Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman elected to U.S. Congress, got the media and internet buzzing recently when she told TV host Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes that the U.S. should introduce a tax rate of 70% on incomes of over $10 million to help fund a Green New Deal.
Submission to the House of Commons Finance Committee, for Review of Bill C-82, an Act to implement a multilateral convention to implement tax treaty related measures to prevent base erosion and profit shifting.
Authors: Toby Sanger & David Macdonald (CCPA)
Pharmacare is high on Canada’s political agenda with the federal government’s Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare led by Dr. Eric Hoskins set to report by spring 2019. National pharmacare was a top priority at the 2018 federal Liberal policy convention and some say it will be the defining issue of the 2019 election.2 The NDP has long supported the establishment of a national pharma care program.
To the Pearson Centre’s Year 4 Conference:
There are a lot of positive and worthwhile initiatives in this bill. But it can be noted that the government is not doing justice to the legislation, or to the legislature, by cramming them all into one piece of legislation without enough time for reasoned review by the legislature and experts. ...
Transcript of comments to the House of Commons Finance Committee, during Pre-Budget Consultations.
Author(s): Shirley Tillotson
Publish Date: 2017
A hundred years of tax history in Canada.
Author(s): Oliver Bullough
Publish Date: 2018
A deep dive into the corrupt workings of the world's kleptocrats.
Author(s): Lars Osberg
Publish Date: 2018
The shocking data about life with top, middle and bottom Canadian incomes.