Weighing in on the tax policy issue a bit, I was at the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce budget lunch yesterday. Minister Toews very proudly said: "If we were to overlay the second most tax competitive jurisdiction- Ontario by the way- if I were to overlay their tax structure over our revenue system, I would be taking in 20 billion more dollars per year."
I was definitely not the only person who looked around the room and thought, well why the #### not claim at least 10 billion of that? We can still be the most competitive without leaving all of this #### on the table. We could reinvest in ourselves!
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