Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation / La Fédération canadienne des coopératives de travail
Registration:
38
of
38
(2024-09-24
to
present)
Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter
Subject matters
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Details
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Categories
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Climate, Environment
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A bold approach to climate change regulation by Canada which includes zero carbon emissions by 2050, and a focus on climate justice for the most vulnerable.This is a focus on an integrated and cross-departmental regulatory approach to reducing GHG emissions in the Canadian economy.
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Policies or Program, Regulation
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Economic Development
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Creating a Canadian Cooperative Development Fund. Cofunded by the federal government and the cooperative sector. This Fund would provide large and medium sized capitalization loans to new and existing cooperatives
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Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
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Economic Development, Employment and Training
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Creation of a program for business transfer to worker-owned co-operatives, as well as a technical assistance program to facilitate worker co-op development.
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Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
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Taxation and Finance
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Providing comparable tax incentives for sales of conventional businesses to worker cooperatives as for sales to employee ownership trusts.
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Regulation
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Taxation and Finance
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Self-directed RRSP rules re: prohibited investments. We continue to seek to have the rule changes made in 2011 reversed or mitigated, as they affect worker co-ops.
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Regulation
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Economic Development
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The creation of a federal Cooperative Investment Plan which would provide a federal tax credit for cooperative members and employees who invest in producer (such as agriculture, fishery, forestry) and employee owned cooperatives
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Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
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