ie i | | Creeks will | rampage in wet years Dear Editor: The.. controversy © about 2848 Bellevue Ave, is an Opportune Occusion. to point out that Rodgers Creek — like _ Marr and other creeks — can go on the rampage in excep- - tionally wet years, It is unwise to build without awareness of ” this fact. Most. neighbors of North Shore creeks do not know creek names. -» i People in new houses on upper Chairlift. confuse East Fork Rodgers Creek with Marr, which is Slightly further - to the east, Raymond Spencer Rodgers . Vancouver ‘for your i WINBOws| | & HOME y Roe CONSULTATION: I 922-4668 : Ff 2413 Marine Drive, West Van bes - ee EXPIRES AUG. 31 \\ ERTS sa ff / | MINI. BLINDS ; eh : ' : are ae a “i : q fi Sada ARORA ease BN IME AEY Citi 9 Cee sats SR ENA Ae MRT ARE OONOD RED Y R PL E “f , Z at ) Sion ‘ Ci) 2 CBC Toronto irritates Dear Editor: ! find it hard to believe that even CBC: Toronto would repeat and waste more. txpayers’ money again on such an inane program as High School Confidential. Along with other such tasteless productions as Kids in the Hall and the constant. irritating, needless presence .of the CBC superim- From time to time throughout the year, { receive letters from con- stituents asking me about the case of The Lord Nelson Hotel. The writ- ers want to know if it is true that the owners of the Lord Nelson Hotel in Nova Scotia have not paid income tax since 1$50 when the Supreme Court of Canada is alleged to have TAXING AUTHORITY Clause 91, subsection 3 of The Constitution ‘Act of 1867 and the ’ British North America Act sets out the original powers. of Parliament in Canada. and is quite clear about Federal taxing authority. The entire clause is too long to reprint here but the relevant part reads“... the exclu- sive ‘ Legislative Authority of. the Parliament of Canada extends to all Matters coming within the Classes af . Subjects next herein-after. enumerat- ed; thatistosay,- — - 1. The. amendment from time to time of the Constitution of Canada .. 4A. The Public Debt and Property 2. The Regulation of Trade. and Commerce.) 2A. Unemployment Insurance. . ; 3. The saising.of money by any Mode or System of Taxation” Subsection 3 leaves no doubt that. the .Federal Government has the ; authority to impose income taxes, and the.1924 case of Caron vs The King confirmed . this” situation, so_it-just ” remains to explain the confusion over the case of the Lord Nelson Hotel. ‘A COMPLEX CASE. The Lord Nelson court challenge © centered on Nova Scotia's Bill 136 of the late 1940s .which - would . have “allowed the delegation of FEDERALLY CONTROLLED employment and taxa- tion powers to the Province, and vice versa. The Supreme Court datetmined that the legislation was unconstitution- al on the grounds that Canada and the - provinces. could not. delegate one another's constitutionally determined law making a and taxation Powers bo each other. - . ted white, m.p. THE LORD NELSON HOTEL ; ruled federal income taxes to be posed on just about everything. including imported. American sporting events, High School Confidential — only served © to emphusize the juvenile, thought- less. artsy-fartsy mentality that pervades ‘the Toronto establish- ment. Denis Mason West Vancouyer "advertorial Aug. = illegal. ‘My research on this subject has clearly established that the Supreme Court of Canada did NOT tule income taxes to be illegal in The Lord Nelson Case, and neither is there any evi- dence that the Hotel subsequently did not pay income taxes. In other words, the provinces and Canada are only authorized to collect the specific types of taxes allocated to their respective level of government by the Constitution. From this ruling has grown: the creative speculation that Federal income tax is unconstitutional. Variations on the theme have suggest- ed that because. the Federal Government collects provincial income . taxes on behalf of the provinces, there is delegation of the power of. taxation and provincial . income taxes are also illegal, These theories have been circulating now for 45 years so if a loophole existed, you . could be sure that it would have been widely used, or closed, by now. The “truth is, there never was a loophole and you cannot escape paying your income taxes by citing the case oi the’. “Lord Nelson Hotel, REVENUE SHORTFALL Even though virtually all of us feel that our taxes are already too high, the : Federal Government continues to run an annual deficit of around $37 billion. 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