Green Party MP Mike Morrice looks on as Leader Elizabeth May speaks while holding up a copy of a public security report during a news conference, in Ottawa, on June 11.
We are not experiencing lower food prices, for example. Justin Trudeau may try to blame grocers, but I believe his government’s profligate spending and environmental policies have contributed to significantly higher costs for suppliers. The damage is done, but may get worse over the next 16 months of this Liberal tenure. If Mr. Trudeau truly cares about citizens and small business, he should step down.My sales are generally low margin and high risk, so he advised me to incorporate. Although the costs of doing so were much higher, this acted like insurance so that my growing family and I would not be personally wiped out due to unforeseen circumstances.
As a letter-writer said, many people will likely have a hard time paying more tax on “quaint and simple inherited family cottages.” However they should compare themselves, and what they so fortunately have, to a growing number of people who cannot or never be able to afford to pay rent or own a home.Capital gains for an individual are realized on the day they die.
Developers don’t have hidden reserves of profitability. They have lived on thin margins and abundant cheap debt, which is mostly gone now. New supply, then, will not emerge at below the cost of production.