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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Well if he was targeting CPC supporters who were going to vote for him anyways, success. If he was going after normal Canadians, the vast majority of the response from them has either been mockery or puzzlement that this is even an issue. This likely nets zero votes to the CPC and more than likely costs them a few votes from people puzzled that this is an issue being taken seriously given the array of other issues Canada currently faces. It's somewhere on the list around 765 in terms of issues Canadians care about.
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You're projecting.
"Taxation of Netflix" may be around 765 in terms of issues.
"Taxation" is going to be top three.
The question is how many people are going look at the former, and think "this is absurd", and how many are going to look at the latter, and be concerned. Between you and me, I don't put a lot of stock into the attention span of "normal Canadians".
Slava does make a good point about the validity of taxation of such services and underlying issues of e-commerce, but those issues will have to remain under the table since nobody else could bring them up without seeming in favour of more taxation.
IMO, this little sideshow is probably the opening salvo of a much larger battle plan. I think we can expect Harper to spend a lot of time over the next 70 days talking about all the things Mulcair (and Trudeau, if he stays relevant) plans to tax. His shots on Wynne and Notley's refusal to release a budget before this election follow the same pattern. "These people plan to take your money for their own aims" is the message.
Question is, how will it resonate against the messages Trudeau and Mulcair will be making?