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    THE GREAT CANADIAN TAX HOAX: The Unconstitutionality of Unlimited Federal Provincial Transfer Payments
    THE GREAT CANADIAN TAX HOAX: The Unconstitutionality of Unlimited Federal Provincial Transfer Payments
    THE GREAT CANADIAN TAX HOAX: The Unconstitutionality of Unlimited Federal Provincial Transfer Payments
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    THE GREAT CANADIAN TAX HOAX: The Unconstitutionality of Unlimited Federal Provincial Transfer Payments

    By BURTON KELLOCK and Daniel Crack

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    In this book, Burton Kellock explains how Canadian law teachers, their students, politicians and the general public have been induced to believe that the Canadian Constitution authorizes the Parliament of Canada to impose federal taxes for the purpose of donating the proceeds of those taxes to the governments of the provinces in

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    PublisherKinetics Design - kdbooks.ca
    Release dateFeb 11, 2020
    ISBN9781988360416
    THE GREAT CANADIAN TAX HOAX: The Unconstitutionality of Unlimited Federal Provincial Transfer Payments

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      THE GREAT CANADIAN TAX HOAX - BURTON KELLOCK

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      Copyright © 2020 Burton H. Kellock Q.C

      All rights reserved. No part of this

      publication may be reproduced or

      transmitted in any form or by any

      means, electronic or mechanical,

      including photocopying, recording,

      or any information storage and

      retrieval system, without permission

      in writing from the author.

      Published in 2020 by

      Kinetics Design, KDbooks.ca

      ISBN 978-1-988360-40-9 (paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-988360-41-6 (ebook)

      Cover and interior design, typesetting

      and printing by Daniel Crack,

      Kinetics Design, KDbooks.ca

      linkedin.com/in/kdbooks/

      Contact the author at Burt Kellock

      Introduction

      Author’s Note

      Chapter 1

      How Constitutionality is Determined

      Chapter 2

      The History of the BNA Act, Its Important Provisions and Their Judicial Interpretation

      Chapter 3

      The History of Federal/Provincial Transfer Payments

      Chapter 4

      The Proponent’s Propositions

      Part I
The Proponents’ Arguments

      Part 2
The C.L.O.C.’s Arguments

      Chapter 5

      Conclusions

      Introduction

      The purpose of this book is to debunk the entirely baseless proposition that unlimited Federal/Provincial fiscal transfers (F.P.F.T.) are authorized by the Canadian Constitution and therefore lawful. I will call those who assert the truth of this proposition, the Proponents.

      The Constitution of Canada today, consists largely of two British statutes, The British North America Act 1867 ("The BNA Act"), now named The Constitution Act 1867 and the Constitution Act 1982. Both are British statutes and have never been amended.

      At the time the BNA Act was enacted by the Parliament of the U.K., Canada was a British Colony ruled from Westminster. As such, the BNA Act could only be amended by the British Parliament. With the enactment of the Constitution Act 1982 (another British statute), both the BNA Act (which was renamed the Constitution Act 1867) and the Constitution Act 1982 became amendable in Canada, but as noted neither has been changed by amendment or otherwise.

      The purpose of the BNA Act was to establish Canada as a Federal State, which is to say, a system in which states unite under a central authority but are independent in internal affairs.¹ The BNA Act created a new state in British North America to be called Canada. As Canada was to be a federal state with a central or Federal government as well as Provincial governments, it was necessary for the BNA Act to delineate the governmental powers to be exercisable by the Federal Parliament on the one hand, and the Provincial Parliaments or Legislative Assemblies on the other. It is therefore not surprising that provisions of the BNA Act are largely devoted to that delineation.

      It is now usual to describe the Federal and Provincial governments as two levels of government, but this is the result of the entirely erroneous assumption that the Federal government is the pre-eminent authority and the Provincial governments are in some way subservient. Nothing could be further from the truth.

      Both the government in Ottawa and the governments located in the provincial capitals each have their own independent powers to levy taxes, and neither is authorized to raise money by taxation for the support of the other with one, and only one specific and severely limited exception, which is to found in section 118 which I will discuss fully in due course. That is why the division of powers provisions of the BNA Act constitute the key to understanding why F.P.F.T. are unauthorized. It is obvious that if F.P.F.T. were constitutional, the Provincial governments would not be independent, and Canada could not therefore be regarded as a federal state as the dictionary defines it.

