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Trudeau’s Digital Services Tax threatens taxpayers and the economy
From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Author: Jay Goldberg
In other words, Trudeau is imposing a multi-billion-dollar tax on taxpayers – at a time when 50 per cent of Canadians say they’re $200 away from not being able to pay their bills.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau managed to do two terrible things in one fell swoop: raise costs for Canadians at a time they can least afford it and risk a trade war with the United States.
The Trudeau government pushed its new Digital Services Tax through Parliament before quitting for the summer.
The government’s DST targets large foreign companies operating online marketplaces and social media platforms earning revenue from online advertising, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google and Airbnb. It is a three per cent tax on all revenue these companies generate in Canada.
Two red flags should pop up immediately for taxpayers. First, these companies won’t just eat the tax without passing costs onto consumers. And second, the United States government is sure to retaliate.
On the first point, there were clear signs that prices for Canadian consumers would increase because of this tax long before it was passed into law.
When the DST was in its proposal stage, the Parliamentary Budget Officer did an estimate of how much the government’s new tax would cost Canadians.
The PBO estimated the government’s DST would lead to an additional $7.2 billion in federal tax revenue over the next five years.
Where is that money coming from?
While major foreign companies will be the ones paying the tax directly, Canadian consumers will be hit with the bill.
It is “expected that businesses in the targeted sectors will adjust their services and prices in response to the new law,” the PBO said.
In other words, Trudeau is imposing a multi-billion-dollar tax on taxpayers – at a time when 50 per cent of Canadians say they’re $200 away from not being able to pay their bills.
Not only is Trudeau’s new DST going to increase costs for consumers, Canada also risks a trade war with the United States over the tax, which would cost Canadians even more.
In the wake of Trudeau’s DST getting through Parliament, the United States Trade Representative warned the U.S. will “do what’s necessary” to respond to the Trudeau’s new tax. USTR Katharine Tai warns she will look at “all available tools” as part of the U.S. response.
Tai’s isn’t the only voice in the U.S. calling for retaliatory action.
The Computer and Communications Industry Association, which represents tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Uber that will be targeted by Trudeau’s new tax, is calling on the Biden administration to fight back.
“With Canada’s DST now law, the time has come to announce [retaliatory] action,” said the association’s vice president, Jonathan McHale.
The president and CEO of the Tax Foundation is warning that U.S. retaliation would likely come through hiking tariffs on imports from Canada.
Given that the U.S. is by far Canada’s largest trading partner, making it more expensive to get Canadian goods into the American marketplace could have a detrimental impact on Canada’s economy, costing us both economic growth and jobs.
More than two years ago, the USTR warned against the Trudeau government taking measures that “single out American firms for taxation while effectively excluding national firms engaged in similar lines of business.”
But Trudeau chose to ignore those warnings and do exactly that.
To add insult to injury, the law authorizing the Trudeau government to bring the DST into effect (whenever it so chooses) allows it to do so retroactively, all the way back to 2022. Companies could be on the hook for huge sums for tax years in which the law didn’t even exist.
No wonder the Americans are threatening to fight back.
The bottom line is that Trudeau has put Canada in a terrible position. He is risking higher prices for Canadians and tariffs on our exports to the U.S. market, all in a lust for more cash. And the revenue the government is likely to bring in through the DST, an average of $1.4 billion a year, would be spent by this government in just one day.
It’s not too late for Trudeau to back down. Cabinet could choose not to bring the tax into force and avoid retaliation from the US.
For the good of taxpayers and the Canadian economy, Trudeau must abandon the DST.
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CBC retracts false claims about residential schools after accusing Rebel News of ‘misinformation’
From LifeSiteNews
CBC has issued a correction after falsely accused Rebel News of spreading misinformation while itself promoting the false claim that remains of Indigenous children were found in unmarked graves at residential schools.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has issued a correction after blaming Rebel News of “misinformation” while spreading false information itself.
On April 17, CBC corrected a comment from chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton who accused Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey of spreading “misinformation,” while repeating the false claim that bodies have been found in unmarked graves at Indigenous residential schools.
“Yes, there have been remains of Indigenous children found in various places across the country,” Barton falsely stated during a live broadcast following the French-language federal election leaders’ debate.
Her comment was in reference to New Democratic Leader (NDP) Jagmeet Singh refusing to answer a reporter’s question whether he would condemn the rash of church burnings and acts of vandalism across Canada.
“In this case you saw Mr. Singh, and this has been his position for some time, to refuse to answer questions,” Barton said during the live stream.
“Rebel News in particular traffics in misinformation, lack of facts, and as you heard in that question, which was woven with some truth and some things that weren’t true,” she claimed.
“Yes, there have been burnings of Christian, Catholic churches,” she admitted.
“Yes, there have been remains of Indigenous children found in various places around the country, which she misrepresented,” Barton falsely stated.
Despite mass excavations, there have still been no mass graves discovered at any residential schools across Canada, but politicians and media continue to promote the false narrative.
CBC was quickly called out for their false statement, which ironically came at the same time as accusing another media outlet of spreading “misinformation.”
However, even in their correction statement, CBC failed to mention that, to date, no human remains have been discovered.
“As CBC News has reported on multiple occasions, what several Indigenous communities across Canada have discovered on the sites of some former residential schools are potential burial sites or unmarked graves,” the statement read.
However, CBC is now well known for pushing the false narrative that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some of the schools. As a consequence of that false narrative, since 2021, over 100 churches have been burned or vandalized across Canada in seeming retribution.
Indeed, in addition to perpetuating the “mass graves” narrative, media and politicians have even threatened to punish those who oppose it. In October 2024, CBC ran a story which suggested that “residential school denialism” should be criminalized.
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Climate zealots tell us the end is near. It’s the era of “global BOILING!” says the UN Secretary General. Climate alarmists say the Arctic will soon be ice-free and cities will be underwater! But what do the facts say?
The facts say that the climate change fanatics’ catastrophic claims are wrong.
In this video and the next, we’ll debunk 7 myths about climate change.
First up: melting ice, polar bear extinction, and climate change famines.
Here are the sources for this video:
No new record low summer ice extent observed since 2012. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
Satellite data show average annual sea ice volume largely stable since 2010: https://psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp-c…
Total arctic ice mass: http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projec…
Polar Bear Estimates 1993-today: https://www.iucn-pbsg.org/wp-content/…
1981: https://portals.iucn.org/library/site…
1960s: https://www.google.com/books/edition/…
Global agricultural output: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ag…
NASA Greening study: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-faci…
Malnutrition deaths: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ma…
Coffee production: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#compare
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