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Ontario cracks down on underground economy, goes after tax cheats
The Ontario government says it will be cracking down on the underground economy by creating teams of specialized auditors to root out tax cheats… since 2013-14 it has collected $930 million, $330 million of which was collected in the past year, thanks to enhanced measures, including working with the Canada Revenue Agency. About $300 million was revenue owed to the province, while $630 million was due to the federal government.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology
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Our constitution is in dire need of fixing
The deepest problem is alienation of citizens from their governments… But government in Canada isn’t just big and inept. It’s inept because it’s too big, in ways our traditional constitution was designed to prevent… right now the relationship between citizens and government in Canada is upside down. We don’t control them, they control us… We can’t clean it up one sensible piece at a time because the amending formula excludes the people.
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Referendum Aside, We Need Deeper Vote Reform Consultation
Some claim the Liberals have made it clear that committee hearings will be the only consultation process… hearings alone will not amount to meaningful consultation… The committee also should undertake a “deliberative judgment” process as the “national engagement” mechanism the Liberals have promised, as it is the best practice for meaningful public consultation.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation
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Why equalization no longer works
… in 2017, Ontario could shake off its status as a “have not” province for the first time since 2009, losing almost $3 billion in equalization payments. This is not because Ontario is doing well fiscally. Rather, the resource economies of Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan are reeling. At the same time, these resource-based provinces will likely be aggrieved that the three-year weighted average calculation of fiscal capacity does not fully take account of their current financial pain
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Reverse Harper’s legacy of secrecy
… federal Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault has put forward several practical ways to fix the access to information system, including limiting the secrecy granted to cabinet documents, tighter deadlines for release of records, new sanctions for failure to disclose, and an overall presumption that information should be publicly available unless there are compelling reasons to keep it secret.
This would be a good start.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Sanders at fulcrum of debate on progressives
For most of the 20th century, left politics centred on economic justice… By the 1980s, it was clear that the right, the capitalist side, was going to “win.” Their world view would become the world’s. Many on the left made a strategic shift, from an economic focus to other issues: race, gender, human rights, identity politics… [But] if you awake each morning with a sick feeling because you’ve lost or might lose your job, your wage is declining, you have to cut back and back… it only works so far.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, pensions, standard of living
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Disability benefits dogged by arduous, outdated paperwork, auditor general finds
Canadians with terminal illnesses are waiting too long for disability pension benefits from the federal government, and those with grave conditions are being snowed under with paperwork… 20 years after vowing to assess how legislation and programs affect men and women, the federal government had made limited progress… gender-based analyses were not always complete or consistent across departments.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Time to put the Charter first in law-making
Proactive accountability and transparency measures are sorely needed to help compel our government and parliamentarians — both present and future — to honour their fundamental duty to uphold the Charter throughout the law-making process. This is why CCLA has launched a new campaign called Charter First, which calls for the reform of our legislative process such that Charter rights are prioritized and Canadians are informed about the constitutionality of proposed bills.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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When women got the vote
From our perspective, her views were just as prejudiced as her male counterparts. She worried about the negative impact “foreigners” would have on the country and could not fathom how men who could barely speak English were given the right to vote, while white Anglo women were not. Together with several other leading female members of the so-called “Famous Five” — the women who fought the Persons Case in the late 1920s, which established that women under the law were “persons” and therefore eligible for appointment to the Canadian Senate — she was an advocate for eugenics and sterilization of the “feeble-minded.”
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, women
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Ontario should clean up donations to political parties
… Ontario is long overdue for a major reform of how our political parties and election campaigns are financed. There should be much stricter controls on spending by third-party interest groups. And there should be an outright ban on political contributions from corporations and unions… It should bring Ontario in line with other governments… When it comes to running fair elections untainted by outside influence, Ontario should be a leader, not a laggard.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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