JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
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EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
ITS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE.ITS THE SUN THATS IN CONTROL OF THIS CLIMATE CHANGE CARBON SCAM.WHAT THE GOVERNMENTS TRY TO FORCE DOWN OUR THROATS.THE SUN IS HEATING UP.ITS NOT WE GOTTA PAY TAXES TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM DESTRUCTION. FROM THAT EVIL AIR WE BREATH WITH CARBON DIOXIDE IN IT.
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
UPDATE THU FEB 12,2015-11:07AM
OH EVERYBODYS DYING FROM CARBON EMMISIONS AND DISEASES BECAUSE OF NOBODY PAYING CARBON TAXES.BUT THESE TAXES ARE FORCED DOWN OUR THROATS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH OF COURSE.AND BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.WE MUST PAY CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING WE BUY.SO THE SUN CAN CONTINUE TO SHINE.IF YOU DO NOT PAY US ENVIROMENTAL CASES TAXES ON EVERYTHING.HOW CAN WE FILL OUR BANK ACCOUNTS.AND THE SUN WILL NOT SHINE ANYMORE.AND THEN WE WILL HAVE TO JACK UP THE HYDRO RATES 50 PERCENT MORE.BECAUSE THE SUN WILL NOT SHINE.IT WILL BE PITCH DARK 24 HOURS A DAY.AND ALL THE HYDRO USE WILL USE IS BECAUSE USE NEVER PAID CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING.AND OF COURSE.USE GOTTA PAY CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING.FOR THE CHILDREN SAKE.IF YOU DO NOT PAY YOUR CARBON TAXES.THE CLIMATE WILL BRING ON FAMINES.WHICH WILL DOUBLE YOUR FOOD PRICES.WHICH WILL HAPPEN WITH THIS CARBON TAX SCAM ALREADY.BUT YOUR LOVING LIBERAL-DEMACRAT LOONIES.WILL TELL YOU IF YOU DO NOT PAY YOUR CARBON TAXES.THE WORLD WILL END.AND FOR THE CHILDRENS SAKE AND THE GOOD OF THE EARTH OF COURSE.WE MUST CHARGE BUSINESSES.MILLIONS OF EXTRA DOLLARS EACH YEAR.UNDER THE GUISE OF POLLUTION CONTROL.AND THEN WE CANADIANS WILL GET THEM CHARGES AGAINST US WITH GIGANTIC GAS-FOOD-AND EVERY ITEM PRICES JACKED UP AT LEAST 50 PERCENT.AND THE PRICES DO NOT JUST GO UP ON EVERYTHING.BUT THEY STILL ADD TAXES AGAIN ON EVERYTHING.THIS NEW CARBON TAX ALSO.SO WE ARE PAYING DOUBLE FOR EVERYTHING.AND THEN PAYING TAXES ON THAT EVERYTHING AGAIN.SO ITS TAXES ON TOP OF TAXES ON TOP OF THE SKY ROCKETING PRICES ON EVERYTHING. ESPECIALLY FOOD AND HYDRO.
AND TO START IT ALL OFF.WE GOTTA PAY BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS TO BUILD THESE SOLAR PANELS.WINDMILL TURBINES AND ALL THESE SCAM CONNED ENVIROMENTAL SO CALLED ENERGY SAVER BUT KILLS US CARBON PREVENTERS. SO WE NOT ONLY FOR KIDS SAKES AND THE GOOD OF THE EARTH. ARE PAYING BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS TO SET THESE FRAUDULENT ENERGY SAVER SCAM PROGRANS UP.BUT THEN THE BUSINESSES GET CHARGED MILLIONS A YEAR TO FORCE THIS CARBON-ENERGY SCAM DOWN THERE THROATS.THEN WE CITIZENS IN ONTARIO AND CANADA.WILL BE CHARGED GIGANTIC PRICES ON EVERYTHING BECAUSE THE BUSINESSES SKYROCKET PRICES ON THEIR GOODS TO COVER THIS CARBON TAX ENERGY SCAM.THEN BESIDES ALL THAT.WE CUSTOMERS-PAY EXTRA CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING WE BUY.SO LIKE I SAY THIS ENERGY-CARBON TAX SCAM IS JUST TAXES ON TOP OF TAXES ON TOP OF SKYROCKETING PRICES ON EVERY THING.OH BUT I FORGOT.ITS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH.AND FOR THE GOOD OF THE CHILDREN.SO THEY MAKE US PAY TAXES ON THE AIR WE BREATH. AND CALL IT AN ENERGY SAVER-EARTH SAVING-WORLD WILL NOT END LIFE SAVING TAX YOU PAY.NOT A SCAM TO FILL THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS.AND TO RAISE PRICES ON EVERYTHING.AND THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATES SAY.WE LOVE YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH.WE WILL SAVE THE WORLD FROM DESTRUCTION.JUST PAY YOUR CARBON-ENERGY SCAM TAXES PLEASE AND THANK YOU FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH AND THE CHILDREN.THEY WILL BE TRYING TO CONVINCE US THIS CARBON SCAM IS FOR OUR BEST INTERESTS.TILL THEY FINALLY FORCE IT ON US IN THE VERY NEAR MONTHS OR SO.
