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Northerners don’t pay taxes? Federal minister backtracks on remark – CBC

Jun 27, 2016

‘I would be upset if somebody thought I was trying to make that a race issue,’ says MaryAnn Mihychuk

A federal minister is backtracking after remarking in an interview with a CBC reporter that northern Canadians don’t pay taxes.

The comment was by made by Canada’s minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, MaryAnn Mihychuk, during a taped phone interview with a reporter in Iqaluit.

The focus of the interview was on student summer jobs in Nunavut.

Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/maryann-mihychuk-federal-minister-northern-taxes-1.3654613

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