Thread by @sunnshiiny

Gil is on to something here.

What is the drive to lobbying for TFW? An opportunity to lower the minimum wage. TFW are paid less than domestic counterparts, Canadian citizens.

Is this an attempt to lower wages in an already contracted economy?

https://twitter.com/gilmcgowan/status/1227968918704152576

Take a look at the June 2019 recommendations of CFIB. cfib-fcei.ca/en/media/small…

Every recommendation is based on UCP ideology and publicly stated business policy demands for federal government.

Is there any separation between UCP and CFIB?

Halt CPP increases. Make retirement savings the responsibility of employees. Why should employers contribute?

Income splitting, so tax burden reduced on profits.

Ensure transferring business title doesn’t mean taxes for children or relatives of small business owners. Tax employees only?

Balance federal budget? How does a deficit federal budget impact small business? Fed tax rates.

The credit card issue is a valid concern.

Calling for deregulation. Wouldn’t want harming others or the environment getting in the way of profits?

Taxpayers should subsidize businesses training requirements? Is this welfare for businesses? But cuts to public education is ok?

And finally, pave a path to long term or permanent residency for TFW. Keeping wages low would really help boost those profits. So let’s facilitate permanent depressed wages by paving a path to make TFW permanent, along with less than substance wages.

These recommendations are self serving, meant to reduce the tax revenues of both federal and provincial governments while adding additional tax burden on employees vs employers.

And to top it off, reduce the wages employees make to pay those increased tax burdens.

If that’s what small businesses need to survive in the business market, there is little hope for wage earners and public benefits.

This is entirely based upon a far right libertarian economic model.

You know, the one that benefits the owners and employers to the extreme, all at the expense of tax revenue and wage fairness.

I’m surprised they didn’t include “disband unions and enforce right to work legislation.”

Seems the CFIB is convinced they only way to support small business in Canada is to give them all the advantages and increase their profits, in the hopes they might hire two employees for what they currently pay one.

Then ask for training subsidies from those taxpayer wage earners who replaced the Canadian labourers, and all taxpayers to advance the skill and knowledge base up to the levels that the Canadian worker already possessed. With no pay raise of course.

My sixth grader could see through the grift in these recommendations.

My oldest gets an allowance by completing chores. I could pay the younger one to do the same chores for less.

Or pay the neighbour kids even less than I pay for the youngest and demand my kids train them to do the job properly. On their own time.

That’s the equivalent kitchen table budgeting recommendations.

Heck, if I throw in a few laughs and a lollipop, maybe the neighbour kids will do it for free. Then I get to keep all the money for myself.

Avarice is not good business sense. It’s just a fancy way of saying greedy as hell.

When did operating a small business become an exercise in tax avoidance, offering lower than subsistence wages and forcing tax payers to foot part of your training costs while you split the profits (income) with your spouse to lower your taxes even more?

Probably about the time libertarians motivated by avarice and Austrian economics took charge of associations like CFIB and began shilling for Canadian Conservatives I presume.

The grift is as plain as day.

Thanks for the heads up Gil. @gilmcgowan