the Walnut Diary

260 business leaders and philanthropists this week lined up against Finance Minister Bill Morneau with a blunt message I chose to paraphrase as follows:  “If you don’t help us cheat, we’ll vote with our feet!”  Sorry, Guys.  Stephen Harper was your man.  Canadians voted him out.

On this issue I’m solidly on the Government’s side.  Going after tax cheats was my main condition for supporting Trudeau and company.  It takes guts to annoy accountants, lawyers, government contractors and the like, but I spent 32 years getting at best 58% of my salary while funding my own course work and home office, while the various people around me breezed through life with deductions or corporate funding for professional development sessions at family resorts, home offices, boats belonging to their corporations, and finding creative vacation deductions, protected from audit by their accountants.

If you read the petition, they even call themselves “job creators.”  That term was one of Harper’s most egregious assaults on the language, right up there with the time he called members of  an Opposition coalition “traitors.”

Stephen Lewis’s term for the same group Harper called “Job Creators?”  “Corporate Welfare Bums.”