Jon Shell

Politics, entrepreneurship, economic justice and the Toronto Blue Jays

[Jon Shell @jonrshell]

BREAKING: Employee Ownership Trusts are coming to Canada. It's happening. #Budget2022 has committed to a new trust in the Income Tax Act. With the right structure and the right incentives, this is a HUGE win for Canadian workers, business owners and economic resilience. Let's go!

[Jon Shell @jonrshell]

Canada has strengthened an important new succession option for business owners that keeps companies Canadian-owned, protects local jobs, delivers wealth for workers, and is proven to boost growth and productivity. A huge win for the Canadian economy - well done @FP_Champagne.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Tax break to help business owners sell to employees to be made permanent https://t.co/LQSSrljGGm

[Dan Kelly @CFIB]

Tax break to help business owners sell to employees to be made permanent https://t.co/jBgWw6ZYcD

[Jon Shell @jonrshell]

Yesterday was a big day for employee ownership in Canada, and @CFIB has been a huge supporter of this effort for years. Thanks to you Dan and your team.

[Dan Kelly @CFIB]

CFIB thanks Finance Minister @FP_Champagne for listening to small firms and making Employee Ownership Trusts a permanent feature to encourage successful successions. This is an important long term move.

[Dan Kelly @CFIB]

CFIB thanks Finance Minister @FP_Champagne for listening to small firms and making Employee Ownership Trusts a permanent feature to encourage successful successions. This is an important long term move.

[Sean Mullin @MullinSean]

Nice to see the Employee Ownership Trust tax exemption be made permanent in today's Spring Update .

[Brendan Samek @brendan_samek]

I'm excited that the Employee Ownership Trust tax exemption is being made permanent.

We should make it easy for companies to transfer to an employee ownership as a way to help their founders retire.

[Jon Shell @jonrshell]

@jaysonst @jaysonst separate topic: the first five innings of the Jays game 2 against the Yankees were the best five inning stretch for any team, ever. True? No hitter, scoring 12 runs, not to mention the context.

[Jon Shell @jonrshell]

Build, baby. build? or Sell, baby, sell?

Sunoco's acquisition of Parkland is a bad deal for Canada and should be rejected.

https://t.co/acrKOOqKUi

[Jon Shell @jonrshell]

Yesterday, America had their “Liberation Day.” Now it’s time for the rest of us to plan our own. The world needs a new Alliance, independent of the US or China. Here's one way to do it. It's wrong and incomplete. But maybe it gets the ball rolling.
https://t.co/33YzfHQyz8

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

"'We’ll help make you owners' is a hell of a rallying cry.
With Canada’s sovereignty at stake, we must invest in every approach to keeping Canadian businesses in Canadian hands...Employee ownership was a great idea in 2024. It has become an essential idea for Canada in 2025."
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[Jon Shell @jonrshell]

I almost never ask for a share, but if you're an employee ownership supporter please share the linked article and let's try and pressure our politicians to act quickly to mobilize these trusts in the fight to protect our sovereignty. #employeeownership

[Jon Shell @jonrshell]

Employee Ownership can be an important tool in the fight for Canadian sovereignty. Current policy isn't up to the task. @mike_ras and my view in today's @calgaryherald. It's time to move this issue into the front and centre of the Canadian economic agenda.
https://t.co/eMYKzDykbY

[Jon Shell @jonrshell]

With an election upcoming, and with both the Conservatives and Liberals laser-focused on Canadian workers, employee ownership should be front and centre.
@PierrePoilievre
@MarkJCarney

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

"A few hundred workers at a company in Vermont are about to share in about $1B...They didn't win some big State lottery with a shared lucky ticket. This is the magic of employee ownership at work. Here's their story."
@jonrshell @SocialCP
https://t.co/DrUpZ5YZ9P

[Jon Shell @jonrshell]

The perfectly ironic Canadian move would be to hire someone from McKinsey to be the fentanyl czar.

[Brandon McCarthy @BMcCarthy32]

no matter what we're going to have a DEI super-bowl winning quarterback (or do we only talk this way now about other professions?)