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G-20 Nations Should Look to Canada for How to Build a Better Economy

By Scott Lincicome & James M. Roberts. Published June 24, FOXNews. Approved for Republication in the Quadra Quill

Leaders from 19 countries and the European Union will gather for the G-20 summit in Toronto b eginning June 26 to discuss how to stem the global recession and get the world back on the path to strong, stable economic growth. They picked a good spot, as the assembled leaders could learn a lot from their host country.

Since the global recession hit two years ago, Canada has implemented a broad array of free market tax and trade policies. As a result, our neighbor to the north has surpassed an increasingly statist, mercantilist United States in The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. More importantly, Canada is emerging from the “Great Recession” much more rapidly than the U.S. and virtually every other G-20 participant as well.

How has Canada done it? At the onset of the recession, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government moved aggressively to improve Canadian manufacturers’ global competitiveness. After extensive consultations with Canadian industries, Ottawa unilaterally eliminated tariffs on 1,755 different types of machinery, equipment and other manufacturing materials.

The Department of Finance presented a straightforward rationale for the move: “By reducing the cost of importing key factors of production, tariff relief encourages innovation and allows businesses to enhance their stock of capital equipment.” The Department projected that Canada’s complete liberalization of more than C$5 billion in imports will provide an additional C$300 million in annual duty savings for Canadian businesses. Canada didn’t stop with tariffs. It also slashed the corporate tax rate to 18 percent. And the rate will fall farther — to 16.5 percent next year and to 15 percent a year later.

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Deborah Addressing a Crowd at Her Home in July

Deborah Meredith is busy trying to get your vote! If you have not seen her door knocking, you may have seen her at recent events with support from Minister Stockwell Day, President of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, Vic Toews, Minister for Public Safety, and Jason Kenney, Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Multiculturalism.

Deborah Meredith Showing Her Strength at Point Grey Fiesta Days

The Point Grey Fiesta is a volunteer-driven neighbourhood celebration where participation is open to local community groups such as sports, arts and business. Deborah and her volunteers were out in force waving the Conservative flag and providing free face-painting to Quadra’s youngsters.

Congratulations to the Sauder BCom graduating class of 2010.

Deborah Meredith standing with one of her UBC Sauder Business School students and his family.

Among those graduating in Marketing is Boris Remes who originally came here in 2004 from Kazakhstan to finish high school. Included in the picture are Boris’ parents and youngest brother, who came from Kazakhstan to attend the ceremony.

Federal Government Invests in Emily Carr University

Deborah Meredith pictured in 3-D Glasses with Emily Carr University President Ron Burnett, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification Lynne Yelich and Rachal Greenfeld, Vancouver South Conservative candidate.

On May 20, 2010, Deborah attended as the Federal Government pledged to help establish the first western Canadian Stereoscopic 3-D Centre of Excellence at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Ms. Yelich announced $530,000 in Federal funding for the centre, which will proide research, education, and training in 3-D film technology.