XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Tue, 31 May 2011 23:06:40 -0600, Canuck57 wrote:   
      
   > On 31/05/2011 8:57 AM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 31 May 2011 06:21:04 -0700, Alan Baggett wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> The teachers work at a school on the Waterhen Lake First Nation, near   
   >>> Meadow Lake, about 300 kilometres north of Saskatoon.   
   >>>   
   >>> Some of them live in accommodations supplied by the reserve and pay   
   >>> $250 per month in rent, a rate that is below market level for housing   
   >>> in nearby communities such as Meadow Lake.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >> That's no benefit, that's a hardship.  And after the debacle with those   
   >> Residential Schools, there's no question that it's the GoC's   
   >> responsibility to deliver education to people *in situ*.   
   >>   
   >> Dhu   
   >   
   > Not at all hardship, I am sure the salary is healthy.   
   >   
   $alary only goes so far when it comes to no running water and   
   outhouses in 50 below.   
      
   Dhu   
      
   > To me (my opinion) it depends on something not fully quantified.  If a   
   > teacher has a real full time qualified residence off reserve, say 200   
   > miles away, that is owns a HOME that they live in and call home for   
   > taxes, banking, licenses, and don't rent it out or anything, and use the   
   > reserve residence to avoid travel, say M/T/W/T type, then it should not   
   > be taxed or maybe even deductible as an employment expense.   
   >   
   > But if it is their real residence, taxable benefit.  You bet.   
   >   
   > But then, I would tax natives too.  I don't subscribe to racial,   
   > cultural or location biases in taxation.  Laws should be exactly the   
   > same for everyone.  The rest is racism or discrimination.  Rent there   
   > should be like rent anywhere.   
      
      
      
      
      
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