"On September 19, the Prime Minister acted recklessly when he ordered his Finance Minister, Ralph Goodale, to wade into the income-trust market like a proverbial bull in a china shop. On that day, investors were put on notice that their popular income trusts were going to be targeted by a Liberal government seeking higher tax revenues from companies and investors.

The government continues to overtax Canadians and run multi-billion dollar surpluses, yet their first instinct is to attack an investment vehicle that can make the difference between bare survival and a dignified retirement for millions of Canadians.

As my party's finance critic, Monte Solberg, says, the success of income trusts represents a rare triumph for investors over the tax man. Let's not be so naive as to assume that the Liberals will do the right thing to protect taxpayers. We'll need to fight hard to keep what we have, and even harder to gain ground.

It's time to stand up to Paul Martin and stop his attack on seniors and investors."

Thank-you very much to the government of this country for once again helping the responsible in our country for trying to help themselves through frugal savings and investment, rather than rely on CPP and old age security. The premise that they are helping me/us by making the corporations that I have invested in pay fair tax is flawed. If I spent every dollar I ever earned and was not invested, then I would applaud this move, because unfairly taxed corporations would require the goverment to get their funding from the private citizens pockets. However, private citizens that have been frugal and saved cash for investment, are being penalized, by being asked to take a hit on their investment to fund this latest move.

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