on the dime

Jim Flaherty said he was not aware of friend's tax haven dealings. Oopsie, $3 million worth of gold was sold off as slag — at a fraction of its worth. {to whom?}

The Jims, Flaherty and Love, Chairman of Royal Canadian Mint

Anyway. Following his budget speech last March, Flaherty railed against “people hiding their money offshore and avoiding Canadian taxes.” link

In other news, wow Julian Fantino has four pensions: in addition to getting a cabinet minister’s salary, benefit and pension package, Fantino is pulling in pensions from the Toronto police, the London police and the OPP.

Closure of veterans' offices, Lump Sum Disability Award and veteran suicides.

federal budget 1812

It's an Industrial Revolution ! As long as miners, investors and stock market 'thought leaders' ccce's like it, yep, the main event, git 'er done. Wealth will trickle flake down like gold in Jason Kenney's ass trump's plane.

http://industrialchristmascarol.blogspot.ca/

Like effluent in tailings ponds, asbestos fibers in workers' lungs and happy uraniums for ... everybody! Nature Canada, press release: ... is particularly concerned about plans to amend the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations that expands a loophole in the Fisheries Act. Now, diamond and coal mining companies will join metal mining companies in being allowed to dump toxic waste into Canada’s living lakes.

(... few questions about MP pension plans, corporate lobbying, AECL/ SNC-Lavalin, CPP executive bonuses, F-35s.) Enough about metals, minerals, oil, gas, $13.5m for pipelines and $35.7m for tankers. It'll be fun setting up a full-fledged laboratory, somewhere, maybe the kitchen or beside the sofa, to test food product labels myself in my spare time - and when I let a company know about the results from my lab, it will can give itself a fine for possible misleading advertising or ... dangerous ingredients. hey... And why not test for GMOs too: I'll buy a book !