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A fair deal for natives
The concept is simple: Governments receive financial benefits, in the forms of royalties, from companies developing natural resources. The governments, in turn, allocate a portion of the resource revenues to one or more First Nations. In this way, First Nations become beneficiaries of economic development on their traditional territories… National Chief Bellegarde is right to point to prosperity sharing as the foundation for a new and lasting relationship between Aboriginal people and the rest of Canada.
Tags: budget, economy, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Child welfare system rigged against black families
A discriminatory child welfare framework exists that penalizes African Canadian families living in poverty — suggesting that parents who work multiple part-time jobs are unfit parents… racism has resulted in the disproportionate levels of African Canadian child welfare apprehensions and cross-cultural foster care placements… It is now time to create structures within the existing system to analyze and address repeated problems experienced by African Canadian children in child welfare.
Tags: child care, ideology, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, youth
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Why are so many black children in foster and group homes?
Poverty, inadequate housing, language barriers and poor education aggravate the power imbalance these families experience… A recent report on child poverty in Toronto co-authored by the agency noted that 41 per cent of children of southern and eastern African heritage are growing up poor — more than three times the rate of children with roots in the British Isles. Meantime, 26 per cent of children whose families are from the Caribbean and 25 per cent from North Africa live in poverty.
Tags: child care, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, youth
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How much is Canada losing to overseas tax evasion?
An analysis of the difference between what is owed in taxes and what is actually collected would provide a means of measuring the CRA’s performance and the scale of overseas tax evasion. The CRA, however, has blocked any attempt by the PBO to acquire the necessary information… Not only does the government not want to estimate the tax gap, it doesn’t want anyone else to try to do it, either.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, globalization, ideology, tax
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Fair taxation needed to curb growth of inequality
[Milligan] does not take into account the societal cost of pollution, the revenue imbalance between governments, or the ever-expanding agglomeration of fees, user charges and levies that has sprung up outside the tax system… But… He drew a direct link between inequality and Canada’s outdated, loophole-riddled tax system. He put some good ideas on the table. And he offered the next prime minister the first draft of a road map to a fairer future.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, tax
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The problem isn’t aboriginals as Stephen Harper suggests. It’s us
We are either indifferent to the indigenous peoples or sympathetic to them. But they do not want our sympathy. They want their rights — as spelled out in the treaties between them and the Crown… What’s to be done? Stop fighting land claims and wasting hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money. The Supreme Court and lower courts have repeatedly ruled in favour of the aboriginals.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Returning to the fairness of the ‘a buck is a buck’ principle of taxation
… individuals and corporations adjust their behaviour in response to rising tax rates, whether in an economic sense (less savings, investment and work effort) or simply by taking advantage of the various avenues available to them to reduce their tax exposure, including moving to lower-tax jurisdictions… If we really want to soak the rich better to focus on closing tax preferences, which research again shows mostly benefit those with higher incomes: the small-business tax deduction, for example, or the lifetime capital gains exemption.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, tax
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Income inequality is killing thousands of Canadians every year
… a recent report by Statistics Canada highlights a preventable cause of death… which is being largely ignored. The study demonstrates that income inequality is associated with the premature death of 40,000 Canadians a year…. a poor male has a 67 per cent greater chance of dying each year and a poor woman has a 52 per cent greater chance than their wealthy counterparts.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology
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U.S. income gap a danger to Canada: TD
… the gap between high and low incomes in Canada was relatively stable through the 1970s and 1980s. That changed in the 1990s when governments began cutting transfer payments and support for low-income earners as they tried to cut deficits and balance the books. But when governments found themselves back in surpluses, the policies they put in place didn’t reverse the growing gap between rich and poor
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Robert Reich and the fight against inequality
… the three-decade span between the late 1940s and the late 1970s — was characterized by high rates of taxation on the wealthy; heavy government investment in the people; and the peak level of unionization in America’s private-sector workforce.
In… Inequality for All , Reich offers a personal narrative of the causes and ills of income inequality. The film is a blueprint of the practical steps by which North America can correct the economically and socially debilitating tilt toward the wealthy.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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