[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[Monoriu]

Top 1% salary tax payers in Hong Kong earn about US$400k or more.  A pre-tax income of US$400k here translates to about US$340k in aftertax income. 

[Valmy]

Top 1% salary tax payers in Hong Kong earn about US$400k or more.  A pre-tax income of US$400k here translates to about US$340k in aftertax income. 

What do you do with all that money Mono?

[viper37]

Will the Liberals be able to hold their promise on Syrian refugees? (French)

As I tried telling you guys during the campaign, it will be impossible to grant asylum to more Syrian refugees than the Conservatives had accepted without sacrificing elsewhere.  In this case, the sacrifice will be refugees from other countries, it is the only way the objective of 25 000 by the end of the year could have a shot at being successful.  Even then, it's doubtful.

[viper37]

New numbers for the income of the top 1% in Canada.  It starts at $222,000 (still seems remarkably low compared to other Western economies iirc).  So the new tax bracket of 200k is about right.  According to the article linked below the top 1% already contributes 20% of tax revenues to the government.  This coming tax shift will make that number grow somewhat.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadas-1-per-cent-club-unchanged-but-faces-prospect-of-bigger-tax-bill/article27077119/

Mr. Trudeau was heavily criticized during the election campaign by the Conservatives and NDP for saying that "a large percentage of small businesses" are ways for the wealthy to reduce their tax bill.

That's problem right there.  Someone using every trick in the book to avoid paying his dues in the province he works and live in is going to consider me, my clients and my suppliers as scumbags.  And I am supposed to give him the benefit of the doubt.  If Justing is the answer, how stupid was the question?

I may have had minor disagreement with the Cons' latest fiscal policies, but Trudeau is simply an aristocrat who wouldn't have been out of place in 1789's France.

[Monoriu]

Top 1% salary tax payers in Hong Kong earn about US$400k or more.  A pre-tax income of US$400k here translates to about US$340k in aftertax income. 

What do you do with all that money Mono?

As BB likes to point out, civil servants don't really make that much.  Not even the absolute most senior civil servants.  And I am very far from the top.   

[Grey Fox]

New numbers for the income of the top 1% in Canada.  It starts at $222,000 (still seems remarkably low compared to other Western economies iirc).  So the new tax bracket of 200k is about right.  According to the article linked below the top 1% already contributes 20% of tax revenues to the government.  This coming tax shift will make that number grow somewhat.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadas-1-per-cent-club-unchanged-but-faces-prospect-of-bigger-tax-bill/article27077119/

Mr. Trudeau was heavily criticized during the election campaign by the Conservatives and NDP for saying that "a large percentage of small businesses" are ways for the wealthy to reduce their tax bill.

That's problem right there.  Someone using every trick in the book to avoid paying his dues in the province he works and live in is going to consider me, my clients and my suppliers as scumbags.  And I am supposed to give him the benefit of the doubt.  If Justing is the answer, how stupid was the question?

I may have had minor disagreement with the Cons' latest fiscal policies, but Trudeau is simply an aristocrat who wouldn't have been out of place in 1789's France.

Truth hurts, eh.

[viper37]

try starting one, then we'll talk.

[Valmy]

Top 1% salary tax payers in Hong Kong earn about US$400k or more.  A pre-tax income of US$400k here translates to about US$340k in aftertax income. 

What do you do with all that money Mono?

As BB likes to point out, civil servants don't really make that much.  Not even the absolute most senior civil servants.  And I am very far from the top.   

I figured your savings had led to a robust investment portfolio that had catapulted you into the 1%.

[viper37]

A cabinet of 31.  Trudeau wasn't joking when he said he would do a deficit.  So many people to thank...

[Grey Fox]

That's under 40, the previous cabinet where more people need to be thanked.

[Barrister]

Top 1% salary tax payers in Hong Kong earn about US$400k or more.  A pre-tax income of US$400k here translates to about US$340k in aftertax income. 

What do you do with all that money Mono?

As BB likes to point out, civil servants don't really make that much.  Not even the absolute most senior civil servants.  And I am very far from the top.   

I think that's more your line than mine, Mono.  I'm fairly compensated for what I do.

[PRC]

Here is the cabinet:

The Right Honourable Justin P. J. Trudeau Prime Minister, Intergovernmental Affairs and Youth.

The Honourable Ralph Goodale Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food

The Honourable Stéphane Dion Minister of Foreign Affairs

The Honourable John McCallum Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship

The Honourable Carolyn Bennett Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs

The Honourable Scott Brison President of the Treasury Board

The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc Leader of the Government in the House of Commons

The Honourable Navdeep Singh Bains Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development

The Honourable William Francis Morneau Minister of Finance

The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

The Honourable Judy M. Foote Minister of Public Services and Procurement

The Honourable Chrystia Freeland Minister of International Trade

The Honourable Jane Philpott Minister of Health

The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos Minister of Families, Children and Social Development

The Honourable Marc Garneau Minister of Transport

The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau Minister of International Development and La Francophonie

The Honourable James Gordon Carr Minister of Natural Resources

The Honourable Mélanie Joly Minister of Canadian Heritage

The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier Minister of National Revenue

The Honourable Kent Hehr Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence

The Honourable Catherine McKenna Minister of Environment and Climate Change

The Honourable Harjit Singh Sajjan Minister of National Defence

The Honourable MaryAnn Mihychuk Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour

The Honourable Amarjeet Sohi Minister of Infrastructure and Communities

The Honourable Maryam Monsef Minister of Democratic Institutions

The Honourable Carla Qualtrough Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities

The Honourable Hunter Tootoo Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard

The Honourable Kirsty Duncan Minister of Science

The Honourable Patricia A. Hajdu Minister of Status of Women

The Honourable Bardish Chagger Minister of Small Business and Tourism

[Valmy]

The Ministry for Canadian Heritage. That is the dream post right there.

[Barrister]

The Ministry for Canadian Heritage. That is the dream post right there.

Don't knock Canadian Heritage.  It has authority over arts, culture, official languages, as well as sports.

As a politician there are lots of opportunities in Heritage to direct funds to your favourite donors causes.

[Malthus]

The Ministry for Canadian Heritage. That is the dream post right there.

I presume it involves in part arguing with enraged folks from Quebec and First Nations ...