February 14, 2025
COVID-19 bill would give Liberals power to raise taxes without parliamentary approval until end of 2021
The bill would also give Ottawa authority to 'purchase or hold a company’s shares' and allow the health minister to, in effect, break patents on medical devices.
The bill would also give Ottawa authority to ‘purchase or hold a company’s shares’ and allow the health minister to, in effect, break patents on medical devices.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government will table emergency legislation on Tuesday that would equip Finance Minister Bill Morneau with far-reaching powers to raise taxes and bail out companies up until the end of 2021, according to a draft of the bill obtained by the National Post.

If passed, the legislation would allow the minister to raise taxes without parliamentary approval.

The bill, tabled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, would “have the effect of repealing or imposing a tax, decreasing or increasing a rate or an mount of tax otherwise changing the incidence of tax,” the draft legislation says. It would also give Ottawa authority to “purchase or hold a company’s shares” and would allow the health minister to, in effect, break patents on medical devices that might need to be made urgently.

The draft bill was still in negotiation as of late Monday, and still needs to be passed in the House of Commons. Some policymakers are returning to Parliament Hill on Tuesday to debate the legislation, which would trigger a range of fiscal measures already announced by Morneau.

The emergency legislation comes as the federal deficit, already expected to blow past $100 billion this year, is set for another spike as the Liberal government grapples with soaring unemployment and a Canadian economy that could remain in lockdown for months rather than weeks.

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See Also:

(1) Liberals retreat on sweeping bill to allow them to tax and spend without Parliament’s approval

(2) Want to stabilize the economy? Stop taxing it

(3) Province battles federal control of COVID-19 fight

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BTDT
BTDT
March 25, 2020 6:09 pm

How long does it take for the national media to blow through the $600M Trudeau gifted them last September? Apparently 6 months.

The federal government is planning to provide financial support to media organizations to keep journalists working and reporting on the COVID-19 crisis.

https://www.kimberleybulletin.com/news/pandemic-related-supports-coming-for-media-and-journalism-trudeau-says/

BTDT
BTDT
March 25, 2020 5:49 pm

Trudeau just tried to overturn the election results

Damned right he did! Yet only Isolated squeaks of protest here and there. Otherwise no national outrage. So if not this, then what in blazes does it take to outrage Canadians to their very core? Judging from the luke warm blow back after this unholy attempted power grab I’m beginning to believe the answer to that question is little to nothing. Sad.

He may have backed off, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wanted to overturn the results of the last election and stage what would have amounted to a constitutional coup d’état.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/oliver-trudeau-just-tried-to-overturn-the-election-results

Paul
Paul
March 25, 2020 9:17 am

As in the scheme to force licensing on news outlets, it came, it went and came back. No doubt it secretly, from the general puplis, remains hovering about the halls of power. As will this proposed public taxing, coporate welfare scheme. Orders in Council are not democratic. Neither is taxation without representation.

Keep them poor
https://youtu.be/azq0S0DKS50