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Finance committee Yes. Absolutely you shouldn't treat yourselves better than the Cancer Society.
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Finance committee We deal with a large number of taxpayers who are vitally interested in the tax system. They give us millions of dollars to come here and represent them to you. Tax filers, taxpayers, are frustrated by the taxation system.
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Finance committee Yes.
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Finance committee It's a question of motivation. If you want to do some tax planning, some work with charitable donations, and the person with the money, let's say an elderly entrepreneur who's run a mill or a small business in a community, if that person's eyes glaze over and he goes “Oh, my head
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Finance committee Make it understandable. Make it understandable on its face, so in a brief discussion—
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Finance committee —you can put it across to them. I think the principle is if you give the money to charity, that money won't be taxed. If you achieve that, then you make it much easier.
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Gregory Thomas. I'm the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. We are Canada's oldest and largest taxpayer advocacy group, founded in 1990, with 72,000 supporters across the country. We appreciate the invitation to participate
May 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee I think what you experienced is fisheries officers refusing to embark on some of these overzealous adventures. Activists groups used the legislation to force the government into undertaking things like the Salish sucker initiative. So, yes, we believe that changes to the legislat
May 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee No. I think the environment movement and thoughtful parties on all sides should actually quantify them by asking how vital the culvert is, how critical it is, how many fish are being impacted, and whether there is a cheaper way to do it that has less effect. As I mentioned, in t
May 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee What they saw was that they're actually closer to the ground—pardon the pun—and they know how their ditches operate. They know when the fish run in them, and they know effective ways to manage their own ditches better than the fisheries officers and better than the environmental
May 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee We believe that the—
May 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee We believe that those who cause the damage should be financially responsible for the damage that they cause. Yes, that's—
May 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee Yes, absolutely. I think it goes back to what I addressed in my submission, which is that Canada is doing a very bad job of getting relevant information in front of decision-makers about the effects on the environment, the cost to the environment, the cost to the economy, and the
May 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee Exactly. How much oxygen is being removed from the Fraser River from the silt that flows down from farmers' fields, and how effective are the mitigation factors that are foisted on the people who've farmed the land for 100 years, as one example? I thought Mr. Hazell's comment ab
May 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee It was clever, but it actually missed the mark, because we missed many periods of $12 and $16 gigajoule gas that would have created apprenticeships for aboriginal people, that would have built a vital economy, and that would have built a self-sufficient northern Canada. Ultimat
May 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Gregory Thomas