Jagmeet Singh is attacking the agreement with Netflix

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Saturday, February 17, 2018 16:13

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OTTAWA | The tax break granted by the Trudeau government to Netflix has been cut in pieces in the speech of the leader of the NDP Jagmeet Singh at the congress of his party on Saturday.

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“Think of a secret agreement with Netflix. Do you find it normal to give an american company the responsibility for cultural development in canada “, protested in French Mr. Singh.

He was speaking at a meeting of delegates of his party at a meeting in Ottawa to decide what will be part of the election platform of the NDP for the next federal election in 2019.

In addition to attacking the agreement of Canada with Netflix, “an example of inequality,” according to Jagmeet Singh, several other policies have been adopted to please Quebec.

The NDP will propose for example to the electorate to revive the constitutional debate to include Quebec, as what has been asked by the prime minister Philippe Couillard in June, and to allow the taxpayers of the province not to make a single income tax return to Revenu Québec.

Finally, a government néodémocrate renégocierait agreements with tax havens to prevent canadian companies to repatriate their profits without tax.

The Journal reported in February that the Trudeau government has signed such agreements with two tax havens of the Caribbean, Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada.