Meet Grit MP Wayne Easter: defender of the tax avoiders
Instead of busting the myths surrounding these proposals, Easter promotes them. He knows that only those earning over $150,000, the wealthiest seven per cent of Canadians, will be affected. And as for the impact on farmers, there is none: they retain their $1-million capital gains exemption so they can transfer their farms to their children.
POWELL RIVER, B.C.—What is it about progressive politicians going to Ottawa only to end up as arrogant conservatives? The last encounter I had with Wayne Easter, Liberal Finance Committee chair, was in 1991 when he (as head of the National Farmers’ Union) and I joined other social activists to d...
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