e-1427 (Tax system)

Petition to the House of Commons

• Local governments are having to reduce staffing and funding in other departments in order to increase funding to police services as in Calgary, Alberta;
• Recent statistics indicate health services wait times have climbed from an average of 9 weeks to a new high of 22 weeks;
• The Government of Canada has made a goal to increase immigration by 300,000 to 400,000 immigrants per year, or approximately 1 percent of the total population which will place additional strains on front line municipal services;
• The number of people seeking refugee status has increased and the number of people awaiting deportation has tripled;
• The necessary costs of processing these increased cases have not been provided;
• The federal government believes it to be beneficial to increase the national debt in order to fund initiatives such as infrastructure, the opioid crisis, gang violence, even proposing $480 million to buy voting shares in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which will finance projects overseas; and
• The government has not committed funds to maintain the deteriorating social service infrastructure or to increase support for provincial and local police, fire, Emergency Medical Services and health services.