Amatter of Ethic...

A MATTER OF HONOUR
It is an old saying, i.e. “There is no honour among thieves.”
A commentary regarding respect for ethic and justice by those
with the power to make and/or change our laws,
By Victor Drummond ©
May 2008

Wars usually result in the commitment of atrocities and despicable acts by all powers involved.

Decency, honour, compassion are apparently all expendable when the perpetrator(s) of evil acts believe the end justifies the means.

In times when Canada has not been directly involved in an armed conflict our citizens had reason to expect they would be treated with respect and decency by their elected representatives.

During the years of the great, (economic), depression, i.e. 1929 through 1939, many Canadians were evicted from their homes – for non-payment of mortgages, and/or non-payment of property taxes.

As painful as that experience was – little blame could be assigned to our government and/or members of parliament. The great depression was a world wide event that individual nations could not control.

Beginning around the year 2001 – in the middle of the longest running economic boom – once again many Canadians found themselves in financial distress.

Some were obliged to sell, or mortgage their homes, and/or deplete their life savings, and/or cash-in RRSP’s and/or go into debt, and/or, apply for deferment of taxes levied on a theoretical “income” that in fact never existed.

And if a deferment -- of this abusive tax -- was granted then to live with the stress of knowing the deferment could be cancelled at any time -- without warning -- if the related corporation was sold or went out of business.

In the meantime the victim could not move out of Canada, without penalty, regardless of the provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

This time, however, the problem is localized to our own defective “taxable benefit” legislation and total blame is owned by our own government.

To call any member of a government -- that tolerates and perpetuates such injustice and unfairness to any of its citizens – “Honourable” -- is a huge contradiction of definition.

Granting some measure of fairness -- to a prior Canadian government that instigated the defective taxable benefit legislation -- the unfair and unjust aspects of that tax law were not readily apparent until the tech market bubble burst in the year 2000.

The “Competence” -- of those who drafted this defective legislation -- is questionable if they did not recognize the flaw and foresee the possibility of this defect becoming predominant at some future time. And their “Ethics” and “Integrity” are lacking if they did.

When the defect did become apparent ----- by producing unwarranted and devastating taxes on honest, hard-working Canadians and turning a system intended to reward employees -- for their loyalty, long hours of productive service and innovation -- into a personal financial disaster –--- any government staffed by “Honourable” people would have taken immediate corrective action.

Instead proper changes to the law – proposed by the former Prime Minister, (Paul Martin) -- were downgraded to a tax deferment scheme that did absolutely nothing to fix the problem or restore the extorted money to its rightful owners.

When the Conservatives were elected with a minority government in 2006 there was some indication Canadians would have their “Right” to fair taxation restored.

But two years later all but some 30 victims of the defective tax legislation and application are still waiting for any form of real action to level the playing field.

As long as this abuse of Canadian citizens continues – without corrective and, restorative action – then there is only one conclusion to be reached, i.e. “There is not much honour among Canadian politicians – and none among thieves.”

If you would like to see the quality of your government improved then contact your Member of Parliament and inform him, or her, that you demand they and their party commit to correcting this outrageous taxable benefit legislation and those already taxed on non-existent “Income” be properly compensated.

Not already familiar with this issue? Then visit the “Canadians for Fair and Equalized Taxation”, (CFET), web page:- http://www.cfet.ca and read the material presented there.

Also the CFET group has made it easy for you to e-mail your Member of Parliament to voice your support of the CFET Fair Taxation objective.

Merely copy and paste the following link to the address line on your web browser and send the prepared text over your own e-mail identity.

http://cfet.ca/EmailMP.html

It really is a question of honour and ethic – ours and theirs.

Victor Drummond ©