'In the two weeks since Canada's Finance Minister announced a tax cut to dividend-paying stocks, the big question in financial and political circles is whether some people had advance notice of his Nov. 23 announcement. A CTV Whistleblower investigation into what happened that day has found that may have been the case.
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'That evidence is in public bulletin board postings on a popular investor's internet site called "Stockhouse". The first posting -- at 11:14 that morning -- came from someone who wrote: "Skuttlebutt is that he (Goodale) will soon announce a reduction on dividend taxation to 'even the playing field'." This information was posted a full seven hours before the minister's press conference, and possibly viewed by many potential investors before the markets closed.
'The second posting on the same site came from another person, who also seemed to know what was coming. At 3:59, they posted this message: "The hot rumour is that the government's decision on the income trust issue is that they are going to make a more level playing field by reducing the degree of double taxation which currently exists on dividends by increasing the dividend tax credit."
Goodale's actual announcement?
"We're going to help to level up the playing field as between corporations and trusts and we're going to be doing that by ending double taxation on dividends..."(link)(Via)
Coincidence? Goodale seems to think so stating that not a single RCMP investigator had contacted him to question him on the affair.
Then again, I have to ask the question, if this were a Conservative, would the RCMP have thought twice about launching an investigation? It's been well known for a while, that there isn't a lack of overconfidence on the behalf of opposition party leaders when it comes to the rigorous investigation methods of the RCMP when directed at members or supporters of the Liberal Regime...
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