A taxpayer responds to the Canada Revenue Agency*

* the Canadian version of the rapacious and totally unacceptable IRS. Ed.

The CRA sent a Canadian taxpayer's return back to him because of his answer to one of the questions.

In response to the question "Do you have anyone dependent on you?" the impoverished Canuck wrote, "2.1 million illegal immigrants, 1.1 million crack heads who get their drugs from a government "safe supply" depot, 4.4 million unemployable scroungers -- many of whom "work" at the CRA -- and 80,000 convicted criminals in over 85,000 prisons.

"But wait, there's more -- 450 idiots in Parliament, an entire group that call themselves "senators", plus thousands of "politicians at four or five levels of government, and tens of thousands of "consultants" and "administrators".

The CRA replied that the taxpayer's response was "unacceptable", to which he replied, "Who did I leave out?"

Thanks and a tip o' the toque to Agent 9. Lang may yer lum reek!

"Vandalee Industries" at heart of multi-million dollar scam

Remember "Art Vandelay" and "Vandelay Industries", a fictional character and fictional business from a great episode of one of Walt's favourite sitcoms, Seinfeld? Of course you do. If not, this photo should jog your memory.

The name "Vandelay Industries" must have rung a bell in the mind of an investigator with the Canada Revenue Agency (Canuck version of the IRS) as he went through the handwritten expense claim submitted by a Nova Scotia company that claimed it had done C$117,850 in business with "Vandalee Industries". In a sworn affidavit, the snooper wrote, "Based on an internet search, and from my personal knowledge, I know that 'Vandelay Industries' is often a pop culture reference to a fictional company created in the television sitcom Seinfeld." (Walt wonders how much time the copper claimed to have put in doing the "internet search"!)

Based on the affidavit, the CRA got search warrants and production orders related to ten companies registered in Canada's Ocean Playground (TM). After following the paper trails, they charged three sisters and their mother with fraud offences totalling C$3.6 million ($2.7 mil in real money) related to GST/HST refunds.

For non-Canadian readers, Agent 3 explains that GST/HST is a kind of value-added tax. Sellers of goods and services are supposed to collect the tax on everything they sell and remit that to the federal and provincial governments. But they can deduct the GST/HST they've paid on inputs and operating expenses. If your business pays out more than it takes in, you can be entitled to a refund. And that's what the ladies -- not very good businesspeople -- did, making claims for large refunds, with their claims supported by a slew of fake invoices, expense reports and sales records.

Georgette Young, her sisters Angela MacDonald and Nadia Saker, and their mother, Lydia Saker, purported to be the proprietors of a group of companies engaged in publishing cookbooks, making salad dressing and wigs, catering and selling fur coats for kids. The ten companies under their control claimed to have done $56 million in sales out of a modest home in North Sydney NS, a small storefront in nearby Boularderie, a local farm, and a house in Kentville NS.

At least on paper, their sales were impressive, including 54,000 cookbooks in six months, hundreds of children's coats sold for a grand apiece, and half-million-dollar orders for frozen seafood lasagna, spaghetti and meatball dinners. All this, according to court records, even though the companies had no employees and, in some cases, didn't even have bank accounts.

Sadly, even though business was booming, the ladies failed to collect much of the GST/HST that was due, which led to their claiming large refunds. Before CRA auditors became suspicious, the companies got refunds totalling C$276,000. Claims of more than C$3 million were ultimately denied. In almost every case, CRA investigators said they couldn't find any trace of the stores or other enterprises the family companies were purported to have done business with. Even the addresses didn't appear to exist.

They included sales of C$400,000 to Upstairs Department Store, at 41 Hissiem Street in North Sydney. Apparently that's just up the road from Tycoon Book Distributors (C$433,125 in sales) and AMM Groceries (C$2,534,000 in sales). Quite something for a town with a population of just 5700 souls.

But what of "Vandalee Industries"? According to court records, that name was twice listed on an expense summary for Kishk Inc., a food company operated by Ms Young. The services provided? "Management, marketing and packaging". Investigators concluded that "the majority of these transactions are believed to be fictitious and included on the Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax Returns in an attempt to obtain false refunds." DUH!

