The is presentation discusses policies of Harper and its impact on revenue/economy/consumer spending

1. Federal Government Fiscal
Policy Review
By: Paul Young, CPA, CGA

2. GDP

3. Trade

4. Trade

5. Trade Deals - enforced

6. Trade Deals completed
• South Korea
• China (FIPA - http://www.cme-mec.ca/?lid=JCKNC-E742G-
1W6JA&comaction=show&cid=3BQUJ-U9UKB-6PRJU
• European Trade Deal

7. MFG Sales

8. GDP

9. GDP

10. Tax Impact

11. Consumer Spending

12. Harper Polices
• Tax Cuts – 17.3 personal tax cuts and 13.1 GST Cuts -
http://globalnews.ca/news/1356467/tax-cuts-since-2005-net-canadians-
30b-pbo/
• Reduction in duties/excise taxes as part of closing the gap between Canada
and USA (http://www.budget.gc.ca/efp-peb/2014/pub/chap03-eng.html or
http://www.retailcouncil.org/advocacy/federal-budget-2014-released
• Tightening mortgage rules (http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/cmhc-tightens-mortgage-
insurance-rules-as-housing-market-cools-1.1793186
• Income Tax Splitting
(http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/11/05/andrew-coyne-conservatives-
tax-package-with-income-splitting-corrects-inequality/

13. Corporate Taxes

14. R&D Ranking

15. Harper Foreign Direct Investment

16. Employment Trends

17. Program Spending

18. Harper Program spending

19. Interprovincial Transfers

20. Infrastructure Funding

21. Gas Tax Fund

22. Build Canada Fund

23. Federal Government spending on
infrastructure