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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Your tax dollars well spent to oppress those who have an alternate opinion

How the Harper government is spending $13.4M to attack charitable groups

“The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies in Halifax has not responded to questions.”

That nugget was nested in the last line, last paragraph of a Globe and Mail story last week about the Harper government’s efforts to “intimidate, muzzle and silence its critics.”

Ottawa is spending $13.4 million so its tax auditors can descend, locust-like, on charitable groups not in lockstep with Stephen Harper’s world view, searching for real or imagined evidence they’re devoting more than 10 per cent of their resources to political advocacy.

http://metronews.ca/voices/urban-compass-halifax/1161928/how-the-harper-government-is-spending-13-4-million-to-attack-charitable-groups/

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