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Today on @TheWestBlock we kick off with @MichelleRempel on what she thinks of Andrew Scheer's resignation and the private school tuition donor money was paying for. What does she make of the party's executive director signing off on it? And will she run for leader? #cdnpoli #CPC
@TheWestBlock @MichelleRempel Then we sit down with NDP leader @theJagmeetSingh to ask about his top up - how normal is this for party leaders? We'll also ask whether or not the NDP will be supporting NAFTA after being unsure earlier this week and is time for Canada to get tougher with China? #cdnpoli #NDP
@TheWestBlock @MichelleRempel @theJagmeetSingh Our journos break it all down with @RobertFife and @IvisonJ walking us through the civil war that is still raging inside the Conservative party, how Mr. Scheer's resignation went down, and what the fallout will be #cdnpoli
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So, according to Global TV's @MercedesGlobal who broke the story:
(1) The directors of the Conservative Fund knew about the top-up fund their party' executive director approved for Andrew Scheer, which is quite common for party leaders in all parties.
(2) Scheer, with the executive director's permission, chose to use some of that money tp pay for private school tuition for his children.
(3) Scheer did not break any rules within the party for doing what he did.
(4) The objection of the Fund directors is that while they knew about the top up fund to Scheer, they didn't know he was using it to pay for the tuition of his children which they're furious about not because he broke any rules but because of the optics.
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OK, there seems to be a lot of confusion about Andrew Scheer's private school *non-refundable* tax-credit proposal. The amount *eligible* for a tax-credit, per child, is a maximum of $4,000. The amount saved by the taxpayer would be 15% of that, or $600/child. /2 #cdnpoli
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