{"id":1613,"date":"2008-01-04T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2008-01-04T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T02:50:00","slug":"stay-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"Stay Informed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OTTAWA \u2014 Canadian taxpayers are footing the bill for a $650,000 ad campaign that boasts about a one-cent cut to the GST<\/span> \u2013 a campaign that opposition members say is nothing more than pre<\/span>-election advertising for the Conservatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Radio spots that began airing on Dec. 28 and newspaper advertisements that will soon appear in small weeklies inform Canadians of the benefits they will reap as a result of the sales-tax cut that came into effect on Jan. 1.
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\u201cThe government of Canada is ringing in the New Year with another tax cut. Starting January 1st, the GST<\/span> will be reduced to five per cent, the second cut in less than two years,\u201d says the radio ad.
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\u201cThis means significant tax savings on most everything you buy, like a coffee, a new home, a computer or a new car. To learn more about the GST<\/span> reduction, visit Canada.gc.ca or call 1-800-O-Canada. 2008 will be a less taxing year for Canadians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I know some libloggers<\/span> will be up in arms over for this<\/a>, but I for one would like to thank Canada’s New Government for keeping Canadians informed. Why, just this morning I was in line for a cup of coffee and had already calculated the cost when I remembered the ad I’d heard on the radio the night before. I quickly recalculated the new cost and managed to pay in exact change<\/em>. I can only imagine what I would have done if I hadn’t heard the ads – I might have had to put two pennies away when told the price! How embarrassing<\/span> would that have been!<\/p>\n

I’m sure this scene has happened thousands of times coast to coast this week (given the $650,000 price tag for the ads, hopefully many <\/em>thousand times). I look forward to more informative ads in the coming months along the lines of “Did you know the Canadian government has been Adscam free for two years<\/em>?”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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