Fail VIDEO: Costing out the NDP platform
Categories: Jack Layton NDP Taxes
Jack Layton's NDP has promised to balance the budget within four years, largely by raising corporate taxes more than the Liberals would, but also through a cap-and-trade energy tax that it now acknowledges may take more time than originally thought to get onstream.
Amanda Lang takes a hard look at the NDP promises and where the money to fund them might come from.
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