Steve 🇨🇦 🚴‍♂️

Happy to be corrected, but I've been doing a little research. For perspective: The NDP here in BC are proposing a top marginal combined provincial and federal tax rate of 55.5% on fairly run of the mill professional incomes i.e. starting at $265k/year, CAD. This rate hits many if not the majority of doctors in BC. The perspective part is this: 55.5% would be THE HIGHEST tax rate at this income level ANYWHERE IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD. They would be taxing doctors in BC at a top rate higher than literally anywhere else. Even high-tax Denmark does not tax its professionals harder at this level. The other thing to note is that in other high-tax jurisdictions such as the Nordic countries, MUNICIPAL/CITY taxes are typically bundled into their income tax rates. So, paying 55.5% in Denmark actually includes your city taxes, where in BC that is an entirely separate bill...and must be paid with money you have already paid income tax on. There is no jurisdiction ANYWHERE that has a higher marginal tax rate on doctors than what the NDP is proposing. Literally, and without question. And in Denmark, one gets free university, effective and cheap/free daycare, generous benefits, and the choice to use either the public or private health systems or both--as well as a public system guarantee that if you don't get treated within certain (fast) benchmarks, the government will pay for your treatment in the private system. Does ANYONE genuinely believe that it is in BC's best interest to be known as the one jurisdiction in the developed world that taxes its doctors harder than anywhere else???

First Nations Health Authority, right now, is still specifically noting a "mass grave" and "remains from 215 bodies" on its website...disrespectful and divisive to all.