PM’s wealth not touched

Editor: So the Liberal tax fairness legislation will only tax the “wealthiest” Canadians, eh?

Justin Trudeau’s family wealth is largely not touched by this legislation.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau and his wife Nancy McCain (of McCain’s French Fry business conglomerate) are also the beneficiary of large family fortunes; also managed by private bankers, working with the best and most experienced tax accountants and tax lawyers, only available to the ultra-rich, whose hourly rate charged to clients, exceeds the weekly wages of most Canadians.

For a common worker, farmer, entrepreneur, commercial fisherman, public servant, a gift of a Christmas holiday on a private island, worth say $100,000, is a taxable benefit in their hands (and may even be unethical to accept), but Trudeau will pay nothing in tax for this benefit of his office.

Remember, he received it from the owner of a favoured foreign charity who received government funds in excess of $20 million to an “old family friend’s” foundation. That is tax unfairness at its worst.

For the most part, these generous tax provisions are continuing to let the top one per cent continue to use trusts, off-shore tax havens, and a myriad of other tax-avoidance techniques to avoid paying their fair share.

However, every other category of Canadian will therefore be paying more tax than their fair share to help the elite within the Canadian classes minimize their taxes. That is not tax fairness, it is simply the same old same old, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

But then why should anyone object to this progressive, liberal, concept of “fairness”when we have “sunny ways.” and it is the “right thing to do” by Liberal standards? Doug Waines West Kelowna