The NDP stakes out a difference

‘Corporate tax giveaways strip ability to invest, place rising burden on taxpayers’

OTTAWA – NDP Finance Critic and Deputy Leader Thomas Mulcair (Outremont) today released the motion to be debated tomorrow in the House of Commons for the NDP’s Opposition Day.

The motion reads:

That, in the opinion of the House, the Conservative government's massive corporate tax cuts are destroying any balance between taxes for large profitable corporations and ordinary Canadians; they are stripping the fiscal capacity of the federal government; they are disproportionately benefiting the financial, oil and gas sectors, while leaving others behind, including manufacturing and forestry; and in so doing have failed to invest in those hard-hit sectors and the needs of everyday working Canadians; therefore, this House has lost confidence in the government.

"New Democrats have no confidence in this Conservative government's fiscal agenda that sees billions of dollars going into corporate tax giveaways, while working families and the middle class are forced to pay an increasing share of the cost of government services," said Mulcair. "It's not fair." MORE