Carbon tax part of part of Ontario Environment Ministry discussion paper-A strategy paper from Environment Minister Glen Murray says a carbon pricing system “is the most cost-effective approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”-toronto star-Environment Minister Glen told a press conference there is no "greater threat" to mankind than climate change.By: Richard J. Brennan Provincial Politics, Published on Thu Feb 12 2015
A controversial carbon tax is included in a climate change strategy discussion paper released Thursday by Ontario Environment Minister Glen Murray.“Putting a price on carbon assigns economic value to our atmosphere and environment,” the discussion paper stated.“A well-designed carbon pricing system is the most cost-effective approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” it stated.In the paper Murray stressed the importance of tackling climate to reduce greenhouse gas attributed to global warming.He told a news conference Thursday there is no “greater threat” to mankind than climate change.“Our children will be the first to never know a normal climate,” he said after the discussion paper was released.Murray argued that rather than increasing costs, carbon pricing “actually drives higher productivity.” He said Ontario's refusal to consider pricing has “got us to where we are today” with respect to increased carbon emissions.The minister is to present a carbon pricing initiative in the spring. Earlier this month, Finance Minister Charles Sousa said the government wasn’t planning to include a carbon tax in the upcoming spring budget.Ontario's greenhouse gas emission targets are: 15 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and then 80 per cent below 1990 level 2050.The consultation paper contends there is a “growing global consensus” in favour of carbon pricing.The Progressive Conservative have made it clear they will vigorously oppose a carbon tax.“Anywhere they have brought in carbon pricing in the world . . . the price of everything went up,” interim Tory leader Jim Wilson told reporters this week.“It is another tax that is just going to hurt the economy and kill jobs,” Wilson said.The Liberal government discussion paper will be posted on the Environmental Registry for 45 days while meetings will be held across the province.The discussion paper also puts forward a cap-and-trade system as another way of putting a price on carbon. Cap-and-trade is a regulatory system meant to reduce certain kinds of emissions by providing companies with a profit incentive to reduce pollution levels faster. Under a cap-and-trade program, a limit on certain types of emissions or pollutions is set, and companies are permitted to sell or trade unused portion of their limits to other companies struggling to comply.Quebec has a cap-and-trade system.
Should Ottawa be taxing women's periods? By Steve Mertl | Daily Brew – FEB 12,15-YAHOONEWS
As the Conservative government rejigs its 2015/16 budget, delayed until April to deal with the impact of falling oil prices on tax revenue, a group of women is reviving an effort to exempt feminine hygiene products from GST, a move that could cost Ottawa millions.Proponents say it’s unjust and discriminatory to class tampons, sanitary napkins and other products women use during their menstrual periods as luxury items for taxation purposes.“It’s a product that women and girls use, and there’s not a whole lot of choice, and it should not be taxed, particularly when you look at the fact that items like incontinence products are not taxed,” says Ontario New Democrat MP Irene Mathyssen, whose private member’s bill C-282 on the issue was first introduced in 2011.The proposal has been floating around for more than a decade in the form of NDP-sponsored bills. The latest version revives a previous attempt by Judy Wasylycia-Leis, then a Winnipeg MP.“I think it’s an important issue,” Mathyssen told Yahoo Canada News in an interview Wednesday.“Judy said at the time it’s a gender-based tax. It’s women and girls who pay this GST because the government doesn’t regard them as essential. In fact, they’re considered as luxury items.”For Mathyssen, the absurdity is underscored by the fact wedding cakes and jars of cocktail cherries are exempted from the GST as food items.Mathyssen’s bill is unlikely to be debated before the scheduled fall election but nonetheless is getting support via a petition that’s garnered more than 40,000 online signatures in the last couple of weeks.Petition organizer Jill Piebiak told Yahoo Canada News her group hopes to get 50,000 signatures by March and deliver printed versions to Parliament. It’s modeled on similar recent petitions in Australia and Britain, where the value-added tax on the products was reduced a few years ago but not eliminated.Treat tampons like incontinence products, says advocate-Piebiak said she doesn’t understand why tampons and related products aren’t the same as exempted incontinence pads and adult diapers.