Another view of tax by Jaclyn, our editorial assistant from Vancouver...

The Canadian government is planning a spring budget geared to get its citizens spending.
Will Gordon Brown be preparing the same for the UK?
Following the stock market crash of 1929, the American president, Herbert Hoover, believed in a laissez-faire form of administration.
Simply put, this mentality did nothing to aid the crippled world economy.
Hopefully today, we’ve learned a thing or two.
Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, is taking steps to prevent ‘let do’ government getting actively involved in his country’s economy.
Gordon Brown has lowered VAT and offered a second bank bailout, but should he also take a lesson from one of Britain’s colonies?

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