O’Brien says the awkwardly filmed video could actually work in his favour.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that a re-elected Conservative Government would introduce a new, permanent Home Renovation Tax Credit. Now, Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair have left the door wide open to doing just that.
“One of my all-time favourites is Breaking Bad“, Harper said of the American drama featuring a high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer who turns to a life of crime and drugs to secure a better financial future for his family before he dies.
Not surprisingly, one of the main recipients of these payments, the Canadian Media Production Association, has also called for a form of Netflix tax.
The Toronto Sun obtained an audio clip Thursday of Vaughan discussing a Netflix tax at an October 2014 town hall meeting when talking about “trans-border companies that broadcast in, but don’t contribute to, the Canadian broadcast spectrum”. In fact, he loves them so much that he’s 100 per cent against a Netflix tax.
At an NDP campaign event in Toronto Thursday, Toronto candidates appearing alongside Tom Mulcair laughed when he was asked by a reporter whether the NDP would bring in a tax on Netflix.
He goes on to say that voters can “only” trust the Conservative Party since they’re the only ones to “focus on the needs of Canadian consumers”. “It’s even available on some online streaming services, if you’ve never seen it”. The left-wing New Democratic Party, which is now leading in the polls, also said they didn’t support the tax, according to The Huffington Post Canada.
The 2014 federal budget includes a vow to crack down on “aggressive tax avoidance” by examining way to collect “sales tax on e-commerce sales to Canadians by foreign-based vendors”.
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On Wednesday, Harper quickly came under fire on Twitter for raising fears of a Netflix tax when the other parties have made no such claims. “It is irresponsible of the Harper conservatives to intentionally mislead the public on this”.
