[PIGMI] Activision Blizzard lobbying for new R&D tax changes

[Brendan Ragan]

Other than a few things that Kat said below, this is a possible reason why Canada may not be looking so good:

Unemployment is currently at 7.8% http://www.hrmguide.net/canada/jobmarket/canadian-unemployment.htm
Their Deficit in the 2010 budget is $49.2 Billion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canadian_federal_budget) (They've been running deficits since 2008 and the total debts are up at $500-600 million now) 

The Harper government is conservative and is less likely to approve such tax cuts than the current australian layout (mainly because of the large influence the greens and independents have - it's likely they will sell said cuts to the independents as something that could be shoved out in the bush (a.la the bunbury technology park that's happening here in WA))

Another thing to remember is: These companies don't, generally, make the majority of their income in Australia. They make it overseas - they don't pay *all* that much of their tax here. 

As for Kat's comments below: Hey, at least it's only really hot for 2 months of the year, the rest of it's pretty good :) Most people would take 40 above for a few days instead of 40 below for weeks :P (Of course Vancouver isn't like this..)

And I second the big ups to Nick, Minh and the LMG/OneTwenty Crew! 

On 10/03/2011, at 10:20 , Kat Black wrote:

> If it weren't for the horrible hot weather, I'd say there's no better
> place in the world to be if you want to be an inde developer.

> Big ups to you, Nick, Minh and the others who have helped to make that happen
> over the past decade or so in Perth.

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