"Under Stephen Harper, Ottawa today collects about $30 billion less in revenue than it did a decade ago — $43 billion if corporate taxes are included. That’s $43 billion less each year to put toward public programs like health care, education, child care and pensions — programs that Canadians demonstrably want."
Tax hikes aren’t the third rail in Canadian politics anymore
Kathleen Wynne broke a number of taboos last week, proving it’s possible to get elected premier of Canada’s largest province while being a woman, while being openly gay and — perhaps most surprising — while openly defying the right-wing orthodoxy that’s ruled this country for three decades.
It may be this last aspect of her victory that broke the most resistant taboo.
While discrimination against women and gay people has diminished in recent years, Bay Street and the corporate elite have become increasingly confident in imposing an ideology of lower taxes, smaller government and supine obedience to the market.
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/06/18/tax-hikes-arent-the-third-rail-in-canadian-politics-anymore/
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