Lawyers for Fair Taxation in the Law Times

Ron Stang of the Law Times interviewed Omar Ha-Redeye on Lawyers for Fair Taxation:

As the Ontario government released its budget last week, Lawyers for Fair Taxation issued a press release calling on Finance Minister Dwight Duncan to “Tax us. Ontario is worth it.”

Lawyer James Morton says he readily signed the petition calling for higher taxes.
The weekend before, Toronto lawyer Omar Ha-Redeye formed the organization as an offshoot of a group created just prior to that called Doctors for Fair Taxation.

Ha-Redeye has long known the person behind that group, Dr. Michael Rachlis, a health policy expert at the University of Toronto and long a defender of Canada’s public health-care system.

The physicians and lawyers involved have one overall objective: to have richer Canadians — a group they freely admit they are a part of — pay a greater share of their income in taxes, especially at a time when governments are running huge deficits and social services are fraying.

Ha-Redeye says the fact that doctors took the lead shows the relative lack of social consciousness among the legal profession compared to its health-care counterparts.

“It really does emphasize the fact the legal profession, unfortunately — how do I put this politely — we have our heads maybe buried in our books far too often.”