"Goodale said he was aware that some people see the Green Shift as a tax grab, but said emphatically that it is not.
"In fact, it reduces more taxes than what we collect in the form of the carbon levy. This goes directly into people's pocketbooks.
"Every Saskatchewan taxpayer will get a tax cut, and a very significant one."
Of the estimated $3 billion Green Shift will cost Saskatchewan taxpayers, not including the loss of jobs and damage to the economy, Goodale claims that we would save more than that in taxes?
Prove it! (The problem with journalists is that they don't ask for the numbers.)
As an aside, does anyone else find it odd that the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce invites a Liberal MP to speak to their luncheon when, if implemented, Green Shift will destroy the provincial economy and every business person in that room?
This is the same brilliant mindset that invited former NDP Minister Dwain Lingenfelter speak, not once but twice, to the North Saskatoon Business Association. Lingenfelter who regularly attends NDP conventions, is a potential candidate for the provincial NDP leadership. The CCF/NDP once vowed to "eradicate capitalism" in the Regina Manifesto, a document that is still proudly displayed on the current NDP website.
And the NSBA allows Lingefelter to use them as a forum?
The fact that these two "business groups" invite people that represent organizations that would destroy them for political gain, proves that they are both absolutely irrelevant when protecting or promoting the needs of Saskatchewan business.
The respective members of these two groups should either vote out both boards, or choke them off financially by refusing to support them any longer until they once again become business friendly and politically savvy.
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The NSBA invites individuals from all political parties to speak at their functions. The political reality is that federally the Liberals do have a chance at forming government and the same for the NDP provincially. So it makes sense for the NSBA to have its membership hear from individuals whose decisions if in government will affect members of the NSBA.
Thanks for your message, anonymous.
The NSBA, and the Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce, when it comes to representing the views of business are an annoyance at best, and incompetent at worst.
Those organizations exist to promote their member's interests, and those interests are the advancement of business.
Allowing enemies of business to speak is referred to in philosophical terms as giving them "the sanction of the victim".
The NDP still have the Regina Manifesto on their website, which calls for the "eradication of capitalism" and tried to implement the "Most Available Hours" legislation under the most recent Calvert government. The Liberals have all but admitted the Green Shift is a wealth transfer plan with an estimated $3 billion of new taxes to Saskatchewan alone.
How many business leaders or Conservative MP's have spoken at an SFL function? Don't they have to work with whatever government is in power? Why don't they play both sides of the fence. My suspicion is because the SFL know what their mission and values are.
Allowing individuals from the provincial NDP and now the federal Liberals to use their organizations as soapboxes when either one of those individuals would destroy every one of those member's businesses if it were politically expedient is an abdication of the missions for which they are elected.
To paraphrase, if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
In our opinion, the boards of those two respect organizations should be voted out and the executive directors either reprimanded, or shown the door.
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