Flaherty rejects HST hike to fund public transit in Ontario

[Locutus]

Ottawa is slamming the brakes on Premier Kathleen Wynne’s plan to hike the HST to fund public transit.

Late Thursday, Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty warned Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa that no increase to the 13 per cent tax would be permitted.

Flaherty said any scheme to raise the levy regionally in the Greater Toronto/Hamilton Area would violate terms Queen’s Park and Ottawa agreed upon when they harmonized the 5 per cent GST and the 8 per cent provincial sales tax in 2010.



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Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty rejects HST hike to fund public transit in Ontario | Toronto Star


Take that chairman wynn.

 

[petros]

Sounds like something BC would do.

 

[tay]

Cancell the Senate and presto.there's the money............

 

[lone wolf]

Suits me fine. If Ontario wants to cut off the North's trains, why should people of the North pay for Toronto's?

 

[taxslave]

Nice to have a politician that stands up for taxpayers. People that use transit should pay for transit, not suck the money out of everyone elses pockets for some pet project of a few local politicians.

 

[Nuggler]

Suits me fine. If Ontario wants to cut off the North's trains, why should people of the North pay for Toronto's?

Damn, that "Canadian" was a nice train to ride.

 

[lone wolf]

Damn, that "Canadian" was a nice train to ride.

It still runs - just not from Montreal. Northlander is dead and they want to kill (privatize) the railroad.

Harris wanted to kill it too - more as retribution for not hauling Toronto garbage to his investment in Adams Mine

 

[Locutus]

Killing the Northlander really pissed me off. Took it every year or so to North Bay.