Ottawa EI slush fund and payroll tax rage airs views
Victor Vrsnik of the Manitoba Taxpayers Association rips Ottawa over a $15 billion EI surplus projected to grow to $20 billion. He urges lowering premiums, reforming CPp hikes, and returning surplus via tax cuts or credits to workers and small employers. He cites bracket creep and hidden taxes as stifling job growth.
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Mike Harris
T Hat
Paul Martin
EI Fund
CPP
Martin
Ontario
Ottawa
Canada
KPMG
Subsidy War Shifts Prairie Agriculture and Canadian Wheat Board
The article argues the US and EC subsidy conflict raises domestic prices and prompts calls to end the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly. It notes Canada, facing higher export competition and shifting crops, risks being targeted as grain markets close in on trade talks. It warns farmers to resist renewed subsidy-driven policies.
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Prairie
Canadian Wheat Board
Unity at risk as haters clash in Ottawa hospital row
A heated Ottawa hall scene over administrator David Levine highlights fraying Canadian unity. The writer admires Levine, a McGill trained anglophone with French study, as a bridge between cultures while warning that anti Quebec sentiment and partisan hatred threaten national cohesion.
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Ottawa
David Levine
Neepawa Press
Boissevain
Wolfe
Montcalm
Canada
Plains of Abraham
Alberta
Alberta Command
Royal Canadian Legion
Medicine Hat
Legion
Dave Levine
London
University de Montreal
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