A big green bus emblazoned with the words "Only Fair is Fair - Income Equality Isn't" stopped in downtown North Battleford Thursday to spread a message of tax fairness.
The Fairness Express parked on 12th Avenue, next to the farmers' market, as part of its Road to Fairness tour across Canada.
Not far away, a booth was set up that handed out buttons and T-shirts that promoted their message of "tax fairness, public services, good jobs and labour rights."
Saskatchewan is the last stop for the tour in 2014. The bus was in Lloydminster Wednesday and was due to head up to Meadow Lake Friday before heading south.
The Saskatchewan tour lasts Sept. 14 to Oct.10, but it has been coast to coast across Canada.
The tour is organized as a collaboration between a number of national labour unions, including the Saskatchewan Government Employees Union.
According to Mary Ann Harrison, vice-president for SGEU, the tour is talking about "tax fairness and income inequality, and how important it is for them to go back home and have their conversations at the kitchen table, at the coffee shops, about corporations needing to pay better wages, needing to pay more taxes, so that we can get some income equality."
They say they hope a discussion starts about income inequality and hope it could lead to governments "starting to look at the tax system and make it more fair so the corporations are paying the taxes they need to, so it becomes less of a burden for the average working person."
Those seeking more information can go to http://alltogethernow.nupge.ca/fairness-express, or also www.fairnessexpress.ca.
