Friday, pitching his tax break plan and "tax fairness" — as a government press release calls it — to a small business forum. Morneau and Small Business and Tourism Minister Bardish Chagger visited Communitech, a small-business based incubator focused on southern Ontario's tech sector. Tax backtrackMorneau has also climbed down from another controversial tax proposal to address the concerns of farmers and fishers. The finance minister said the government is abandoning the proposed tax reform that would have restricted the conversion of income into capital gains. Scheer also in regionEarlier in the morning, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer also spoke to two small business forums in Waterloo Region.

Source: CBC News October 20, 2017 14:07 UTC