Wake up folks: nobody with power gives a fuck about you.

[Dragonfli]

139. We need to follow your advice, I agree with you, Your Guy leads by example

An example that is very PRAGMATIC.

This is the way it should be here (just as it is in your ideal):

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmlw2011/W410142.HTM

Overview of Bill C-13

Micro-Targeting Election Promises

Part 1 -- contains many of the promises the Harper government made as part of its micro-targeting strategy used to entice specific people in particular ridings to vote for it, so as to win a majority. These include income tax measures that are supposedly aimed at helping families with children or who are caring for a dependant. Examples include the Children's Arts Tax Credit, the Volunteer Firefighter Tax Credit, changes to the medical expense tax credit for families caring for a loved one and changes to the Child Tax Benefit. These measures were used during the election to cover up the demand of the people for governments to do their duty to provide people's right to health care, education and housing with a guarantee, and instead use the tax system to push the notion that families, not the society, are responsible for the well-being of individuals.

Pay-the-Rich Schemes

Part 1 -- includes various schemes to pay the rich:

- "extend to the end of 2013 the temporary accelerated capital cost allowance treatment for investment in machinery and equipment in the manufacturing and processing sector;"
- "expand eligibility for the accelerated capital cost allowance for clean energy generation and conservation equipment;"
- "extend eligibility for the mineral exploration tax credit by one year to flow-through share agreements entered into before March 31, 2012;"
- " expand the eligibility rules for qualifying environmental trusts;"
- "amend the deduction rates for intangible capital costs in the oil sands sector;"
- "introduce rules to limit tax deferral opportunities for corporations with significant interests in partnerships;"

Pension and Employment Law

Part 1 -- hidden amongst the changes to income tax law pointed out above, are changes to the pension system, in particular measures dealing with shifting underfunded pension funds to Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) when employers declare bankruptcy. It also introduces "anti-avoidance rules" for RRSPs and registered retirement income funds; and rules to limit tax deferral opportunities for individual pension plans.

Part 11 -- amends the Wage Earner Protection Program Act to "extend in certain circumstances the period during which wages earned by individuals but not paid to them by their employers who are bankrupt or subject to receivership may be the subject of a payment under that Act."

Part 12 -- amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to "repeal certain provisions that provide for mandatory retirement. It also amends the Canada Labour Code to repeal a provision that denies employees the right to severance pay for involuntary termination if they are entitled to a pension. Finally, it amends the Conflict of Interest Act."

Part 14 -- provides for the retroactive coming into force of section 9 of the Nordion and Theratronics Divestiture Authorization Act "in order to ensure the validity of pension regulations made under that section."

Part 15 -- amends the Canada Pension Plan to include amounts received by an employee under an employer-funded disability plan in contributory salary and wages.

Part 19 -- amends the Special Retirement Arrangements Act to "permit the reservation of pension contributions from any benefit that is or becomes payable to a person. It also deems certain provisions of An Act to amend certain Acts in relation to pensions and to enact the Special Retirement Arrangements Act and the Pension Benefits Division Act to have come into force on December 14 or 15, 1994, as the case may be."

Part 8 -- amends Part IV of the Employment Insurance Act to provide a temporary measure to refund a portion of employer premiums for small business. An employer whose premiums were $10,000 or less in 2010 will be refunded the increase in 2011 premiums over those paid in 2010, to a maximum of $1,000.

Part 17 -- amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Act to include a definition of dependant and to provide express regulation-making authority for the provision of certain benefits in non-institutional locations.

Part 22 -- amends the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act to change the residency requirements of certain commissioners.

Foreign Investment and Establishment of One National Securities Regulator

Part 10 -- amends the Canadian Securities Regulation Regime Transition Office Act so that funding for the Canadian Securities Regulation Regime Transition Office may be fixed through an appropriation act.

International Trade Relations

Part 2 - amends the Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act, 2006 in light of a ruling against Canada based on a U.S. Trade Representative Challenge in January under International Trade Law relating to Canada's softwood lumber industry.

Parts 3 and 4 -- amend Canada's tariff regime. The legislation contains 411 pages of specific technical changes to the tarriff regime on a country-by-country and item-by-item basis.

Election Law

Part 18 -- amends the Canada Elections Act to phase out quarterly allowances to registered parties.

Judicial Appointments

Part 13 -- amends the Judges Act to permit the appointment of two additional judges to the Nunavut Court of Justice.

Education

Parts 5, 6 and 7 -- relate to changes to the national system of student loans that facilitate students going further into debt in order to pay for post-secondary education. The legislation also includes providing more powers to the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development to forgive certain portions of student loans for various medical professionals if they work in a "under-served rural or remote community."

Federal Control Over Provincial and Municipal Jurisdictions

Part 1 -- includes measures to align the tax treatment to investments made under the Agri-Québec program with that of investments under AgriInvest.

Part 9 -- provides for payments to be made to provinces, territories, municipalities, First Nations and other entities for municipal infrastructure improvements.

Part 21 -- amends the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act to clarify the legislative framework pertaining to payments under tax agreements entered into with provinces under Part III.1 of that Act.


I am glad you are taking this act on the road here, we need the sanity that only you and Harper can provide !
Luckily, the Third Way Democrats will help- to bring the cleansing air of neo-liberalism to the US in a VERY similar manner.