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@teririch @Prairie79778510 Pretty sure there is people that could be hired to collect that.

What???? "Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is authorizing an ex gratia payment of $1.1 million to the CRA on behalf of the City of Laval and its residents" Ottawa to cover $1.1M for unpaid taxes by disgraced mayor of Laval, Que. | CBC News share.google/Rv9OFtOJgR3oI5…

@LauraBabcock Just my opinion but I think she should make an oil deal with the US and then tell Carney she is not collecting the industrial carbon tax.

“I don’t believe for one second Danielle Smith is being dragged around by bunch of losers in cowboy hats. I believe that she wants to be part of Trump’s MAGA fucking universe and she’s trying to make that happen!” 🇨🇦 OShow Scandal Panel youtu.be/VlvYY0X5Afc?si… #Ableg #Cndpoli

@jimmathesonnhl That’s the kind of GM the Oilers need. It seems there is many that can just continually get out of jail free, while the Oilers sit on every mistake they have made for years.

theory is teams will pounce on salary-cap squeezed Vegas with an offer sheet on Pavol Dorofiev this summer and they should for Jason Robertson type shooter but Vegas will find way to match. They will move Adin Hill’s $6.25m somehow and Hertl’s $6.75m, even with lots of term left

@MarkJCarney When you have to just continually arrest the same people over and over and over because the activist judges just let them back out, you need more officers!

Les Canadiens méritent d’être en sécurité dans leur communauté. C’est pourquoi nous embauchons 1 000 nouveaux agents de la GRC — et offrons aux forces de l’ordre les outils et le soutien dont elles ont besoin pour protéger nos quartiers.

@CanadianModera1 A dislike of Ottawa is how small movements gain power.

How did the fringe gain so much power in Alberta? Anti-vaxers, convoy bros, separatists, anti-immigration zealots, and pro-Trumpers are pushing UCP priorities. How did we allow a small minority to hijack the mainstream agenda and bring this chaos? #AbLeg #AbPoli

@terry_truchan @ABDanielleSmith Wrong, what company in their right mind is going to invest in a country with an industrial carbon tax. Maybe independence brings the investment. Maybe she has had these conversations.

Fife is right! Smith & Carney made a deal for more pipelines DEPENDENT on AB securing private capital to pay for them What company in their right mind is going invest billions while @ABDanielleSmith cowers to the separatists in her party? #abpoli #cdnpoli

@jimmathesonnhl I think the Oilers need that strong, no BS personality. I have said for a while they need Torts but looks like Torts is doing just fine now.

One coach Oilers should talk to is Patrick Roy

@winnie612744 @mario4thenorth Mark Carney is not really successful for the education he has, especially compared to many economists with much less education.

@mario4thenorth Hate to tell you Mario, but no one cares about your daft warnings of economic indicators. You are a failed businessman not a globally respected economist.

Two years ago, I was actively warning everyone that our GDP/capita was going down because of a brain drain. We’re losing our top performers. It’s like losing the smartest kids in the class, and the class average dropping. We educate them. And they move to America. This includes immigrants that are incredibly intelligent & highly skilled. The TD “silent brain drain” report confirmed this. I’ve heard from so many Canadians who do not care & would rather pay the exit tax and just leave. Others who don’t know it exists nor care, they are leaving regardless. How will Canada enforce what assets they held or audit them if they don’t know they left? Our government doesn’t even know when temporary residents leave. This is how pathetic our government is. They create the problem. Overtax you. Create the incentive for you to leave. Then they try to hand you the biggest tax bill of your life on the way out. And if you stay here and die, they’ll tax that too. It’s all pathetic - and they created this exodus. And the environment for us to continue to decline. Carney is an intelligent person but he doesn’t have the appetite for risk to disrupt our taxation system that needs a complete overhaul to reverse this. Remember, when we lose half of the top 1%, it lowers our tax base. And the top 20% of tax earners contribute nearly 2/3rds of all personal income taxes. Which means it lowers the services we can provide to those who actually need it most. We are in a downward spiral. Corporate welfare and handouts cannot save us from this. Carney has zero plan to reverse it.

@avilewis @SethDKlein The whole world is abandoning government climate action. It’s really just about redistributing wealth from corporations to bureaucrats and their friends anyway. It’s become the most corrupt activity of our time.

Memo to the global community: Canada has officially abandoned climate action. PM Carney has systematically dismantled all the insufficient policy we had in place. A clear-eyed and devastating piece by my brother, @SethDKlein. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@jkenney @WBrettWilson Alberta should just move its accounts offshore.

