Monaghan posted:

If you can max out your rrsp limit every year, you are rich, hope this helps.

Postess with the Mostest posted:

Same here, just a regular guy who maxes RRSP, tuition credits and sets up a very common family trust corp to dividend out income to family members and evenly distribute lifetime capital gains exemptions from sale of capital. Who we really need to target are the rich people with mansions and fancy cars and chinese accents.

Subjunctive posted:

Do you mean max out the 25K limit ($140K income or so IIRC), or max out the personal limit of 18% of income?

cowofwar posted:

Hi Justin Trudeau I would like to know how you're going to help average middle class people like us who have problems like figuring out the tax implications of dual citizenship and multi million dollar real estate holdings in NYC combined with a $500,000 family income?

McGavin posted:

You're saying this like housing isn't most of the economy.

Hexigrammus posted:

Old school. The future is in tulips. Get in on the ground floor now!

cowofwar posted:

No man the future is coal, Nova Scotia plans to still burn it in 2030 and Ottawa has committed to subsidizing that activity.

ocrumsprug posted:

That is only 13 years from now, so unless they are already planning/building alternatives, expect that date to get pushed back.

Subjunctive posted:

No, they're planning to burn it still in 2030 and indefinitely afterwards, not that they're planning to stop burning it in 2030.

DariusLikewise posted:

In today's Manitoba throne speech the PC party promised to pass a law limiting wage increases for unionized public sector employees, this will end well.

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Jason Kenney’s leadership campaign has been hit with a $5,000 fine for flouting the rules at last week’s Progressive Conservative delegate selection meeting in Edmonton-Ellerslie.

A new delegate selection meeting has also been ordered.

In a 10-page ruling, the party’s chief returning officer, Rob Dunseith, found the Kenney campaign’s hospitality suite with free food and booze, just 15 paces from where delegates for the March leadership convention were being selected, was “precisely the type and locality of campaigning” rules were meant to prohibit.

Further, Dunseith found that Kenney, who wants to dissolve the Progressive Conservative party and unite it with Wildrose, should not have entered the Mill Woods golf course clubhouse at all.

Kenney’s presence and the suite caused a heated debate in the hallway of the building before the start of the meeting Wednesday night, and resulted in two official complaints made by the leadership campaigns of Richard Starke and Bryon Nelson.

In response to those complaints, Kenney’s campaign manager John Weissenberger questioned the clarity of the rules, which say campaigning can’t occur “in or near” the room where a delegate selection meeting is being held.

But Dunseith found the hospitality suite “was obviously meant to sway voters, or reinforce their resolve to support Kenney delegates.”

As for Kenney entering the club house, Dunseith agreed with Weissenberger that “what constitutes ‘near’ is open for debate.”

It’s all about context, he said — being near enough to catch a baby is very different from being too near to an atomic explosion — but concluded “that context is not difficult here.”

Kenney was walking among delegates waiting to attend the meeting, he found; delegates who were entitled to vote “without being subject to last-minute campaigning or pressure.”

All four candidates in the PC leadership battle have put up a $20,000 good behaviour bond.

While Dunseith found Kenney’s breach wasn’t serious enough to warrant full forfeiture of that cash, he noted two “aggravating factors” in recommending a $5,000 fine.

First, comments of Kenney organizer Alan Hallman who, when warned that his campaign would risk a fine if the candidate came into proximity of the meeting, said the campaign could afford it.

There was also the “‘inescapable appearance” that Kenney’s campaign decided to test the boundaries of the campaign rules rather than asking for guidance around their specific plans for the evening.

Dunseith recommended that a portion of the fine be used to defray the costs of a second delegate selection meeting.

All 15 of the delegates selected at the last meeting, along with the five alternates, were aligned with the Kenney camp.

cowofwar posted:

No man the future is coal, Nova Scotia plans to still burn it in 2030 and Ottawa has committed to subsidizing that activity.

Dolash posted:

Just thought I'd tear myself away from the Trump tire fire to ask the experts in this thread when our inevitable far-right disaster is coming. America is Trump, Britain has Brexit and probably permanent Tory rule, France is about to elect Le Pen, where should I be watching for the far-right nationalist-populist-racist wave to make landfall here? Or will we not need our own when Trump annexes Canada after Trudeau throws shade at him on Twitter?

Trudeau might be an insubstantial neo-liberal (I mean I assume, I'm not paying attention) but globally speaking that's beating the average by far these days.

Subjunctive posted:

No, they're planning to burn it still in 2030 and indefinitely afterwards, not that they're planning to stop burning it in 2030.

THC posted:

Canadian Fascism will occur on August 29, 1997

THC posted:

Jason Kenney is a man of utmost integrity. He is committed to rebuilding the public's trust in the Alberta Progressive Conservatives

PT6A posted:

Unlike all the other topics on which we're bravely breaking new, exciting ground daily?

Dolash posted:

Just thought I'd tear myself away from the Trump tire fire to ask the experts in this thread when our inevitable far-right disaster is coming. America is Trump, Britain has Brexit and probably permanent Tory rule, France is about to elect Le Pen, where should I be watching for the far-right nationalist-populist-racist wave to make landfall here? Or will we not need our own when Trump annexes Canada after Trudeau throws shade at him on Twitter?

Trudeau might be an insubstantial neo-liberal (I mean I assume, I'm not paying attention) but globally speaking that's beating the average by far these days.

