Grit MP Fry suggests misinformation led to PM’s quick rule-out of broadband tax

'Obviously he hasn’t read it,' Grit MP Hedy Fry says of PM Justin Trudeau dismissing part of a committee report that suggested new taxes on internet service providers.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Liberal MP Hedy Fry, chair of the House Heritage Committee.
Liberal MP and Canadian Heritage Committee Chair Hedy Fry has suggested that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn’t fully understand what the committee was recommending when he shot down the idea of new taxes on broadband distribution. That recommendation—to expand an existing five per cent levy ...

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