Conservative leadership contender Pierre Poilievre maintains high taxes paid by Canadians are discouraging employment, something economists say is a real problem.
In a YouTube video called “Make work pay,” Poilievre draws attention to the marginal effective tax rate (METR), which measures what someone pays the government on every new dollar earned. The government charges workers in two ways, he explained—through taxes, such as income taxes and gas taxes, and through clawbacks of income-tested government programs, such as Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement benefits for working seniors.
