Mike's Daily Comment

Forget First Time Home Buyers

affordable housingPoliticians talk about affordability and first time buyers but their actions tell a very different story. The mortgage stress test, higher interest rates, property purchase tax, speculation tax, new school tax, green levies, development fees, rising property taxes cost buyers and owners tens of thousands.

An Inconvenient Truth: 43 First Nations Support Pipeline

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Myth one – not all First Nations people think alike – including when it comes to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Opponents would know that if they’d taken a minute to speak to the First Nation that has the most territory covered by the Trans Mountain pipeline in BC. 

The Big Question Regarding Taxes

sowell 2As renowned economist, Thomas Sowell reminds us, income cannot be not “redistributed” without someone first earning it. So the question is – how much is your fair share of what someone else has earned? 

Carbon Tax Will Kill Growth By….

economic crashThe Parliamentary Budget Office has done us the favour of outlining the economic impact of not making the carbon taxes revenue neutral. Are you ready for this whopper? By 2022 the Canadian economy will suffer a…..

The Favourite Rationale For Increasing Taxes

civilTaxes are the price we pay for civilization” at least if you call paying over $5 million for a Parliamentary ice rink that was used for less than 3 weeks civilized. Or over $576,000 in taxes so that the feds could plant stories in Canadian weekly newspapers…now that’s civilized.

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