NDP Steps Up Bid For New Tax On Wealthy, Companies ‘Profiteering’ From Pandemic

NDP Steps Up Bid For New Tax On Wealthy, Companies ‘Profiteering’ From Pandemic

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Nov. 4, 2020. Federal New Democrats are renewing a push for Canada’s wealthiest people and the corporations thriving amid the COVID-19 pandemic to pay more to ease the country’s crisis recovery.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced Wednesday his party will introduce a motion in the House of Commons calling for a so-called super-wealth tax and an excess-profits tax on “big corporations profiteering from the pandemic.” The party says the estimated billions of dollars in new revenue raised by such moves should then be spent on […]

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