Our message, simply asking for a fair share of what Alberta generated & sent to Ottawa, is being ignored. That’s why we will be holding a referendum to scrap equalization from the Constitution in Oct 2021. Albertans demand a fair deal from Ottawa - we won't give up that fight.

Alberta has contributed $600 billion+ to the rest of Canada since 1967. The last 10 years, more than $200 billion - or $20 billion+ per year. And yet, in the last five years, Alberta has experienced a period of prolonged economic stagnation & decline. alberta.ca/announcements.…

@GasPriceWizard Canadians are apparently comfortable being mediocre. That’s why the people that want to be successful are fleeing to the U.S. It’s mind boggling.

And to think, Canadians voted Liberal/NDP to demolish their quality of life 3 times and capped it off with voting for more of the same, claiming their first 3 misadventures on the Orange Man

@kinsellawarren I don’t even care about Canada anymore, you can’t make people want to be successful if they are comfortable being mediocre. That is the battle between Alberta and Canada.

Carney calls Alberta essential to Canada as province faces separation referendum theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

@terrynewman These are the kids that can’t cut it in real jobs.

Unfortunately, too many Canadians are operating under the assumption that our government is actually managing important things. In actuality, we're being governed by the cool kids in university who just happened to choose politics as a career path instead of real estate.

@USAmbCanada You shouod just go to the social media and streaming sites and just have them shut Canada off. There would be a revolt.

CRTC’s decision to triple the tax rate on leading streaming services is making a bad situation worse. CRTC is targeting and taxing U.S. companies, putting up new, discriminatory trade barriers, and worsening the investment climate for American businesses.

@Doug_YYC @kinsellawarren I disagree. Canada has taken jobs and opportunity to thrive from Alberta. They have a right to be angry, some of the anger may be misguided but they still have a right to be angry.

Living in Alberta is mentally exhausting. I love this province but there is so much hate & division that exists here now and I don’t like it. Whether it’s targeting minorities, Canada, or our neighbours, it has to stop. Canada didn’t lose its way, Alberta did. #cdnpoli #ableg

@susan_anne19571 @JackDan110 I don’t like A & W, it’s more of a light to medium roast and doesn’t have enough flavour for me.

@JackDan110 Even better is A and W.

You know who has better coffee than Tim Hortons? McDonalds.

@JeromyYYC There is also a message that needs to be sent to Ottawa. I think it carries more weight coming from citizens than it does from government.

Voting on whether to have a vote is a ridiculous lack of provincial leadership. Calgary is a globally connected city. Separation uncertainty is costing us jobs. We have real work to do: building homes, improving public safety, fixing infrastructure, growing our economy, and making life better.

@MPelletierCIO I’m going to be honest, I keep reading these reports so I started looking at jobs down there. The prospects sure look good down there. Now to talk the family into going.

TD report on CANADA's BRAIN DRAIN is really interesting. Canada is quietly losing its top talent to the United States in what economists call a silent brain drain. While Canada does a strong job educating highly skilled workers in STEM, engineering, and entrepreneurship, it struggles to keep them due to higher taxes that kick in at much lower income levels, limited opportunities to scale companies, weaker commercialization of ideas, and much better pay and growth potential south of the border. -> Talent leaves mainly through temporary US work visas rather than permanent moves -> Outflows are heavily concentrated among the highest skilled, especially in tech and advanced degrees -> Onward migration is worst among immigrants and top university graduates -> Canada has a missing middle of medium sized firms, relying instead on many tiny businesses and a few large ones -> Personal tax rates often exceed 50 percent in major provinces and apply at much lower thresholds than in the US -> Complex corporate tax rules push entrepreneurs toward tax planning instead of growth All of this weakens productivity, innovation, and domestic returns on education, making Canada a feeder system for the US economy REPORT: economics.td.com/ca-silent-brai…

@EScrimshaw Canada is the oddest place on earth. Filled with people who don’t want to be successful and they look down on the few provinces where the people actually do want to be successful.

If you only love your country when the rest of the country gives you exactly what you want with no pushback, you don’t love your country The 14 MPs are, in my mind, wrong, but the only coward is the person giving in to separatists instead of standing for Canada

@mario4thenorth @K4C When the money is dirty, the method of recovering it can be as well. Just hire someone to get the rest of it.

INSANE A corrupt mayor in Laval stole millions from his city. He pleaded guilty in 2016. $7M was recovered from his Swiss bank account. The CRA then sent a $1 million bill for unpaid taxes. Now Ottawa is paying that bill with federal tax dollars. Our taxes are paying the tax on the money a corrupt mayor stole. And the Minister of Finance authorized this.