Adding Insult to Injury, Canadian Governments.

The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT??? –WHAT GOVERNMENT? has the nerve to tell senior citizens that the cupboard is bare, BUT money is no object when it comes to Stephen Harpers private eccentricities, or their cabinet perks . . . Sending Stephen Harper’s armoured limo and SUV to India cost $1 million. When Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived in New Delhi on Nov. 5, 2012, the armoured Cadillac that typically shuttles him around Ottawa was waiting at the end of the red carpet. Obviously, he considers PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION to be only for  pawns, peasants, surfs-- the Unimportant Working Members and the Taxpayers of Canadian Society.

The Federal government revealed Tuesday it spent $1 million to have an air force C-17 Globemaster transport plane haul a Cadillac limo and SUV to India, plus another $31,356 to cover the cost of the military personnel on the trip.

The B.C. government and Metro Vancouver’s proposed new transit tax levy, the first of its kind in Canada, would be applied as a regional sales tax to most goods and services that are now subject to the provincial sales tax, and are sold, or delivered within the region. However, the tax would actually be “separate and distinct” from the PST.

Max Cameron, a political-science professor at the University of British Columbia, said this ensures that only Lower Mainland residents pay for the improved transit system, but that such a tax may include exemptions for certain "big-ticket” items like cars.

It seems to me, it would be supremely ironic if citizen/taxpayers actually voted to accept taxes, tolls and user and OTHER fees of a revenue producing program that exempted cars-- from the very tax the governments, mayors and politicians ALL insist will reduce congestion and pollution and provide for better public transportation. But, then Canada’s automobile industry; you know those foreign owned car manufactures, the ones our federal governments and the governments of Ontario have been subsidising for so many years might get OFFENDED,  if Canada’s FIGURE HEAD politicians ever stated taxing ANY of the things that should be taxed in OUR CANADA.
And, do not forget, this tax would be-IS-only the tip of the iceberg.
There are still the “User Fees” which WILL be added-regardless to whether or not citizen/taxpayers vote to accept the proposed 0.5 per cent tax increase.

The citizens and taxpayers of Alberta are on the hook for nearly $1.5 million originally earmarked for 19 schools. Schools that were never built under the private-public funding model.

Parents need schools, and classrooms for as a source of inexpensive day-care; and they need teachers to take over the job of teaching their children civil/social, family, moral/spiritual values; all the jobs parents traditionally handled themselves-when families still existed. Children need the schools as a place to receive a recognised, formal education and to learn all the “traditional family values Canadian families once believed in. This was an unnecessary delay and an unnecessary cost that all Albertans- all Canadians-children/parents, citizens/taxpayers, are paying for.
In June, Alberta Infrastructure said the citizen/taxpayers would save $14 million by foregoing the public-private partnership model to build a batch of 19 new schools and instead fund the $556 million construction cost themselves, delaying construction and school completion into 2017.

Delivering the 19 schools using a public-private partnership method would have cost taxpayers of the province just over $570 million.

In spite of numerous studies showing that a public-private partnership model would cost Albertans more, the PROGRESSIVE Conservatives insisted on pushing ahead. Now Albertans are paying the price. And, they still don’t have the schools they need. Canadian Governments adding insult to injury. © Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan. All rights reserved.