American tech giants that provide digital services in Canada – such as Amazon.com Inc., Uber Technologies Inc., Airbnb Inc., Google and X Corp. (formerly Twitter) – have arguably never been taxed properly, and the DST was intended to both update the tax code as much as generate tax revenue from exceptionally profitable businesses that were given a tax break for far too long. If we thought advocating for our sovereignty was hard as the junior partner of an integrated continental economy and defence pact, it will certainly be harder now that the man who consistently threatens us with annexation knows that throwing a fit and storming out of the room is all that’s needed to get our Prime Minister to unilaterally cancel legislation already passed by Parliament. From failing to retaliate on steel and aluminum tariffs to stratospheric defence spending promises (likely to result in austerity and major cutbacks to the civil service), from a border bill that responds to fake fentanyl crisis to folding on a modest taxation policy, Mr. Carney appears to be everything his more lettered critics warned us of.
Author: Taylor C. Noakes
Published at: 2025-06-30 21:02:47
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