Report From Parliament Hill

Eric Melillo, MP, Kenora Riding

Dear Constituents

After nine years, the NDP-Liberal government continues to make life more expensive for Canadians. Despite completely losing control of spending, the government decided to launch a disastrous capital gains tax hike on workers, homebuilders, doctors, farmers, and small businesses.
However, with Justin Trudeau paralyzing Parliament for months on end, and then shutting it down completely to hide from an election, the NDP-Liberals failed to make the capital gains tax hike law. Regardless, the Canada Revenue Agency has already begun collecting capital gains taxes at the new and higher rate.
This has real consequences for Canadians. The NDP-Liberals are taking money from small businesses without the consent of Parliament and have created a tax-filing nightmare for hard-working Canadians across our country.
Worse still, by the time Parliament resumes its work, it will have been almost twelve months since this capital gains tax was first introduced. This means the NDP-Liberals have created a lawless state of limbo for Canadians by imposing a tax without ever passing it into law.
Common Sense Conservatives warned the government that this tax hike was catastrophic for Canada’s already weak and failing economy. They are hiking taxes on homebuilding during a housing shortage, on doctors during a doctor shortage, on farmers during a food cost crisis, and on small businesses and workers while Canadians’ paycheques are shrinking, and investment is fleeing.
Enough is enough. Billions of dollars of machines, technology, businesses and paycheques are being driven out of our country. Canadians should not have to suffer through this just because the Liberals are fighting each other for power and desperately avoiding an election.
The Minister of Finance has the responsibility to stop this job-killing tax hike before it does even more damage to our economy. If he refuses to do this, then at the very least, he must direct the Canada Revenue Agency to stop collecting this lawless tax until after an election.
Only then can a Common Sense Conservative government put a stop to this, axe the tax and bring home powerful paycheques for all Canadians.
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Sincerely,
Eric Melillo
Member of Parliament
Kenora Riding