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Alberta budget Oct. 24: Kenney says tough choices needed to fight deficit | CBC News
The budget is scheduled to come three days after the federal election.
Kenney
dismissed a question on whether federal Conservative Leader Andrew
Scheer asked him to present the budget after the election, on the
assumption that any controversial spending cuts by Alberta conservatives
could rebound on their federal counterparts.
Robson Fletcher tries to explain the healthcare cuts facing Albertans. He should just say, “Well Doug Ford did it… Kenney can too.” #abpoli
In an election focused on families, an ‘implicit tax’ on parents is under the radar
There is one idea that no one has touched yet: dialing back the clawback that parents face when they work to supplement their income while they are on leave.
Currently, the standard rule for parents — as for unemployed workers, who collect benefits under the same Employment Insurance (EI) system — is that the government withholds 50 cents for every dollar earned, up to 90 per cent of your regular weekly earnings. After that threshold, the benefits are deducted dollar for dollar.
The rolling back of the benefits is like “an implicit tax,” said David Gray, a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa.
‘We’re ready for them:’ Texans see opportunity in western Canadian malaise | CBC News
40 companies in the past year and a half
He says
Arrowstar has helped about 100 western Canadian companies move north of
Houston in the last decade, and 40 of them were in the last year and a
half.
The majority of newcomers have been Canadian oil and gas drillers.
“I definitely want Canada to pick back up. I would love for that more than anything,” says Graham.
But for now, he says, a lot of Canadian businesses need help to keep going.
“We’ve got doors open and we’re ready for them.”