Aisha (Asia) Vance-Cuthbert

A pleasure to meet with President Xi in Beijing. Canada and China are forging a new strategic partnership. We’re leveraging our strengths — focusing on trade, energy, agriculture, seafood, and other areas where we can make massive gains for both our peoples.

Today, the Deputy Speaker presiding over the Budget Statement in the UK House of Commons is Nus Ghani. Nus Ghani was born in Kashmir, Pakistan. There should not be a single person born in Pakistan in the UK House of Commons.

Is this the biggest political own-goal in history? I’ve just come off a call with a founder who’ll sell his business for £150 million next year. He’s now taken the decision to relocate overseas prior to the completion of the sale. He’s moved from the acceptance of paying 20% capital gains tax on the sale proceeds, through the possibility of paying 39% and has now concluded that he can avoid paying anything at all. As a result, HMRC will lose a minimum of £30 million (assuming rates remain unchanged) in tax receipts. And that’s just one transaction. This is the Laffer Curve playing out in real time. I’m currently receiving multiple calls and emails from other founders exploring exactly the same idea. Whatever your political views are, this has been a disastrous PR exercise from the government. In business and the economy, confidence is everything. It’s going to take a long time to turn this sentiment around.

Whan an incredibly close BC election wow. We will know final results on October 28th and there is a chance that there will be another election right away. The Conservatives have done so well and everyone should be proud of their work. Could they have done and campaigned better? Absolutely but just look at this map. We just have to many Canadians who just have no ambitions to having a better community, a better country. NDP got voted in the areas with some of the highest homeless, tent filled areas, crime and drugs everywhere. Pure irrational.