“The government recognizes that [users can’t do without them] but it doesn’t recognize that anybody who has their period needs to use these products every month for about 40 years of their lives to live a public life,” she said.According to data collected by Piebiak’s group, women aged 12-49 bought almost $520 million in menstrual products last year, from which Ottawa collected about $36 million in GST. Most provinces do not have sales tax on them.The petition is directed at the office of Revenue Minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay but a spokesperson in her office told Yahoo Canada News that, essentially, it wasn’t their department. We just collect the taxes; we don’t make tax policy. Try the Finance Department.A spokesman for Finance also sloughed off the question.“As you might suspect, the department does not comment on proposed policies, particularly in the months leading up to a budget,” assistant media relations chief David Barnabe said via email.Barnabe pointed out Canadians can make their views about the upcoming budget known via the department’s online consultation web page.
Status of women minister mum on tax plea
There was no comment, either, from the office of Kellie Leitch, minister of status of women, which noted the petition was aimed at Findlay. That response surprised Piebiak, who would have thought the minister responsible for women’s issues might have something to say.“This is something that’s a tax that affects only one half of the population,” she said. There really isn’t another example of an essential product that discriminates that way.“So I would expect that somebody whose job description is the status of women in Canada would be interested in issues that Canadian women and their allies pushing for.”Mathyssen said her attempts to raise the issue’s profile within the government have also resulted in more passing-of-the-buck.“They’re not interested in these fairness issues,” she said, while conceding the previous Liberal government wasn’t much interested either. “This has no resonance with them and that’s the frustration.”If it’s a matter of the government having to preserve its revenue stream as resource-based taxes dry up, Mathyssen has a solution.“I say tax the wedding cakes.
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EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
ITS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE.ITS THE SUN THATS IN CONTROL OF THIS CLIMATE CHANGE CARBON SCAM.WHAT THE GOVERNMENTS TRY TO FORCE DOWN OUR THROATS.THE SUN IS HEATING UP.ITS NOT WE GOTTA PAY TAXES TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM DESTRUCTION. FROM THAT EVIL AIR WE BREATH WITH CARBON DIOXIDE IN IT.
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
UPDATE THU FEB 12,2015-11:07AM
OH EVERYBODYS DYING FROM CARBON EMMISIONS AND DISEASES BECAUSE OF NOBODY PAYING CARBON TAXES.BUT THESE TAXES ARE FORCED DOWN OUR THROATS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH OF COURSE.AND BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.WE MUST PAY CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING WE BUY.SO THE SUN CAN CONTINUE TO SHINE.IF YOU DO NOT PAY US ENVIROMENTAL CASES TAXES ON EVERYTHING.HOW CAN WE FILL OUR BANK ACCOUNTS.AND THE SUN WILL NOT SHINE ANYMORE.AND THEN WE WILL HAVE TO JACK UP THE HYDRO RATES 50 PERCENT MORE.BECAUSE THE SUN WILL NOT SHINE.IT WILL BE PITCH DARK 24 HOURS A DAY.AND ALL THE HYDRO USE WILL USE IS BECAUSE USE NEVER PAID CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING.AND OF COURSE.USE GOTTA PAY CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING.FOR THE CHILDREN SAKE.IF YOU DO NOT PAY YOUR CARBON TAXES.THE CLIMATE WILL BRING ON FAMINES.WHICH WILL DOUBLE YOUR FOOD PRICES.WHICH WILL HAPPEN WITH THIS CARBON TAX SCAM ALREADY.BUT YOUR LOVING LIBERAL-DEMACRAT LOONIES.WILL TELL YOU IF YOU DO NOT PAY YOUR CARBON TAXES.THE WORLD WILL END.AND FOR THE CHILDRENS SAKE AND THE GOOD OF THE EARTH OF COURSE.WE MUST CHARGE BUSINESSES.MILLIONS OF EXTRA DOLLARS EACH YEAR.UNDER THE GUISE OF POLLUTION CONTROL.AND THEN WE CANADIANS WILL GET THEM CHARGES AGAINST US WITH GIGANTIC GAS-FOOD-AND EVERY ITEM PRICES JACKED UP AT LEAST 50 PERCENT.AND THE PRICES DO NOT JUST GO UP ON EVERYTHING.BUT THEY STILL ADD TAXES AGAIN ON EVERYTHING.THIS NEW CARBON TAX ALSO.SO WE ARE PAYING DOUBLE FOR EVERYTHING.AND THEN PAYING TAXES ON THAT EVERYTHING AGAIN.SO ITS TAXES ON TOP OF TAXES ON TOP OF THE SKY ROCKETING PRICES ON EVERYTHING. ESPECIALLY FOOD AND HYDRO.
