Dear Editor:
Re: HST boosts Ontario, Letters to the editor, Burnaby NOW, May 30
Subject: Re: Joe Sawchuck's opinion on HST
If the HST is such a grand thing, as Joe Sawchuck contends, then why is it that the unemployment rates in Canada are lowest in those areas of Canada that do not have the HST, with the exception of P.E.I. at 11 per cent, the Yukon at 9.5 per cent, N.W.T. at 9.1 per cent and Nunavut at 14.8 per cent? Make no mistake, the lies told by politicians about the benefits first with GST and later with the HST are just that: lies. The first being that there would be a huge increase in investments and large increases in employment. The greatest lie of all was that prices would be reduced as a result of corporations passing along their savings in the way of reduced prices to consumers. Meanwhile, prices continue to increase at record levels, especially in the area of food. Unemployment has not improved and is about to get much worse in Ontario, where it was just announced that 2,000 jobs are being eliminated as a result of GM closing a plant in Oshawa.
James McQueen, Burnaby
