I called up Brendan Wagner, the college communications guy, on the suspicion that this was just a re-announcement of money already promised, a favourite Conservative trick to make it seem like they are doing something. “To say vote for me or you are anti-Israel is nonsense”, said Wolofsky, a Mount Royal resident who said he is working for another candidate, but declined to say which one.
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Netflix says it’s not required to charge GST to Canadian customers because the company has no employees or assets in Canada.
During a campaign stop in Toronto on Thursday, Mulcair said the NDP have no plans to usher in a Netflix tax.
“We’re opposed to a Netflix tax”.
Harper quickly shifts gears, saying “some politicians” want to tax digital streaming services while he’s “100 per cent” against a Netflix tax. “Every time he promises not to tax something that’s actually a clue that’s something he is going to tax”. One idea was mandating online video streaming services such as Netflix to contribute into a fund that helps pay for Canadian content.
Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats would implement a pan-Canadian food strategy called “Everybody Eats” in which they lay out a number of initiatives including investing in rural communities, grow farm incomes, ensure agriculture’s sustainability, ease barriers for new farmers and support agricultural marketing boards.
“The government is inviting input from stakeholders on what actions the government should take to ensure the effective collection of sales tax on e-commerce sales to residents of Canada by foreign-based vendors”, said a paragraph from the 2014 federal budget.
In the midst of a campaign heavily focused on the economy and social services, Harper’s Netflix ad appears to come out of left field, inciting many to take the opportunity to poke fun at his attempt to connect with young people.
The Liberal government held power for more than 70 years of the 20th century, a record among democratic nations, and the Conservatives and Liberals are the only two parties to have formed a national government. But on Thursday, the province disavowed the notion. We have let Stephen Harper use publicly funded troops to serve as mercenaries for ExxonMobil, trading a “bucket of blood” for a barrel of cheap crude oil.
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In response representatives of both the NDP and Liberal party categorically deny the suggestion that their respective leaders had proposed such a tax. The unemployment rate in the early ’80s and again in the early ’90s was much higher than it has been under the Conservatives, even during the worst of the 2008 recession.
