If the gov would bother to tax every small ticket item that comes in canada it would run in the red, that is why it lets slide a lot of things even if it does not make any sense sometimes and you feel lucky because you did not pay duties or tax... the reason is above.
It would make more sense for Canada to raise the import limit to $200, like the limit for cross-border shoppers. You can write your MP at the House of Commons, Ottawa ON, K1A 0A6, about this and you don’t even have to stamp the envelope (Mark it OHMS instead).
And it would be more useful than many of the programs hidden in the Conservative's omnibus bills.
i can see my tax money flying.... money that could have been spent on roads, hospital and education being spent on stacks of papers that have to be stored and handle by a bunch of bureaucrats when there was no need for it.
Those costs are being paid by Pitney Bowes to low wage workers in Kentucky (which I think is a ‘right to work’ state which effectively bans unions.) The US federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. They also have infrastructure costs and of course they do actually move the parcel from their plant to your doorstep, which is never gonna be free.
For the record, businesses that collect and remit taxes for governments get a small rebate as a wage for their time. This includes Pitney Bowes and the guy who runs the Couche-Tard on the corner.
