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Transport committee You are talking about a rural municipality. What does “rural” mean? Are we talking about Rivière-du-Loup or—
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee Okay.
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee That depends. If it has to do with international ports, like the port of Vancouver—
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee The idea of a federal government operating a bridge from one shore of Canadian soil to the other doesn't make any logical sense. That bridge connects to a city roadway network and a provincial roadway network that's 100% designed, built, and maintained by Quebec. Am I not correct
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee I come from Vancouver where all taxes combined amount to 50 cents per litre of gas.
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee Could you give me an example?
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee Yes, that's it.
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee Yes.
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee At the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we do not buy into the concept of redistribution of wealth as something that is a public good. We believe that wealth is earned and that taxes are levied to provide public services to the public, so any element of redistribution of wealth is
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee Well, on areas of their own jurisdiction, certainly. The fact is that the federal government doesn't have jurisdiction in road building or transit building, and yet it levies taxes on transportation fuels. This has created this resentment in city governments, and with provincia
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee Our recommendation is that the federal government scrap the gas tax and that the provinces and the cities assume that responsibility. As a result, they would make the money back and have taxation power.
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee Suzanne Blais-Grenier, former member for Rosemont, and André Bissonnette, member for Saint-Jean in the 1980s.
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, I'm here representing 70,000 supporters from across Canada. We are Canada's largest and oldest taxpayer advocacy organization, proudly non-partisan, and funded solely by voluntary contributio
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee Yes, entitled “National Public Transit Strategy”, so--
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Transport committee We have no quarrel with Quebec's jurisdiction over transit, but we don't submit that it's unique. We think that provinces have jurisdiction over transit. Perhaps if Parliament stopped collecting a heinous excise tax on gasoline, the provinces could go and tax it, fund away, and d
October 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas