PM defends small business tax changes as doctors complain of negative impact
KELOWNA, B.C. — Justin Trudeau got a small taste of the kind of grief his backbenchers have been getting over the government’s plan to end what it calls unfair tax advantages for wealthy small business owners.
During a townhall meeting Wednesday night, the prime minister was lectured by two female doctors about the negative impact they contended the proposals will have on hard-working middle class Canadians.
Monica Penner told Trudeau that the tax plan will catch “thousands of really hard-working, honest, tax-paying Canadians” who have always believed that “hard work is the road to success.”
She questioned how he can explain to students why they should bother going into debt to get a university education when he’s proposing tax reforms that would “make sure everybody is the same in the end.”