{"id":92349,"date":"2017-09-22T21:42:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T21:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/morneau-draws-criticism-from-business-concerns-from-n-s-premier.html"},"modified":"2017-09-22T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T21:42:22","slug":"morneau-draws-criticism-from-business-concerns-from-n-s-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/morneau-draws-criticism-from-business-concerns-from-n-s-premier.html","title":{"rendered":"Morneau draws criticism from business, concerns from N.S. premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Bill Morneau is in Halifax today for his &#8220;listening tour&#8221; <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">over Ottawa&#8217;s controversial tax proposals<\/a>, drawing criticism from some small business owners and concerns from Nova Scotia&#8217;s Liberal premier.<\/p>\n<p>Morneau met with local small business owners at a library in downtown Halifax, where other small business owners\u00a0met by a locked door wondered why they weren&#8217;t allowed inside to have their voices heard.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"embedlinks\">\n<li>Proposed tax changes could drive doctors out of country, physician warns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the Nova Scotia Legislature, Premier Stephen McNeil expressed concern about the impact the changes could have on health-care recruitment in the province, ahead of a meeting with Morneau later in the day.<\/p>\n<h2>Level playing field<\/h2>\n<p>The proposed changes have drawn complaints from doctors, lawyers, tax planners and other small business owners who&#8217;ve used incorporation to reduce their income tax burden.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"embedlinks\">\n<li>Saskatoon business owners protest federal tax changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Morneau says the changes are meant to end tax advantages that some wealthy business owners have unfairly exploited and to ensure all Canadians have a level playing field.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll head to Fredericton Saturday to speak at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s annual general meeting.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"embedlinks\">\n<li>Doctor who backs tax reforms says it &#8216;just makes sense to pay into society&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/morneau-finance-minister-tax-changes-liberal-government-1.4302751?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Bill Morneau is in Halifax today for his &#8220;listening tour&#8221; over Ottawa&#8217;s controversial tax proposals, drawing criticism from some small business owners and concerns from Nova Scotia&#8217;s Liberal premier. Morneau met with local small business owners at a library in downtown Halifax, where other small business owners\u00a0met by a locked door wondered why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-92349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}