Jonathan Chevreau

Canadian taxpayers are generally an obliging lot, considering the top marginal rate in Ontario is still an
egregious 46% ... But when governments change the rules retroactively, as did the Dalton McGuinty Liberal administration in Ontario last week, taxpayers rise up in justifiable indignation.

The public and professional tax experts alike were outraged by McGuinty's move to eliminate the private
school tax credit retroactively to last Jan. 1, 2003.

Christina Blizzard (see the second half of the article)

...Ontario's human rights commissioner says the province may be in contravention of the Ontario Human Rights Code now that it has repealed the Education Tax Credit ...

Jack Mintz and William Robson

In the recent Ontario provincial election, the survival of the province's Equity in Education Tax Credit was a major issue. Canadians elsewhere and Ontarians not preoccupied with education paid little heed -- the fact that many provinces and countries with thriving public education support independent schools much more generously than Ontario, for example, scarcely registered.

The Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools is disappointed with today’s ruling by Justice Ian Nordheimer to deny a temporary injunction to prevent the Liberal government from debating a bill that eliminates the Equity in Education Tax Credit. In handing down his decision, the judge acknowledged there may well be a conflict between the government’s tax plans and the Taxpayer Protection Act, but the issue will have to be resolved in the legislature or with remedies other than an injunction at this stage of the parliamentary debate ...

For two years now, Dalton McGuinty and the Liberals have been saying, "One of the first things we will do is cancel the education tax credit and use the money elsewhere." Why the urgency on this issue? If it is as significant as we have been led to believe, why have we never heard a good reason?