While these proposal have been sold as a tax-fairness measure, it is noteworthy that big business employees and executives will continue to have their stock based incentive compensation taxed at half the rate applied to regular income.  Consequently, the most wealthy and well paid business owners and operators, who spend much of their time and energy outsourcing employment to China and paying for access to cabinet ministers, will not be adversely affected whatsoever.

This is about beating down the small business owners who create 75% of new jobs in the Canadian economy, but are also more liable than most to vote Conservative.

That special new tax credit for teachers, and the ones taken away from transit users and children's activities, should tell us the rest of what we need to know about the Buttster's political agenda for Venezuela north.