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Stephen Harper says it’s actually not a fake lake. In an aggressive defence of the government’s plan to spend $1.9 million on a summit display that includes an artificial lake, the prime minister is calling it a well-planned “marketing pavilion” that will promote Canadian tourism. The government argues the indoor lake itself only costs $57,000 and the rest of the $1.9-million display is well worth it because it could encourage 3,000 journalists to tell the world how wonderful Canada is. At least $1.2 billion is being budgeted for security, hospitality and infrastructure for the two summits later this month.
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Miss CHIN bikini 2009 winner, Kaitlyn Wong, poses with 2010 contestants yesterday at the CHIN International Picnic media launch at the Liberty Grand. The annual multicultural event, slated for July 1, 3 and 4 at Exhibition Place, attracts 250,000 people annually.
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The cheque is in the mail. Revenue Canada will mail HST rebates to 6.6 million Ontario residents this week, even though the 13 per cent sales tax doesn’t take effect until July 1. The rebates — the opposition parties call them bribes — are to help families deal with the impact of the HST in its first year. About 17 per cent of consumer purchases, including gasoline and home heating fuel, will rise by Rebate eight per • Ontario coucent be- ples with comcause bined inthey are comes of less currently than $160,000 exempt will be eligifrom On- ble for HST retario’s bates totalling provincial $1,000, while sales tax. singles earn“That’s ing less than money $80,000 will that we’re qualify for passing on $300. directly to our families from the federal government to help them cope with the introduction of the HST,” Premier Dalton McGuinty said yesterday. British Columbia will also switch to the HST July 1, but unlike Ontario, isn’t offering rebates to offset the impact of the new tax. THE CANADIAN PRESS HST
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Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has tabled new legislation meant to prevent crooked immigration consultants from cheating vulnerable newcomers of their savings or encouraging them to lie to stay in Canada.
The measures would make it a crime for unauthorized consultants to provide immigration advice for a fee. They could face up to two years in jail or a $50,000 fine for even trying to engage in immigration fraud. Kenney is also delisting
the self-regulating Canadian Society for Immigration Consultants as the body that decides who can be a legal consultant. CSIC has been criticized for charging too much for membership, lacking transparency, and turning a blind eye to un-
scrupulous consultants in its own ranks, he said. Instead, the minister plans to set up a new regulatory body, accountable to the government and with the power and will to police its members. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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