Sale tax sales pitch

Why British Columbia, Ontario need HST
Productivity will surge as the overall cost of technology and equipment is reduced

The benefit of the HST is that corporations will be able to deduct PST from their taxes as they have with GST. Another form of stimulus, apparently, better known as Survival of the Richest.

Hard to see how a productivity surge will benefit Canada when the author of the above article asserts that nobody's buying our stuff because of the higher assessed value of our dollar. Oh, right; our dollar's going to tank and then we'll be giving away our stuff.

I used to think the HST was just one more means of molding our minds. We're all aware of the new "recycling" tax on tech items, and seeing that on our sales receipts along with PST and GST is just too much of a visible reminder of how we're being taxed into the ground. Maybe there's a fourth tax they want to bring in and they're worried about the "optics"?

But singling out BC and Ontario like this makes me think that combining the federal and provincial taxes may be an aspect of preparation for eventual secession - the breaking up of Canada as it melts into the North American Union.

This is not "conspiracy theory"; there is actual movement toward this apparent inevitability. Here's their proposed map of the 19 "nation states" that will comprise the future North America.


I haven't quite figured out why this would necessitate increased seats in the current federal government, but I think there's a connection somehow. It may not be so much about increased representation in Parliament - or necessarily a chance for Harper to gain a majority (since there's no guarantee the extra ridings will vote Conservative) - as about a redistribution of voting districts that may somehow be more amenable to the future configuration of North America, given their growing populations. Alberta would be joined at the hip with BC.

The writer of the article on the HST is director of the Canada West Foundation which, as far as I can make out, approves of the oil sands, expressed grave reservations about the carbon tax, and is gung ho for senate reform - preferring to elect senators at the provincial level. They don't talk openly about secession or the NAU, but they are solely concerned with western interests, which are quite similar to American interests.

Apparently, population growth is not so pronounced down East, therefore no additional federal seats for them, but as I've stated before, the secessionist's map gives a whole new meaning to the term "Atlantic Accord", and the Maritime Union/New Acadia concepts which has spawned the Atlantica Party who claim not to be "corporate shills for the Atlantica Free Trade Zone Sponsors", not to mention the Novacadia Alliance.

I don't really understand the controversy over whether or not an extra four seats would benefit or harm Quebec, but Jack Layton's comment in that regard reinforces my contention (underlining mine):

We're trying to create the winning conditions for Canada in Quebec because we don't support those that would like to split the country up.

I suspect the NDP will support whatever gives it the best advantage should those who want to "split the country up" succeed (secede).

Example of redistribution: Access to maps showing before and after (pdf) electoral districts for Ontario.