Letter to CBC Exposed
The CBC’s Sunday Edition promoted a politically biased take
on international corporate taxation.
Mr. Enright’s bias was on full display last weekend when The
Sunday Edition ventured into the world of international corporate
taxation. Mr. Enright introduced
Dennis Howlett, executive director of an organization called Canadians for Tax
Fairness. Nothing was fully presented, backgrounds were unstated, journalistic
methods were highly questionable, the facts were mangled and the objectives
hidden. The interviewee, Dennis Howlett, is not a tax specialist, let alone a
corporate tax expert. He’s a long time social activist who has held a variety
of posts, including executive director of the National Anti-Poverty
Organization. He’s been a relentless campaigner over decades for social
justice, wealth redistribution and soak-the-rich government intervention. He’s
a star in NDP circles. Mr. Howlett’s current and relatively new gig is with
Canadians for Fair Taxation, which Mr. Enright failed to note is a union-backed
front. Canadians for Tax Fairness has no staff to speak of and is funded by the
National Union of Public and General Employees, CUPE, the postal workers and
other unions.
The segment ended with a typical CBC public affairs show
gambit: Mr. Enright said he had “repeatedly” asked Finance Minister Jim
Flaherty to come on the program and discuss corporate taxation, but his office
“repeatedly” declined. No wonder. The parallel would be to end an interview
with a Moscow university professor who denounced the United States as an
aggressive warmonger with a note that “we tried to get Mr. Obama to respond,
but his office declined. In other words, no effort was made to get another
opinion.
Here is the largest mistake in The Sunday Edition’s
corporate tax report: More taxes paid by multinationals will in fact NOT reduce
tax paid by individuals, contrary to the CBC's propaganda. The CBC's argument
is simply wrong. Recent studies have shown in the U.S., Germany and U.K. that a
significant share of the corporate tax paid by large corporations is paid by
lower-income Canadians — in fact it is regressive to the extent corporations
shift taxes onto consumers through higher prices. So people don’t see it, but
they pay a significant share of corporate taxes either through lower wages or
higher consumer prices.
The CBC is telling only one side of the story. The CBC is
very left-wing and biased. Please investigate this piece of biased journalism,
and have Mr Enright do a non-partisan report in correction. Please,
Ombudsperson, investigate why Mr Enright is always so biased. Please ensure the
CBC is more fair. Please reply to me.
Jon
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