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Sorry. You're right. 45.3% is the highest non-eligible dividend tax rate.
Not that I totally know what that means..........
I do feel that we are over paid, however, and am not one of those complaining.
I dunno about doctors' fees and such. I've been following the OMA thing, but it's pretty opaque because they keep fighting the Toronto Star on releasing fee information, and it'd be very hard anyways to determine who's being overpaid or who's not.
I don't think it's bad faith though on anybody's part, because it's two separate governments. The feds are closing the tax loophole. Doctors' fees are provincial. Ontario doctors, in particular, can immediately re-negotiate based on the change; doctors in other provinces might have to wait out their current contracts, or maybe there might be some bridging funds or whatever.
I'm pretty sympathetic to that argument, and I get why the OMA has to lobby against this: they're an advocacy group after all. I just don't think that having tax loopholes is particularly good policy.
Like, the argument I see thrown around is that this helps doctors in struggling clinics with high overhead, but I really don't see how since it only increases take-home pay and long term investment, not directly contributing to upkeep costs. I don't really like the fear mongering of "THIS WILL RUIN YOUR HEALTH-CARE". If we wanted policy to help with clinic overhead, this isn't how I'd write it. I'd rather that money go to doctor pay directly instead of a janky system where you're compensated for how many dependants you have and get better retirement savings.
At least in Québec City it's been in the news a lot. First of course with the mosque shooting a few months ago, then the racist backlash against Muslims having a cemetery in town (which ended positively when the city sold them a cemetery lot), groups like La Meute organizing hate rallies, two Québécois going to the Charlotteville rally, and earlier this week hate group Atalante placing illegal signs around town demanding deportation of immigrants.
How can we fight against this?
I know the feds should be forcing the provinces to be united on it. How is Quebec allowed to pull this shit?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-62-identity-politics-muslim-burqa-1.4250417
Yo what the fuck, Quebec??
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Also, Quebec is racist as fuck.
That's impressively tone-deaf. Like the Liberals didn't learn anything about the PQ's Charter of Values and the subsequent electoral backlash they suffered.
Because of how broad it was... This target's Burkas and as we know there is nothing the french enjoy more then making then banning those.. It's the politically correct way of being racist.
Not really... the PQ Charter was presented as broad, but the intent was transparently to ban burkas. There was no one who thought crucifixes were a target, no matter what their little graphic on the cover showed.
How do we solve it?
Keep on keeping on. Spread love when you can and call out racism when you see it.
Human's are still pretty awful deep down and it's gonna take conscious effort to be better for the foreseeable future imo.
I don't think there's any magic bullet except education.
He's refusing to go on the rebel or be interviewed by them forever more.
Political action to keep this new "charter of values" from becoming law would also be very useful.
Edit: I am dumb.
The Rebel as a whole seems to be imploding following the events in Charlottesville. Good riddance, I say.
How so? All I heard was that one or two of their people were in the rally, after which they issued a statement saying they did not support Nazi or the alt-right and their people were only covering the events not participating in them and both sides are the same.
Well, aside from Michael Chong, numerous past contributors including the National Post's Barbara Kay have said they'll no longer be associated with it. Gavin McInnes is on his way out according to Canadaland. And now another former contributor is accusing the Rebel of ripping off its viewers.
If anything this is like a band's guitarist leaving them so that he can go full-time fronting his own band, the Proud Boys. He just wants out of Levant's oversight.
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Oh, the hypocrisy on display is completely obvious, and people absolutely should ask why these commentators and supporters were okay with everything up to this. It's bullshit on every level, and I'm glad the foundation is starting to crumble.
Here's a great piece outlining what I'm getting at: Conservatives Finally Ditching The Rebel Have a Lot to Answer For
More more accurately, rural Québec is racist as fuck, and use the legitimate defence of Québec culture as an excuse to be racist as fuck.
It's the classical "use something grounded on truth as cover to push something hideous" trick used by xenophobes of all countries.
As for how we fight it, we do it the usual ways.
We use whatever laws are available to throw the racists in jail, fine them and makes it clear to children and influenceable people of all ages that this shit does not fly.
We push on local governments to push against those kind of racist laws.
We insult Jean-François Lisée and invite le Front National to all meetings of the PQ. For some reason, the PQ leadership thinks that being associated with the FN is bad, even if they push the same shit.
We protest, and we don't vote for parties that pass or seriously consider those laws.
Meaning I'm down to one acceptable party, and I'm now 100% convinced that Montréal should be independent from Québec.
Coderre is not an especially good mayor, but at least he's not a racist fuck. Now, I can't even say that of Couillard.
Get fucked, you clown
Is it Quebec Solidaire?
Yes, and even then it's only the lesser evil; they are still a sovereignist party. So, in practice, I'm down to voting strategically for a minority government, which should limit the damage, or vote for one of the literal communist parties, to cancel my vote and make someone happy.
That specific organization may be, sure, but the various wannabe-Goebbelses in it aren't going to keep quiet. A month or two from now everyone who's fleeing that sinking ship will have either attached themselves to some similarly odious cause, or formed one of their own; McInnes will still have that wannabe militia of his; the list goes on. If it shuts down tomorrow, they're all still there, audiences and all. They'll just be using different megaphones.
On which note I'm on the LPC mailing list and just got one from them (subject title: "Alt-Wrong"). It's pointing out how interesting it is that the Leader of the Opposition, whose campaign manager is on the board of directors of The Rebel, a site one of whose popular correspondents was chirpily going on about "the JQ" during the auto attack in Virginia, has been curiously quiet about, well, the last several days in general and the Canadian chapter of that general tumor in particular...
Oh absolutely but let's, like, not say this too loud until they've actually killed that piece of shit site. Priorities and all.
We'll need to have a good election chat when the next election comes around (which should be soon, seeing how funding for everything is increasing), because I'm honestly at a loss as to who to vote for. The Liberals are horrible disguised-conservatives running a massive deficit while cutting funding across the board and killing all our social programs, and also are racists. The PQ are disorganized incompetent racists and also sovereignists, but historically they can run social programs (hell yeah $5 daycare!) and I believe they promised not to hold yet another referendum in their next mandate. The CAQ are racists and also conservatives. The Québec Solidaire are sovereingists with their heads in the clouds, and also guaranteed never to form a government or even a real opposition. Everyone else after that are just sovereignists with their heads so far up their asses they refuse to join another sovereignist party. I literally have no one to vote for now.
Can the PQ still run social programs, or have all the people who could left the party?
Personally, I'd like to see QS try things, but really, I want a federalist left-leaning party.
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That said, wow; she's one of the most popular people they still had, if I recall. Also the most openly fascistic. I'm sure that's a coincidence.
Brian Jean issued a vague half-statement about being "concerned with the editorial content" and the sanctity of the media, and Jason Kenny went on this huffy, outraged how-dare-you rant about McCarthyism.
So hey, at least overall we're consistent with our neighbors to the south about this stuff.
It's basicaly Canadian Breitbart and has the profile that had in the US like 8 years ago. You gotta know people really into the conservative infosphere to be aware of it. Mostly because they'll link you bullshit from it.