NOTICE OF MEDIA CONFERENCE
Individual Canadian investors, Garth Turner, MP, the Canadian Association of Income Trust Investors and the Canadian Retired & Income Investors’ Association will be holding a media briefing.
Charles Lynch Theatre
Main floor, Centre Block, Parliament Buildings
1 pm
Monday, January 29, 2007
For more information
Esther Shaye
Executive Assistant to Hon. Garth Turner, P.C., MP Halton
905-693-0166 (office)
905-699-1902 (cell)
5 comments ↓
It’s a shame that this could not be webcast as I would have very much liked to listen and participate. Could you post a summary of what transpired?
Go Go Garth…U the man
You got smoked in the house today.
nice tie by the way.
“CAITI’s Questions for the Minister of Finance at the Upcoming Public Hearings on Income Trusts”
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2007/29/c2065.html
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My bet, no answers will be forthcoming.
Looks like a poor set of questions to me — more intent on embarasing the minister than selling the real point that RRSPs have been taxed unfairly for a lng time. ie Dividends. Taxing trusts puts them on same tax basis as Div paying corps.
And what about the unfair taxation advantage pension plans get. CAITI should not be arguing the trust tax but suggesting what further actions need to be taken to make RRSPs not be taxed on payments into a plan through tax credit or something like that. The questions they are asking sound a lot like Question Period questions. ie Please answer yes or no – Do you still beat your wife?