      As we shall see, the BNA Act was enacted in 1867 to implement the agreement reached by the representatives of the then Canadian Provinces at a meeting held at Quebec City in 1864. They are now known, for obvious reasons, as the Fathers of Canadian Confederation. As of 1867, in the event that any doubt as to the meaning of any of the provisions of the BNA Act should arise, the rule of law to be applied to resolve that doubt was clear, and of very long standing. It was stated by Sir Edward Coke (pronounced Cook) in his Institutes of the Laws of England published between 1628 and 1644. Coke said that the task of the judiciary in interpreting an Act was to seek to interpret it, according to the intent of them that made it,"² and them that made the BNA Act are the Fathers of Confederation. That was the rule in Coke’s time, and it remains the rule today.

      Consequently, all that is necessary to know and understand why it is that the Parliament of Canada has no authority whatsoever to authorize F.P.F.T. is to be found in the records of the Quebec Conference, first published by Sir Joseph Pope in 1895, and now conveniently set forth in Professor Browne’s book entitled Documents on the Confederation of British North America.³ That is where you will find what them that made the BNA Act intended concerning F.P.F.T..

      For reasons which I cannot even begin to explain, the Proponents are entirely ignorant of the proceedings of the Quebec Conference and the decisions made there, as to what the Canadian Constitution would and would not provide for, in respect to F.P.F.T., which renders their opinions absolutely worthless.

      The leading proponent today is Dr. Peter Hogg, a former Dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and the author of a textbook entitled (not surprisingly) Constitutional Law of Canada. I will refer hereinafter to that work as C.L.O.C. In C.L.O.C., the author states that the power of the Federal government to authorize F.P.F.T. is nowhere explicit in the BNA Act, but that is not correct. C.L.O.C. goes on to assert that because the power to authorize F.P.F.T. is not explicit it must be implied, which is to say read into the BNA Act.

      It must be read in (says Professor Hogg) because the BNA Act empowers Parliament to levy taxes, to legislate in relation to public property and to appropriate (i.e. authorize the spending of, federal funds.) That assertion is sheer nonsense.

      As noted, C.L.O.C.’s assertion that the transfer of Federal tax money to the Provinces is "nowhere explicit in the BNA Act," is false. It is clearly false as anyone who has read sections 102, 118 and 126 of the BNA Act can see. Section 102 is to be found in the BNA Act under the heading Revenues; Debts; Assets; Taxation, which provides as follows:

      "VIII. REVENUES; DEBTS; ASSETS; TAXATION

      102. All Duties and Revenues over which the respective Legislatures of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick before and at the Union had and have Power of Appropriation, except such Portions thereof as are by this Act reserved to the respective Legislatures of the provinces, or are raised by them in accordance with the special Powers conferred on them by this Act, shall form One Consolidated Revenue Fund, to be appropriated for the Public Service of Canada in the Manner and subject to the Charges in this Act provided."

      An appropriation is quite simply a governmental authorization to spend money.

      As this provision was drafted before the BNA Act came into force, the powers of appropriation it provides for are those which at the time section 102 was drafted, belonged to the then Provinces that existed before Confederation, which, when united, by Confederation, would produce the new state of Canada. Prior to Confederation, the word Canada had been the name given to the then Province of Canada, which was created in 1840 by the union of the former Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. Those former Provinces became, after Confederation, the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

      Once the BNA Act came into force, Canada became a new federal state comprised of what had formerly been the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. This is made clear by the provisions of section 126 of the BNA Act.

      "126. Such Portions of the Duties and Revenues over which the respective Legislatures of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick had before the Union Power of Appropriation as are by this Act reserved to the respective Governments or Legislatures of the provinces, and all Duties and Revenues raised by them in accordance with the special Powers conferred upon them by this Act, shall in each Province form One Consolidated Revenue Fund to be appropriated for the Public Service of the Province."

      There cannot be any doubt whatsoever that the Public Service of Canada was not to be the public service of any Province and that after confederation, all money raised by Federal taxation

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