Canada Post and other government cash grabs at all levels

I received a small parcel from Idaho. Postal cost, $5.99 USA ($6.25 CDN). I asked the postal clerk how much to mail it back. She weighed it and said, $11.40 over 75% more but, she added, it's going out of the country so you don't have to pay GST. Going to a Canadian address you'd have an extra 13% GST tacked on. I raised this issue with my MP, Peter Stoffer NDP, and he explained that the Post Office is no longer a government service but is now a Crown Cooperation. As such they are operating with annual profits which they turn over to the federal government. They have turned over hundreds of millions over the years. Canada Postal Service? Just another way to gouge the public.This great Canadian institution sells flat rate shipping to the USA giant E Bay but refuses it to Canadians and Canadian companies. As usual we are bled to the max.
A new outfit on the scene, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority or CIRA, deemed necessary and mandated into existence by Ottawa but not paid for by Ottawa. The extra $8 plus that is costs to register a .CA name goes to these people. Thy collect over $10 million a year from Canadians using .CA web sites.
Last (in this letter) but not least the combined $76 billion dollars drained from UIC and Canada pensions. Successive federal governments have raided these funds taking $56 billion from UIC and $20 billion from the pension funds. Illegal you say? It would be in the private sector but the politically appointed hacks on the Supreme Court ruled in Ottawa's favour in both these cases. How does Ottawa plan on covering these loses? Easy by going back into the bottomless pockets of the Canadian tax payer and worker. UIC rates will be rising shortly. Every day it becomes clearer that there are two sets of laws one for the masses and one for Government. If the governments don't like the laws governing they can......

(A) Ignore them (Halifax City Council)

(B) Change them (Nova Scotia NDP Provincial government) or...

(C) Have the courts OK what you did (Ottawa).

Perhaps it's time we just all sat down and did nothing until Federal, Provincial and Civic governments start sending our money with the dedication and care that they collect it from us.

As always you can contact your elected representative using the list on the left.

Later this week, How do I tax thee, let me count the ways.

Beware of Aliant Bell cell phone service

Beware of Aliant/Bell cell phone service. I got tired of paying all the extra add on's from this duo so I changed servers. I had my numbers switched over and, I thought, I would then cancel my Aliant/Bell service. Not so says Aliant's call phone service supplier Bell. We suspend you service for 30 days for which you will be billed as if it was operational THEN we will cancel it.
When I took the service I went into the Aliant Kiosk and it took just minutes to be connected to the Aliant/Bell system. Why does it take 30 days to be disconnected?
If my service is suspended by Aliant/Bell how can I be billed.
I will be paying them for a month's service that I will not receive. I will be paying them in addition to paying my service supplier. I will be paying them despite the fact that I told them to disconnect me as quickly and easily as they connected me.
In my opinion stay away from this duo unless you cannot get anybody else.