic]
Treasury Board President Tony Clement has outlined proposed changes to sick leave policy, which would include five to seven sick days a year, a short-term disability leave of a week to six months and long-term leave for more than six months. That does it, I mean who in their right mind would want to go to Canada...it's cold up there, in the winter.
I mean just what are those crazy Canadians thinking ? Do they actually believe that economy is supposed to serve society when we here in the great and glorious American free market [sic] just know that society is supposed to...serve the economy.
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