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MPs urged to demand the names of Canadians behind offshore tax shelters cbc.ca 2 hrs ago Harvey Cashore © Raphael Satter/Associated Press Beachgoers walk along a tidal causeway in the town of Peel on the Isle of Man on Monday, March 26, 2012. Five years ago, tax law expert André Lareau was blocked from giving testimony before the House of Commons finance committee by a last-minute gag order preventing witnesses from talking about a prominent accounting firms tax avo...

Article content Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem was starting down the long path to an economics PhD when interest rates breached 20 per cent in the early 1980s. Back then, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was a teenager helping out on the family farm in Alberta. Both of Canada’s key economic policy-makers would have been old enough to understand the gravity of the situation, but maybe not yet at an age that would have allowed them to feel what it was like during those years, as they w...

Opposition parties support finance committee probe Before they halted their Isle of Man probe in 2016, members of Parliament on the finance committee learned the KPMG scheme was not only marketed to ultra-rich Canadians as a way to dodge taxes, but also as a way to keep money from potential creditors. An internal KPMG document, obtained by the finance committee, showed that the accounting firm promoted their scheme as a way for their wealthy clients to "protect" their assets offshore. There ...

Save to Read Later OTTAWA - An emergency parliamentary debate that was supposed to be a forum for cross-party collaboration on better ways to combat the COVID-19 pandemic devolved Wednesday into another round of partisan finger-pointing. Green Party MP Elizabeth May arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. An emergency parliamentary debate that was supposed to be a forum for cross-party collaboration on better ways to combat the COVID-19 pandemic has devolved into ano...

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iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Apr 16, 2021 11:19am Conservative Leader Erin OToole in Ottawa in February 2018, announced his climate plan on Thursday which includes a carbon levy. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where it’s National Day of the Mushroom and National Eggs Benedict Day. The weekend brings with it National Cheese Ball Day on Saturday and National Animal Crackers Day on Sunday. Looking for a fun agriculture fact that may just...

From: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Hog producers in Prince Edward Island (PEI) have been impacted by COVID-19 outbreaks and disease control measures at processing plants, and many producers are being forced to keep hogs on-farm beyond their standard lifecycle. This has resulted in extraordinary feed and maintenance costs which have put a financial strain on their operations. Hog producers in Prince Edward Island (PEI) have been impacted by COVID-19 outbreaks and disease control measures at ...

Today, the Member of Parliament for Kings-Hants, Kody Blois, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development and Member of Parliament for Long Range Mountains, Gudie Hutchings, the Member of Parliament for Malpeque, Wayne Easter, and the Member of Parliament for Miramichi-Grand Lake, Pat Finnigan, announced details of two new programs designed to help drive innovation and market development for Canada's 4,800 chicken, turkey and egg f...

  TORONTO -- Members of a federal government committee that regulates Canadian banking say they want the big banks to provide consumers a faster avenue to shut down fraud on their accounts — or face further action. The moves come after a CTV News Toronto investigation into a widespread fake taxi scam that showed how cunning fraudsters duped Torontonians wanting to help others during the pandemic — and then exploited weaknesses in fraud detection system to make off with thousands per cas...

MONTREAL -- The Quebec government wont be overseeing its tax returns just yet. A Bloc Quebecois bill which would have allowed the province to do just that was defeated at committee on Tuesday. Liberals on the finance committee voted against all the clauses of the bill, which was introduced by Bloc MP Gabriel Ste-Marie. The Conservatives, who favoured the idea, abstained from voting. Only Bloc and New Democratic Party MPs voted in favour of the bill. Even the title of the bill was defeated...