Orwell comes to Ottawa: framing and marketing federal Income Trust Tax
How the Harper Government used taxpayer dollars for a campaign to frame and sell a new tax based on emotive slogans and claims that were almost entirely false.
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. The Harper Government's framing and marketing of the 31.5 per cent tax on certain types of income trusts (ITs) announced on Oct. 31, 2006 could have been designed by the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's famous novel 1984.
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