The Hub Reacts to the 2024 federal budget
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled a federal budget yesterday that she insisted will deliver “fairness for every generation.”
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled a federal budget yesterday that she insisted will deliver “fairness for every generation.”
From the perspective of getting the underlying structure of Canada’s tax system right, increasing capital gains taxes made good sense.
The Trudeau government has driven up government spending so high using deficit financing that it’s now saying we need to raise taxes in order to pay for its higher public expenditures.
The budget comes in the midst of horrendous polling numbers for the Trudeau government. Through this fiscal blueprint, the Liberals are desperately trying to gain some of those potential voters back.
It’s no secret that it will be a big spending budget that will probably hit relatively upper-income earners and corporations with higher taxes while never targeting a balanced budget.
Tories of all shades of blue descended on Ottawa for three days of hobnobbing, celebrations, campaign training, and substantive policy panel discussions at the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference.
Nellie McClung, suffragette, journalist, reformer (i.e. disturber par excellence), was instrumental to getting women declared “persons” by the Supreme Court in 1928.
The top stories from this past week include Justin Trudeau’s testimony before the foreign interference inquiry commission, the gathering of conservatives in Ottawa for the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference, and the big things we’ve learned as The Hub turns three.
The real age of obscurity and confusion is our own, and you will find no better proof of this than the works of Judith Butler. She is one of the most influential academics in the world, though very few people have read her work.
The Roundtable discusses the foreign interference inquiry, the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference, and what we have learned over the past year as The Hub turns three.
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