Repeal Steam Age Tax Break

Saskatchewan legislators yesterday celebrated formal repeal of an 1881 vintage tax holiday for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Both the Commons and Senate repealed a legal clause declaring the CPR “shall be forever free from taxation” on its main line across the Prairies: “We will always be on Saskatchewan’s side.”

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