MP Guarnieri initially wanted to limit the salaries of the CEO’s of Charities in Canada. She also felt that charities needed to be transparent just like the great charities in the US.

MP Albina Guarnieri is a committed Member of Parliament who has been working for Mississauga East—Cooksville for at least two decades. She is the sponsor of this private member’s bill.

MP Guarnieri spoke before the 49th meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance re: her Bill C-470. These are her words: Read the rest of this entry

I manage 120 business startup entrepreneurs a year. We provide training in a number of areas over an 8 week period. One of the most important aspects of training is, of course, financial management.

We have used QuickBooks made by Intuit, for the last 5 years as financial training software. It’s been really great. We used it to replace an aging and less popular Simply Accounting; sorry guys but you don’t cut it anymore.

QuickBooks has been gracious for the last 4 years providing me with around 70 disks of the latest QuickBooks Software for use by my student entrepreneurs. They learn the program taught by a CGA, take the time sensitive (1 yr) software home to practice and then actually use it in their new startup businesses.  When the time sensitive program software eventually runs out they must upgrade to the newest QuickBooks that they have come to love and respect. Let’s not forget the other important program QuickTax. They do this instinctively.  We trained them that way. Of course.

Well… Imagine my shock, anger and chagrin when the good folks at QuickBooks told me that my educational status did not qualify anymore Read the rest of this entry

Folks, I’m not an activist but I am blunt. I don’t suffer fools and I refuse to let inequalities get past me. I wrote a blog about the Charities in Canada paying incredibly exorbitant salaries, and luxurious benefits to the CEO’s of the top ten charities. http://garybizzo.com/?p=574

After my blog post, a very committed MP in Ottawa, The Hon. Albina Guarnieri, P.C., M.P.
Mississauga East-Cooksville, Ontario  initiated a Bill C-470 to limit these salaries. She is facing incredible opposition from the charities funny enough and needs your help! I have been asked to appear as a witness at the Standing Committee in the House of Commons to address my concerns as a private citizen to the arrogance of charities which feel they can ask you for your hard earned money to pay themselves incredible salaries.

Come on folks this is not the way to be a model to the poor, the downtrodden and the ill in our great country. These charities are so arrogant they have even started their own website to fight the bill www.notobillc470.com

Stand-up and send a note of your support to Albina Guarnieri NOW! Read the rest of this entry

An immigrant arrives in Canada with hopes of taking up the existing career they had in their home country. The harsh reality hits home when they find that their credentials don’t count for much in their new home, Canada. Now what?

Enter the entrepreneurial spirit, creating a business from past experience or maybe it’s the urge to fulfill a need or even finding a business that fits both need and opportunity is the appropriate thinking process. Read the rest of this entry

This is a Press Release from the Office of:

The Honourable Albina Guarnieri, P.C., M.P.
Mississauga East-Cooksville

For Immediate Release
September 15, 2010

OTTAWA –  It seems that billion dollar tax scams don’t attract criminal charges these days. However, the Minister of National Revenue should at least take action against the charity CEOs who were complicit in one of the biggest taxpayer rip-offs in Canadian history. Read the rest of this entry