Heather Scoffield talks the U.S. Federal Reserve on TVO's The Rundown

The House of Commons has agreed to fast-track legislation to boost the GST credit for 12 million taxpayers with low and modest incomes. Here’s Heather Scoffield’s initial analysis of the measure.

From a distance, it looks like a dirty trick. The United States leads the world into a negotiation for a global minimum tax. Eventually, painfully, everyone agrees to a complicated, finely-balanced pact that would ensure big multinational corporations all pay at least 15 per cent in taxes.

Canadian parliamentarians are taking a crack at squeezing out more government revenue from tax havens, and we wish them all the luck and stamina. Tucked away from the Conservative-to-Liberal floor-crossings and the nail-biting confidence-vote drama that have dominated this Parliament, MPs on the House of Commons finance committee were contemplating all the places where corporations put their profits.