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Can the Pop Tax
The Sugar Tax Lobby is hard at work trying to convince the Liberal Government to bring in a 20% tax on sugar sweetened beverages. According to the Lobbyist Registry, since November the Sugar Tax Lobby has met with Members of Parliament, Ministers and their staff 127...
The Most Important Thing I Heard At the NATO-PA Conference
Canada is not exempt from the commitment to spend 2% of our GDP on defence. That was the message I heard repeatedly at a recent meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels, Belgium. Meeting with the President of the NATO-PA, the U.S. Vice President, Mike...
Where’d the money go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGWS9-ElVI Ottawa, ON - I am asking the Government where over $800 million dollars disappeared to, when it should have gone to Municipalities, for equal distribution through the Federal Gas Tax Fund administered by the Association of...
Congratulations to Melissa Bishop on being Named to the CAAWS Most Influential List 2016, Women in Sport
International Women’s Day - Cheryl Gallant, MP Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, is pleased to congratulate local Olympian Melissa Bishop on being named by the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS) to the 2016 Most...
Trudeau Tax Target: Women Entrepreneurs
Recent changes to the reporting of the sale of the family home will single out female entrepreneurs. For example, Mothers who choose to stay at home with their children by operating a daycare now must worry if they are the Liberal government’s latest tax target. For...
Trudeau Tax Target: Your Home
The Trudeau Liberals announced that you now have to report the sale of your home on your income tax return. Up until now when you sell your ‘primary residence’, you didn't have to pay any taxes on the money you may have made. We’ve always had this tax exemption, and...
Wrong for Federal Government to Use Gender in Assessing Veteran’s Benefit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcZ7Eteu_Jk The decision by the liberal government to not compensate a Veteran for an injury sustained while on duty on the basis of gender is just plain wrong. What was particularly distressing to the Veteran was the nonsensical answer...
The Prime Minister and “Fake Promises”
Last year’s Federal Budget promised to transfer uncommitted funds from Conservative infrastructure programs through the Gas Tax Fund directly to local governments. This has turned out to be a fake promise. Of the many accomplishments of the Conservatives in...
Cheryl Gallant Questions Treatment of Afghanistan Veteran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC5SYjsBtE Cheryl Gallant, MP Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, is questioning the treatment of an Afghanistan Veteran, after the soldier was told by the Liberal Government the problems he is having is because he is getting old and his body...
Trudeau Tax Target: Serving Soldiers
Canadian soldiers are on the front lines in the Middle East in the International War Against Terrorism. While I believe our soldiers are first class, they are getting second class treatment from a Prime Minister who devalues the dangers they face every day. All other...
Cheryl Gallant Congratulates Martina Witt, Daughter of the Vote
I am pleased to recognize local student, Martina Witt, for being chosen for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, from one of over 1500 applicants, to represent each of Canada’s 338 ridings as a “daughter of the vote. The goal of Daughters of the Vote is to advance gender...
Collaboration Brings Funding to Horton and McNab/Braeside
I recently met with local officials at Fraser Road, on the border of Horton and McNab/Braeside Townships, to see the upgrades needing to be done, and announce $90,482 in funding from the federal Canada 150 Fund. This grant represents the true nature of the people of...
Trudeau Tax Target: Soft Drinks
Just when you thought it was safe to take out your wallet, here comes Trudeau with another tax. First it was the internet tax. Then we learned about their plan for a health tax. Now to pay for Trudeau’s out-of-control deficit spending, he wants to bring in a tax on...
Cheryl Gallant Welcomes Veterans’ Affairs Ombudsman to Garrison Petawawa
I was pleased to welcome Department of Veterans’ Affairs Ombudsman Guy Parent to an evening Town Hall at Garrison Petawawa. All Veterans, military, RCMP and their families were invited. The next morning a special stakeholders, meeting took place as an open forum to...
Trudeau Tax Targets Pensioners
Trudeau's plans to tax employer sponsored health plans will be especially painful for retired Canadians on fixed incomes. Some companies still offer health benefit plans to retired employees. While more and more companies require pensioners to pay for portions of...
Will Trudeau’s Health Tax Hammer You?
Trudeau’s scheme to tax employer sponsored health plans will disproportionately harm small businesses. Trudeau has never been a fan of small business. He attacked them during the election. He cancelled planned cuts to the small business tax rate, and tells some...
Trudeau Wants to Tax You Blind
The short-sighted decision by the Toronto Liberals to cut eye exams from OHIP for adults aged 20 to 64 led to an increase in blindness among Ontario residents. Blinded by ever increasing budget deficits, the move to tax employer-sponsored health plans by the Trudeau...
Cheryl Gallant Hosts Renfrew County Agricultural Producers
I was pleased to recently host representatives from the local Agricultural community. Thank-you to Renfrew County Federation of Agriculture representatives Dean Matheson and Deb Knapton; National Farmers Union Representatives Tony Straathof and Tim Tabbert; Renfrew...