Canada General Discussion 1.5: The Countdown Begins

[MaxQue]

NDP would tax stock-options, as more and more executives are paid in stock-options to evade taxes. Would be interested to hear Liberal and Conservative reaction to that.

[MaxQue]

NDP would tax stock-options, as more and more executives are paid in stock-options to evade taxes. Would be interested to hear Liberal and Conservative reaction to that.

What exactly are they doing?

All the articles and press releases say things like close the loophole, but they could mean three or four different things by that since stock options are such an odd sort of income from a taxation perspective.

Well, I'm not part of the NDP leader ship and they don't seem to have described in details how they would do it (which is normal, you want to convince voters, not explain fiscality to specialists).

[MaxQue]

The Tories are contemplating allowing voluntary contributions to CPP.

I'm glad to see them come around on this issue. I only wish it was mandatory

I suppose than, as usual, Quebec would be exempted?

[MaxQue]

I don't have many nice things to say about Parizeau, so I'll leave it at that.

I see the Angryphone media did its usual hatchet job. They even tried today, asking Couillard how he dared honour the memory of an evil separatist. Thankfully, he put her to her right place.

He was a very strong left-winger, the last intellectual hearyweight politician in Quebec (Landry, Charest, Marois and Couillard are dumb and idiot comprared to him), very charismatic, the finance minister of Levesque and the father of many Quebec institutions, like the CDPQ (the investment fund of the Quebec, owning things all around the world) and the RRQ (our retirement fund). Really sad than the Angryphones managed to taint his strong left-wing credentials to theeyes of fellow left-wingers.

He was passoniate about independence, but probably way too much, which caused some verbal excesses, but he wasn't a racist (unlike some in PQ) and was good-hearted. PQ needs more people like him and less Péladeaus.

Couillard announced the CDPQ HQ will be renamed Jacques-Parizeau.

[MaxQue]

Let's say he was intense, passionate, stubborn, obstinate and larger than life. Which enlarged very much his qualities but also his flaws.

As a public servant under Lesage's government, in the 60's, he was one of the main creators of the modern Quebec economical structures (which was dominated, before, by Anglophones who were lukewarm, as best, hostile, at worst, to French Canadians having economical power).

Probably the last living father of the Quiet Revolution.

[MaxQue]

Oh, continue like that, dear Conservatives!

Given the opinion the average person has of Tim Hortons and Enbridge, this should badly reflect on Conservatives.

[MaxQue]

lol, PCs only raised $200K from regular people? Probably mostly the wealthy, too.

Why people would give money to the Corporations Party?

[MaxQue]

Lisa Raitt, maybe? She herself has left the door open. Nicholson seems a natural pick for interim leader.

Raitt would get demolished over his "cancer is sexy" comment.

[MaxQue]

Angryphones threaten to kill Longueuil mayoress because she wants City Council to work in French, in a 96% French city.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/caroline-st-hilaire-receives-death-threats-over-language-comments-1.3127024

Not stated in article, but the root of all that, is the Opposition Leader saying everything he says in both languages, to stall and delay things.