Mulcair seems to be worried about spin and to want to go after the taxes that ordinary people don't pay so that the Tories can't win on half truths. Closing tax havens seems to be about making sure one pays what one owes rather than increasing the tax rate.
"Ordinary people" do not make over $250,000 per year and there would be at no risk whatsoever of paying more tax under Topp's plan. That makes me breathe a sigh of relief. i make less than $250k/year so I know that the money won't come from me...it will come from those investment bankers and tycoons and surgeons and corporate lawyers who are in the top 0.7%!!
When a politician tells me he or she will NEVER raise taxes on the filthy rich - the first thing that goes through my mind is - I guess I will be the one paying more. The government is going to need more money one way or the other and they arewilling to get it from the filthy rich - they will find ways to get it from the average Joe by increasing iuser fees and making me pay out of pocket for more things i currently get for free and maybe even by raising regressive taxes like sales taxes etc...