MY PRE-ELECTION ---

MY PRE-ELECTION PLATFORM
A tongue-in cheek parody on Canadian Politicians
and Canadian voters to illustrate the way it really is.
by Victor Drummond (c)
June 2009

Note:- The series APPEALS TO REASON has been temporarily suspended pending results of a motion submitted by MP, Thomas J. Mulcair at the 33rd meeting of the House of Commons standing committee on Finance (FINA) to amend Canada’s defective taxable benefit legislation and to refund adjusted taxes on phantom income. Nothing would please me more than to be able to post an article announcing the Canadian government has passed this motion by a large majority in the House of Commons and taxation on phantom income is now history.

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Now here is what I would do for Canada and all Canadians if elected.

(1) The very first thing I would do is to take immediate action to deliver a budget surplus at any cost.

I would even go so far as to tax everyone on any excuse what-so-ever including market investors and speculators on gains they could have made – whether or not such potential gains ever materialized.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) could defend that action on the same grounds they now justify taxing honest, hard-working Canadians on potential gains related to Employee Shares Purchase Plans (ESPP’s) and Employee Shares Options plans, (ESO’s).

And now the CRA needn’t try to justify this taxation by way of a one-sided, unproven, assumption the taxed market investors/speculators has made a deliberate decision to play the markets with their own money.

Their guilt in this case is perfectly obvious by the fact they didn’t take the profit that was available to them and have thereby cheated the government out of it’s share of the possible gain.

(2) I would spare no expense to advertise the implementation of the office of the “Taxpayers Ombudsman” as a puppet of the CRA together with an equally useless “Taxpayers Bill of Rights” which the Taxpayers Ombudsman has no power to enforce.

This scam will fool the average Canadian into thinking they now have a guarantee of fair taxation not realizing that even if violations of one or more of “Rights” as listed on their “Bill of Rights” is reported to the Ombudsman that absolutely nothing will be done to correct the violation.
(With the possible exception of the use of abusive language by employees of the CRA in their letters of intimidation.)

Few, if any, Canadians will actually realize what a low opinion I have of their basic intelligence and most of those that doo see that fact will be too lazy or too busy to bother to do anything about it.

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So if I ran on those two policy planks alone would anyone vote for me? I would not expect any votes. Who in their right mind would support such a political policy?

Yet the taxing of honest, hard-working Candains, on money they never saw, has been an on-going reality since the Hi-Tech Market crash of the year 2000.

Perhaps the fall of the federal liberal government, in the year 2006 election, happened partly because Canadians were being ripped-off by the ESPP/ESO tax policy and the Conservatives were promising reduced and fair taxation for all Canadians.

The exclusive Tax Remission Order (TRO) the Conservative government delivered to “resolve” the ESPP phantom tax issue for some 37 former SDL Optics (JDSU) employees in Saanich Gulf-Islands was all the “resolving” accomplished by this government so far.

Unfortunately this token effort to “resolve” the situation only made the issue more unfair to those thousands of phantom tax victims who were, and still are, excluded from the tax/penalties reprieve.

Now my question to all Canadians is this:

If you would not vote for me on the basis of the above pre-election promises why would you vote for those who have sat in the House of commons for years, ignoring all appeals for justice – fully aware of the financial devastation being imposed on honest, hard-working Canadians and doing absolutely nothing to “resolve” the problem?

If you are in favour of restoring truly “fair” taxation, and furthermore not being played for a fool, then there is something you can do about it.

Contact your local riding MP’s (all federal parties), and inform them you demand they give you a commitment to support correction of the defective taxable benefit legislation and those already victimized by this legislation have the related taxes and/or penalties levied, revoked, and related taxes/penalties already paid refunded.

The Unite States Government has done this and Canada can – and should -- do the same

Remember: Those are your “Rights” that are being subverted not just the rights of those who have been directly victimized. The “RIGHT” to fair and justified taxation belongs to all Canadians.

See you at the voting polls for the next federal election O’Grady.

Victor Drummond (c)