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‘We need to stop funneling this money to the top’: Mitton on the Green call for a windfall tax

A woman with long brown hair, wearing a green shirt and dark-coloured jacket is shown against a backdrop of wood panelling. Graphics on the lower third of the screenshot identify her as a Green Party MLA.
Green Party MLA Megan Mitton speaks in the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly in a Nov. 18, 2020 file photo. Screenshot taken via the Green Caucus website.
Erica Butler - CHMA - Sackville • NB | 15-06-2022
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After weeks of back and forth in the provincial legislature between the governing PCs and opposition Liberals, arguing about which tax should be cut to help with rising gas prices, New Brunswick’s Green Party is taking a different approach.

Green leader David Coon has teamed up with his colleagues in PEI and BC to ask the federal government for a one time windfall tax on oil and gas corporate profits, to be redistributed via rebate cheques to people struggling with affordability.

Memramcook Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton says its something the UK and some EU states have done, and is being considered in the US as well. CHMA spoke with Mitton this week to find out more about the windfall tax proposal:

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