Arthur Cockfield and Allison Christians in a new article out today at the Globe and Mail write:
For the first time in Canadian history, our federal government is preparing to provide a foreign government with sensitive personal financial information about hundreds of thousands of Canadians. It is doing so to stave off threatened economic sanctions, and is getting nothing in return.
Read the entire article here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/how-the-us-pulled-off-the-great-canadian-privacy-giveaway/article17916327/#dashboard/follows/
It’s great to see Globe and Mail staying on top of this subject. Glad to see this! Hopefully as FATCA approaches this will only increase!
Kudos to AC squared!
With friends and allies like this, we SHALL not fail!!!
@George, I sure like your energy today!!!
Good job wading into the comment section; it was worth a peek into the comments and they were well-written, and definitely supportive.
EVERYONE in Canada: please blitz your MP with this article from the Globe and Mail today, demanding that the IGA and implementing legislation be split off from the budget bill and be debated and voted on separately, NOT as a confidence motion (as budget bills always are) and with a free vote (which is never allowed by parties on budget bills).
It is particularly important IMO to smoke out Tory backbenchers who until now have been utter wimps in allowing their front bench constantly to stage-manage and bully them into robo-voting whatever their Dear Leader and his PMO shove down their throats. Maybe a few of those MPs can be shaken loose enough to damage or derail this. (I’m not holding my breath on that, but it costs nothing but a few minutes of your time to give it a try, and if no one tries it, it will never happen for sure — so why not!).
Off Topic. I apologize but, Jim Flaherty has died
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/04/10/21595311.html
Breaking News: Former Finance Minister Jim Flaherty had a cardiac event in his home; reports have said that it was fatal. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/04/10/21595311.html
Sorry, Atticus, I think we both double posted. I concede to you.
@Animal, no need to compete. I’m sorry for his family.
With the simple fact that he and his wife helped (his Conservatives) to destroy and alienate 1M+ Canadian families. The only people I feel sorry for is his family: his sons. What a hell of a legacy to leave his children after 19 years in political office.
@bubblebustin, agreed. Despite the end result, Flaherty was the only Finance Minister that actually put up a fight with the US, he fought for several years. Maybe if he had been in better health, he could have fought them longer.
He was a good man and I feel for his family.
Flaherty answered every letter I wrote him and DID indeed fight hard against FATCA for many months until they finally folded. His letter released to U.S. press but, not published was quite a bold move. I too feel badly for his sons. It’s horrible to lose your father. Mulcair teared up on CPAC a few minutes ago and spoke highly of Flaherty.
May Mr Flaherty RIP. He also did not like the split income which really benefits the very rich.
It is very sad for a family to lose their loved one.
I will forward the Globe n Mail article that Alison and Arthur wrote to my MP.
Flaherty was younger than me.. Time to stop and smell the flowers.
Likewise, Atticus. Mr. Flaherty personally answered my concerns regarding how this affects the RDSP, an investment opportunity he worked to bring into being for families to save for those with disabilities and higher-than-normal associated expenses and better normalize their quality of lives.
I know that I’ll always wonder the story behind his resignation as Finance Minioster beyond his health issues. RIP, Minister Flaherty, with sincere condolences to your family.
We WILL fail if we don’t get HUGE attention brought to this and NOW! We are all writing to a small crowd who all agree. Everyone I meet and talk to, even internationally, Agree with the fact that the USA is abusing power and destroying honest people around the world. We need something huge and now, not tomorrow…..
@NativeCanadian, Yes, do you have any suggestions?
I would like a massive protest, live in person in a large city like Toronto. Where would be the place to set up a protest? I will ask that ALL people who read here, even those whop do not comment on here take note of this protest and attend. This is IMPORTANT! I want City TV, CTV,GLOBAL, CHCH, CFTO and ALL Toronto radio stations to be made aware that we are standing up for JIM FLAHERTY. We know the stance he made on Fatca. We need large copies of his comments to the financial post on signs so we can show what he wanted. This is it, we have NO other way of getting Canada to stand with us and Mr. Flaherty. This can be in his honor and something we know he wanted. Harper calls him a friend. He means that as much as he means Canada will protect and stand behind Canadians. People, we need everyone! This needs to be organized and for god’s sake, everyone!
@Native Canadian
I’m in for the protest. Toronto would be great.
A nasty comment to Christian’s and Cockfield’s article has been posted by ‘Ericka from America’, who says:
“Will you ever grow up?
Canada is about as sovereign a country as Puerto Rico. Whatever it is you find to complain about with the U.S. is just trivial considering that the U.S. is responsible for your very existence.”
@ WhiteKat
Ericka from America is a always trying to enrage people. It’s her schtick. She feeds off the frenzy she deliberately creates. For me, she’s too toxic to touch.
I agree. She (or he?) longs for people to take her bait. Thumbs-down.
Do you think Mr Hunter should also just be ignored? I keep falling for his bait, I rather can’t help myself.
@ Charl
T.H. will usually just plop in, deposit his copy and pasted standard stink bomb and then depart … unless someone replies to him. If there are enough lucid comments surrounding his stinker (and there usually are) they will show it up for what it is.
@charl
Tom is an interloper who doesn’t know the difference between CBT and RBT. He’s claimed that the US practices RBT, and that Canada’s system is the same as the US’s in that Canada will continue to tax it’s people when they no longer reside in Canada.
Erica doesn’t believe that the US benefits from its relationship with Canada – and that Canada would be nothing without the US.