*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p>So let me see if I have this straight:</p><p>Poilievre’s ‘big idea’ in response to the threat of massive layoffs and unemployment caused by this trade war is to allow people to put $5000 <em>more</em> into their savings accounts/investments tax-free?</p><p>I mean, sure, it’s being pitched on the premise that the money will be invested into Canadian companies, but when people are struggling to keep their lights on and put food on the table, who’s thinking about putting money into savings to minimize their taxes? Who does this benefit?</p><p>Does anyone else remember how the wealth of the rich skyrocketed during the peak of the pandemic while people lost their jobs and small businesses folded?</p><p>“Harper raised the annual TFSA limit to $10,000, but former prime minister Justin Trudeau dialled it back to $5,000 after he was elected, and then tied that amount to inflation, saying a more generous contribution limit only benefited the rich and pulled too many investment dollars out of the tax system.”</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNPoli</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CDNElxn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNElxn</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CANPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANPoli</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-tfsa-hike-1.7494734" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre</span><span class="invisible">-tfsa-hike-1.7494734</span></a></p>