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   You should think long and hard about even considering throwing over a   
   good NDP government for a 1% hike in your PST.   
   Other provinces have it as hard, and harder, than your province does.   
   Compare,  and remember the 'frying pan into the fire' analogy.   
      
   It was a rightwing party that tried to force the HST onto British   
   Columbians.  And that would have put federal taxes and provincial taxes   
   onto many items not before subject to one or both of them.  Learn from   
   our mistake . . .  keep rightwing governments out of your pockets.   
      
      
   Province 			GST 		PST 		HST 		Provincial Tax Information   
   Alberta 			5% 		n/a 		n/a 		Alberta Tax and Revenue Administration   
   BC 				5% 		7% 		n/a 		BC Consumer Taxes   
   Manitoba 		5% 		8% 		n/a 		Manitoba Retail Sales Tax   
   New Brunswick 	n/a 		n/a 		13% 	New Brunswick Taxes   
   Newfoundland 	n/a 		n/a 		13% 	Taxes in Newfoundland and Labrador   
   NWT 			5% 		n/a 		n/a 		NWT Taxation   
   Nova Scotia 		n/a 		n/a 		15% 	Information for Nova Scotia Taxpayers   
   Nunavut 			5% 		n/a 		n/a 		Nunavut Taxes   
   Ontario 			n/a 		n/a 		13% 	Ontario HST   
   PEI 				n/a 		n/a 		14% 	PEI HST   
   Quebec 			5% 		9.975% 	n/a 		Quebec GST and QST   
   Saskatchewan 	5% 		5% 		n/a 		Saskatchewan Provincial Sales Tax   
   Yukon 			5% 		n/a 		n/a 		Yukon Taxation   
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   The Canadian Press - June 27, 2014   
      
   Manitoba Opposition leader says fight over sales tax increase will continue   
      
      
   WINNIPEG - Manitoba Opposition Leader Brian Pallister says he will   
   continue to fight the government's sales tax increase, despite opinion   
   polls that suggest the battle is not winning over many voters.   
      
   Pallister says he'd rather be respected than popular and the tax hike is   
   hurting families across the province.   
      
   Recent opinion polls suggest the NDP government's popularity has dropped   
   sharply since the sales tax jumped to eight per cent from seven last summer.   
      
   But the government's losses have gone mostly to the Liberals or the   
   undecided camp.   
      
   Tory support in a Probe Research poll this week was pegged at 45 per   
   cent — very close to the 43.5 per cent the party won in the 2011 election.   
      
   The Tories dragged out the legislature session last year to try to block   
   the tax hike, and took the issue to court, arguing the increase violated   
   the province's balanced budget law.   
      
   The judge in the case has reserved his decision.   
      
   The NDP government has said the extra cash was needed to finance road   
   work, flood-prevention projects and other infrastructure.   
      
   "(Pallister's) decision to roll back the one-point increase in the PST   
   would immediately mean reducing spending on roads, bridges, flood   
   protection and clean water infrastructure by $276 million," government   
   press secretary Caedmon Malowany wrote in an email.   
      
   Pallister said the tax jump must be reversed.   
      
   "I respect Manitobans ... and I respect the fact that they deserve to   
   get more out of what they do, when they work and when they save, than   
   they're getting in this province under the NDP."   
      
   Pallister has said he would reverse the sales tax increase in his first   
   term if he were elected premier. He has also promised he would cut   
   government spending by not filling some public-sector jobs when they   
   became vacant.   
      
   He repeated a pledge Friday to not layoff any front-line civil servants   
   if elected. He said his plan is very different from the 100,000 public   
   sector cuts promised by Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak in the   
   Ontario election.   
      
   "I felt that the approach that was taken by the Ontario campaign team   
   was irresponsible and dangerous, and it's not the approach we would take."   
      
   Many public-sector workers are approaching retirement age in the next   
   five years, Pallister said, and non-essential positions could be cut   
   through attrition.   
      
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