This isn’t Thomas Mulcair’s NDP anymore | CBC News
Thomas Mulcair’s NDP
was not entirely opposed to raising taxes. As set out in the party’s
2015 platform, a Mulcair government would have increased the corporate
tax rate by two points, from 15 to 17 per cent. That NDP also promised
to close the tax loophole on stock options — an issue the Trudeau
government partially addressed earlier this year.
was not entirely opposed to raising taxes. As set out in the party’s
2015 platform, a Mulcair government would have increased the corporate
tax rate by two points, from 15 to 17 per cent. That NDP also promised
to close the tax loophole on stock options — an issue the Trudeau
government partially addressed earlier this year.
But
the former NDP leader scoffed at raising taxes on the wealthiest
Canadians, as Trudeau eventually did. “Several provinces are now at the
50 per cent rate,” Mulcair said in 2013. “Beyond that, you’re not
talking taxation; you’re talking confiscation. And that is never going
to be part of my policies, going after more individual taxes. Period.
Full stop.”