Secret doc casts doubt over Finance Canada’s support for Conservative income splitting scheme

Published July 3, 2014

Has the Department of Finance told the Conservatives their family income splitting plan violates a key tax policy principle that seeks to minimize “interference with individual decisions such as those related to labour force participation, work effort, choices in childcare, and family formation?” In a heavily redacted briefing note marked “secret” to Finance Canada’s Deputy […]

Family values group accuses feminists of getting into bed with CEOs

Published June 26, 2014

Canada’s leading social conservative organization is accusing feminists of getting into bed with corporate CEOs to fight the Harper Conservatives’ family income splitting plan. The reason? “To keep everyone in the paid workforce and ensure a large reserve of low-wage workers,”according to a new report from the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada that Employment Minister Jason Kenney calls […]

New Finance Minister supports tax loophole that 86% of families won’t benefit from

Published March 20, 2014

Joe Oliver has never really been the type to paddle against the current. So it’s not super surprising that Stephen Harper’s new Finance Minister has come out in favour of family income splitting, even though the $3 billion Mad Men Giveaway has been criticized by think tanks across the ideological spectrum. For all the knocks against Oliver’s […]

RAW VIDEO: Jason Kenney just doesn’t get the fuss over income splitting

Published March 1, 2014

Senior Conservative minister Jason Kenney doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. On Friday, he praised family income splitting as a benefit for what he called “stable family units.” By design, the policy encourages a parent to stay at home and look after the children, so everyone who reported on Kenney’s comments noted the […]

Social conservatives show their colours at Canada’s big blue weekend

Published March 1, 2014

Social conservatives are well-represented at the Manning Networking Conference, a two-day gabfest tostrategize about “next steps” for the conservative movement. Check out these booths: After getting a receptive audience at the Conservative Party convention in Calgary in October, the group weneedalaw.ca brought their show to the Ottawa event. Here’s their pitch for a law to restrict abortion: “Canada is […]

You won’t believe what Jason Kenney said about family stability

Published February 28, 2014

Senior Conservative Minister Jason Kenney on Friday defended his party’s family income splitting promise, linking the policy that encourages women to stay at home is good for family stability. Kenney, the standard-bearer for social conservatism in Canada, made the comments at the Manning Networking Conference, a two-day gathering of the country’s conservative movement. “I was […]