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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...
Trudeau Tax Target: Health Plans
Trudeau’s appetite for new taxes is insatiable. He won’t stop until every last dollar in your pocket has been gobbled up. The latest #TrudeauTaxTarget is employer sponsored health plans . The Liberals are looking to treat health plans as income, and tax them. Health...
Carbon Tax Trumped
Carbon Taxes will make the Canadian economy less competitive at a time when new U.S. President Donald Trump wants to ease regulatory burdens on industry and lower corporate taxes. Jobs lost in the manufacturing sector in Ontario as a result of the carbon tax on...
Trudeau Tax Target: Netflix
The Liberals are getting desperate. Their spending is so out of control, the Finance Department released a report days before Christmas projecting federal budget deficits until 2050. Two years ago under a Conservative Government that same Finance report said Canada...
Report from Parliament – January 2017
With the start of the New Year, taxpayers should rightly ask what will be left in their pockets with the new Carbon Tax that came into effect January 1st. This new Federal Carbon Tax being collected by the Toronto Liberals is in addition to the Global...
Let’s Talk Family-Run Campgrounds
This week, the Minister of Environment announced that she is holding consultations on Canada’s National Parks, under the title, “Let’s Talk Parks, Canada!”. I’d like to welcome the Minister to the conversation. I started this conversation last fall when I wrote to...