The ladeez are supposed to appear in a Sydney courtroom even as this is written. They each face ten counts of fraud, to which they have not yet entered pleas. We must therefore believe that they are innocent... until proven otherwise.

By the company they keep shall ye know them

Canada's Liberal Party, which presently forms the federal government (but just till October 2019!) and ruled the province of Ontario for 15 years until a fed-up public turfed them out in June, has often been accused of cozying up to Muslims. Putting the welcome mat out for Muslim refugees, M-103 (which prohibits saying anything bad about Islam), a Somali-born Muslim as Minister for Refugees -- it's all part of the irreversible browning of Canada. Not to mention Isalmization [M-103! Ed.] and adding 1000s of Mohammeds to the Liberal voter base.

Every once in a while a story emerges to prove that what the liberal progressives claim is a nutty conspiracy theory is actually true. Here's an interesting photo, taken in 2013, showing John Fraser (second from left), a member of the Ontario legislature and now leader of the Liberal Party in that province, and David McGuinty (second from right), a Liberal member of the federal parliament (and brother of the second-last Liberal premier of Ontario) at the Assalam mosque in Ottawa, the capital of Canuckistan.

The Assalam mosque is notable for having just been stripped of its status as a charity by the Canada Revenue Agency (the Canadian version of the IRS). Why? Well... errr... because of "activities that promote hate and intolerance". ☪ Hate and intolerance. In a temple of the Religion of Peace™. Can you imagine ?!?!™

Losing its charitable status means the mosque no longer benefits from the tax advantages enjoyed by government-registered charities. Even better, it can't collect money to support Islamic terrorism and allow donors to claim their contributions as income tax deductions.

The CRA took the action against the Ottawa Islamic Centre and Assalam Mosque following audits that raised concerns about the Islamic extremists who appeared there as guest speakers. In a letter to the mosque's executive, a CRA bureaucrat wrote, "Many of the views expressed by the organization's speakers are misogynistic, homophobic, racist and/or promote violence." Again... imagine that!

The CRA also expressed concern that "radicalized individuals" had attended the mosque. One such jihadi-wannabe, Ashton Larmond, is now doing time in the federal rock hockey arena for attempting to join ISIS.

Canada's Global News published documents detailing the results of the CRA audits. The agency admitted being unable to determine exactly what the various speakers said while rousing the rabble at the mosque, but found views publicly expressed elsewhere by a number of the speakers and found them to be at odds with the "public benefit| required of charities under Canadian tax law.

The documents singled out Abu Usamah At-thahabi, Bilal Philips, Hakkeem Quick and Saed Rageah, all of whom had spoken at the Assalam mosque one or more times. According to the CRA, Mr At-thahabi has called women "deficient", said Christians and Jews were enemies (no surprise there), spoke about throwing homosexuals off a mountain, and said apostates -- people who leave the Islamic faith -- should be killed.

Mr Philips has been denied entry to several countries (but not Canada, thanks to the Liberal open border policy) and has been described as "anti-Semitic, intolerant and 'contrary to integration'", whatever that means. In a video described in the CRA documents, he said Islam was opposed to terrorism but "does not shrink from using violence to gain some of its ends, to establish itself in certain areas/to gain control of Muslim lands."

Mr Quick had "advocated for the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to be liberated from the filth of the Jews" and was condemned by the New Zealand Broadcasting Authority in 2004 for what was termed "hate speech" towards homosexuals, the CRA said. Mr Rageah runs a Toronto Islamic centre. The CRA quoted an Australian newspaper report that said he had been denied entry to the country and "displayed anti-Western and homophobic attitudes."

According to the documents, the CRA also has concerns with regard to Mr. Rageahès relationship with the Al-Magrib Institute, and his role as founder and leader of the Journey of Faith conference, which has afforded individuals known for their extremist opinions an opportunity to address thousands of gatherers in Toronto.

Walt is shocked, shocked, not by the list of provocations and offences committed by these apostles of militant Islam, but by the fact that the Assalam Mosque and Ottawa Islamic Centre are actually being punished (albeit mildly) for hosting them. You'd think with Liberal friends like Messrs Fraser and McGuinty they'd be able to preach hatred with impunity.