Jean-Serge Brisson was born on June 28,1954 and is a Canadian political activist, tax reform advocate, politician, and author.
12 Facts About Jean-Serge Brisson
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Jean-Serge Brisson is a former leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada and gained national notoriety in the 1990s for his opposition to businesses being forced to collect the provincial sales tax without being remunerated.
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Jean-Serge Brisson describes his early experiences with jobs and bosses to have put him off from ever being able to work for a boss, wanting to instead start his own business and be his own boss.
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Jean-Serge Brisson first apprenticed as a radiator technician and, in 1974, opened his own company in Embrun, Independent Radiator Co.
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Jean-Serge Brisson has been a candidate for the Libertarian Party of Canada and the Libertarian Party of Ontario in Glengarry-Prescott-Russell and Ottawa South.
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In 2004, despite being the leader of the Libertarian Party, Jean-Serge Brisson did not run in the federal election due to his recent election to municipal council in Russell, Ontario.
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Jean-Serge Brisson was elected as the leader of the party in 1999 and served until May 18,2008.
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Jean-Serge Brisson was defeated in his bid for re-election on November 13,2006 in the 2006 municipal election.
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Jean-Serge Brisson argues that customers should be sending in their taxes to the Ontario government themselves, the Ontario government mandated that all businesses charge the sales tax when a customer was purchasing a good or service since 1961, then send that money to the government.
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Jean-Serge Brisson said he never agreed to be hired as a tax collector for the provincial government, but if he was going to be doing their work, he expected to be paid the same as other provincial tax collectors, which at the time Jean-Serge Brisson's shop rate was approximately $30 per hour.
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However, the government would not pay businesses for the added responsibilities to the business, which Jean-Serge Brisson argued was a form of slavery.
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Jean-Serge Brisson documented his experience in his book titled Tea Party of One: All Governments Invited.