AND TO START IT ALL OFF.WE GOTTA PAY BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS TO BUILD THESE SOLAR PANELS.WINDMILL TURBINES AND ALL THESE SCAM CONNED ENVIROMENTAL SO CALLED ENERGY SAVER BUT KILLS US CARBON PREVENTERS. SO WE NOT ONLY FOR KIDS SAKES AND THE GOOD OF THE EARTH. ARE PAYING BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS TO SET THESE FRAUDULENT ENERGY SAVER SCAM PROGRANS UP.BUT THEN THE BUSINESSES GET CHARGED MILLIONS A YEAR TO FORCE THIS CARBON-ENERGY SCAM DOWN THERE THROATS.THEN WE CITIZENS IN ONTARIO AND CANADA.WILL BE CHARGED GIGANTIC PRICES ON EVERYTHING BECAUSE THE BUSINESSES SKYROCKET PRICES ON THEIR GOODS TO COVER THIS CARBON TAX ENERGY SCAM.THEN BESIDES ALL THAT.WE CUSTOMERS-PAY EXTRA CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING WE BUY.SO LIKE I SAY THIS ENERGY-CARBON TAX SCAM IS JUST TAXES ON TOP OF TAXES ON TOP OF SKYROCKETING PRICES ON EVERY THING.OH BUT I FORGOT.ITS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH.AND FOR THE GOOD OF THE CHILDREN.SO THEY MAKE US PAY TAXES ON THE AIR WE BREATH. AND CALL IT AN ENERGY SAVER-EARTH SAVING-WORLD WILL NOT END LIFE SAVING TAX YOU PAY.NOT A SCAM TO FILL THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS.AND TO RAISE PRICES ON EVERYTHING.AND THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATES SAY.WE LOVE YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH.WE WILL SAVE THE WORLD FROM DESTRUCTION.JUST PAY YOUR CARBON-ENERGY SCAM TAXES PLEASE AND THANK YOU FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH AND THE CHILDREN.THEY WILL BE TRYING TO CONVINCE US THIS CARBON SCAM IS FOR OUR BEST INTERESTS.TILL THEY FINALLY FORCE IT ON US IN THE VERY NEAR MONTHS OR SO.
Carbon tax part of part of Ontario Environment Ministry discussion paper-A strategy paper from Environment Minister Glen Murray says a carbon pricing system “is the most cost-effective approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”-toronto star-Environment Minister Glen told a press conference there is no "greater threat" to mankind than climate change.By: Richard J. Brennan Provincial Politics, Published on Thu Feb 12 2015
A controversial carbon tax is included in a climate change strategy discussion paper released Thursday by Ontario Environment Minister Glen Murray.“Putting a price on carbon assigns economic value to our atmosphere and environment,” the discussion paper stated.“A well-designed carbon pricing system is the most cost-effective approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” it stated.In the paper Murray stressed the importance of tackling climate to reduce greenhouse gas attributed to global warming.He told a news conference Thursday there is no “greater threat” to mankind than climate change.“Our children will be the first to never know a normal climate,” he said after the discussion paper was released.Murray argued that rather than increasing costs, carbon pricing “actually drives higher productivity.” He said Ontario's refusal to consider pricing has “got us to where we are today” with respect to increased carbon emissions.The minister is to present a carbon pricing initiative in the spring. Earlier this month, Finance Minister Charles Sousa said the government wasn’t planning to include a carbon tax in the upcoming spring budget.Ontario's greenhouse gas emission targets are: 15 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and then 80 per cent below 1990 level 2050.The consultation paper contends there is a “growing global consensus” in favour of carbon pricing.The Progressive Conservative have made it clear they will vigorously oppose a carbon tax.“Anywhere they have brought in carbon pricing in the world . . . the price of everything went up,” interim Tory leader Jim Wilson told reporters this week.“It is another tax that is just going to hurt the economy and kill jobs,” Wilson said.The Liberal government discussion paper will be posted on the Environmental Registry for 45 days while meetings will be held across the province.The discussion paper also puts forward a cap-and-trade system as another way of putting a price on carbon. Cap-and-trade is a regulatory system meant to reduce certain kinds of emissions by providing companies with a profit incentive to reduce pollution levels faster. Under a cap-and-trade program, a limit on certain types of emissions or pollutions is set, and companies are permitted to sell or trade unused portion of their limits to other companies struggling to comply.Quebec has a cap-and-trade system.
