Finance Committee prepping for 2018 budget gets an earful on tax changes: chair

Strategists say this budget will be crafted with the 2019 election in mind, with a political focus on spending.

Liberal MP Wayne Easter, chair of the House Finance Committee, says taxes have been at the forefront of the committee's pre-budget discussions this fall.The Hill Times file photograph

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BY EMILY HAWS

October 18, 2017

A Liberal MP who chairs the House Finance Committee says concerns about the government's proposed tax changes have been voiced “quite vividly" in almost every meeting during the committee's ongoing listening tour to help it inform the 2018 federal budget. Wayne Easter (Malpeque, P.E.I.) said conc...

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