Mitchell, Teresa
The HST’s Effect on Taxpayers The effectiveness of the HST and how it impacts consumers and taxpayers remains. Critics claim that the HST shifts the tax burden from businesses to consumers. Proponents of the HST argue that it lowers taxes. They say that the HST system reduces the cost of ...
Editorially, the opinion pages tend to be balanced with some stories leaning left, such as this: Doug Ford’s ‘efficiencies’ seem to be costing taxpayers an awful lot of money: Robyn Urback and right-leaning: Why low-income earners should actually welcome Ontario’s reversal on rent control...
” and without a particular commitment from the premier to local consultation and appropriateness, the Region will be without its strongest voice during this new and frightening era in Ontario municipal politics.
As a democratic federation, political power in Canada is decentralized and divided between the federal level on the one hand and the provincial and territorial levels on the other. From this point onward, the term “the government” refers exclusively to the current federal government of Canada le...