Should Ottawa be taxing women's periods? By Steve Mertl | Daily Brew – FEB 12,15-YAHOONEWS
As the Conservative government rejigs its 2015/16 budget, delayed until April to deal with the impact of falling oil prices on tax revenue, a group of women is reviving an effort to exempt feminine hygiene products from GST, a move that could cost Ottawa millions.Proponents say it’s unjust and discriminatory to class tampons, sanitary napkins and other products women use during their menstrual periods as luxury items for taxation purposes.“It’s a product that women and girls use, and there’s not a whole lot of choice, and it should not be taxed, particularly when you look at the fact that items like incontinence products are not taxed,” says Ontario New Democrat MP Irene Mathyssen, whose private member’s bill C-282 on the issue was first introduced in 2011.The proposal has been floating around for more than a decade in the form of NDP-sponsored bills. The latest version revives a previous attempt by Judy Wasylycia-Leis, then a Winnipeg MP.“I think it’s an important issue,” Mathyssen told Yahoo Canada News in an interview Wednesday.“Judy said at the time it’s a gender-based tax. It’s women and girls who pay this GST because the government doesn’t regard them as essential. In fact, they’re considered as luxury items.”For Mathyssen, the absurdity is underscored by the fact wedding cakes and jars of cocktail cherries are exempted from the GST as food items.Mathyssen’s bill is unlikely to be debated before the scheduled fall election but nonetheless is getting support via a petition that’s garnered more than 40,000 online signatures in the last couple of weeks.Petition organizer Jill Piebiak told Yahoo Canada News her group hopes to get 50,000 signatures by March and deliver printed versions to Parliament. It’s modeled on similar recent petitions in Australia and Britain, where the value-added tax on the products was reduced a few years ago but not eliminated.Treat tampons like incontinence products, says advocate-Piebiak said she doesn’t understand why tampons and related products aren’t the same as exempted incontinence pads and adult diapers.“The government recognizes that [users can’t do without them] but it doesn’t recognize that anybody who has their period needs to use these products every month for about 40 years of their lives to live a public life,” she said.According to data collected by Piebiak’s group, women aged 12-49 bought almost $520 million in menstrual products last year, from which Ottawa collected about $36 million in GST. Most provinces do not have sales tax on them.The petition is directed at the office of Revenue Minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay but a spokesperson in her office told Yahoo Canada News that, essentially, it wasn’t their department. We just collect the taxes; we don’t make tax policy. Try the Finance Department.A spokesman for Finance also sloughed off the question.“As you might suspect, the department does not comment on proposed policies, particularly in the months leading up to a budget,” assistant media relations chief David Barnabe said via email.Barnabe pointed out Canadians can make their views about the upcoming budget known via the department’s online consultation web page.
Status of women minister mum on tax plea
There was no comment, either, from the office of Kellie Leitch, minister of status of women, which noted the petition was aimed at Findlay. That response surprised Piebiak, who would have thought the minister responsible for women’s issues might have something to say.“This is something that’s a tax that affects only one half of the population,” she said. There really isn’t another example of an essential product that discriminates that way.“So I would expect that somebody whose job description is the status of women in Canada would be interested in issues that Canadian women and their allies pushing for.”Mathyssen said her attempts to raise the issue’s profile within the government have also resulted in more passing-of-the-buck.“They’re not interested in these fairness issues,” she said, while conceding the previous Liberal government wasn’t much interested either. “This has no resonance with them and that’s the frustration.”If it’s a matter of the government having to preserve its revenue stream as resource-based taxes dry up, Mathyssen has a solution.“I say tax the wedding cakes.