Dolash posted:

Just thought I'd tear myself away from the Trump tire fire to ask the experts in this thread when our inevitable far-right disaster is coming. America is Trump, Britain has Brexit and probably permanent Tory rule, France is about to elect Le Pen, where should I be watching for the far-right nationalist-populist-racist wave to make landfall here? Or will we not need our own when Trump annexes Canada after Trudeau throws shade at him on Twitter?

Trudeau might be an insubstantial neo-liberal (I mean I assume, I'm not paying attention) but globally speaking that's beating the average by far these days.

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Spike in interest rates could trigger housing crash: CMHC

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. stress tested remote scenarios based on extreme examples, including a U.S.-style housing correction, to demonstrate that CMHC has the capital requirements to weather a serious financial storm.

Mississauga News
By Tess Kalinowski

A severe global economic depression could cut Canadian housing prices by 25 per cent and push unemployment to 13.5 per cent, according to stress testing done by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC).

But the federal housing agency says it could withstand the $3-billion loss it would suffer under that scenario — one of several tested to ensure CMHC’s mortgage insurance and securitization businesses can withstand a severe economic storm.

The results aren’t considered predictions or forecasts and the extreme scenarios that CMHC models “have a very remote chance of happening,” said chief risk officer Romy Bowers.

The tests demonstrate that CMHC has the capital requirements to weather a serious financial storm, said Jason Friesen of Verico Premier Mortgage Centre Inc.

“It helps pacify taxpayer risk that CMHC could collapse should any market dynamics shift at all. It really doesn’t have an immediate or direct impact on any bank decisions as they will also analyze their own exposure and risk to any serious changes to the markets,” he said.

iPolitics posted:

The EKOS poll: Are Canadians getting more racist?

iPolitics Insights

Frank Graves

Canada has been singularly successful as a multicultural nation. While Europe and America have torn themselves apart over issues of immigration and race, we’ve been lucky in avoiding strife. Our luck may be running out.

Our polling is tracking an erosion of Canadians’ openness to diversity and immigration. Much of this may be due to a looming federal election in which rhetoric about terrorism and cultural accommodation is bound to play a prominent role. Attitudes to immigration are in flux and we appear to be turning into a less open society.

Questions of race and religious dress have rarely been ballot box issues in Canada. Now, however, they appear to be the key factors behind major shifts in the voter landscape.

Canada has absorbed a large number of visible minority immigrants over the past twenty years, turning us from a largely white society with ancestry drawn from Britain and France to an extremely heterogeneous one. Initial deep reservations about immigration dropped consistently over that period as we became more diverse. The public embraced the ideal of multiculturalism; dire warnings about ethnic enclaves and a fading national identity never came true. Our research over that period shows national attachment remained very high in Canada, while ethnic identifications actually dropped.

It’s useful to remember how far apart public opinion in Canada and the United States was following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In both countries there was a sharp, immediate rise in opposition to immigration. In Canada, however, that trend soon dissipated, reaching an all-time low around 2005 — when only 25 per cent of us said there were too many immigrants and less than one in five said that too many immigrants were visible-minority. In the U.S., the level of opposition to immigration was nearly three times higher. Canada remained a nation open to the world: pro trade, pro-immigration and pro-diversity. This seemed to confer both social and economic advantages.

But something has changed.



Recent polling shows opposition to immigration has nearly doubled since 2005 and is threatening to crack the 53 per cent level we saw in 1993. Not only is opposition to immigration in general scaling heights not seen in twenty years but the number of Canadians saying we admit too many visible minorities has just cracked the 40-point ceiling for the first time ever.

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Most Canadians Say Political Correctness Has Gone 'Too Far': Angus Reid Institute Poll
The Huffington Post Canada | By Ryan Maloney

A majority of Canadians believe that political correctness infringes too much on their freedom of expression, a new poll suggests.

The numbers released Monday from the Angus Reid Institute show that 76 per cent of respondents think political correctness — loosely defined as the avoidance of certain words or actions that might offend marginalized groups — has gone "too far."

Eighty-two per cent of Canadians over the age of 55 said they shared that view, compared to 78 per cent of those between 35-54. Sixty-seven per cent of those 18-34 feel the same.

Helsing posted:

The raw materials are there but nobody's successfully put them together yet

Helsing posted:

The raw materials are there for a right-wing backlash but nobody's successfully put them together yet and there's no obvious national political figure to champion the hard right.

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A fallen government. A province in chaos. A saviour from the east.

Former Conservative MP Jason Kenney has returned to Alberta to heed the call of Destiny. With sword in hand, he has vowed to vanquish the NDP usurpers and unite the province. But much stands in his way.

In Kenney’s Quest: Episode 1, you’ll help Kenney win the leadership of the decimated Alberta PC party. Complete quests to win support from potential PC Alberta and Wildrose voters as you vanquish enemies and prove your worthiness as Alberta’s (presumptuous) leader.

Alberta has seen much darkness in recent years. Jason Kenney’s path is darker still…

Fallen Hamprince posted:

Plus the two most probable vessels for Trumpism in Canada are a university professor with the charisma of a pamphlet on STD awareness and 'the Dragon's Den guy' AKA budget Trump. I'll start getting worried when Don Cherry starts showing interest in a CPC leadership run.

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CLAM DOWN posted:

There's something wrong with his facial proportions but I can't quite figure it out.

CLAM DOWN posted:

There's something wrong with his facial proportions but I can't quite figure it out.

yellowcar posted:

too much face and not enough head

Pinterest Mom posted: