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As protests grow from business groups over the government’s proposed tax crackdown on private corporations, the Conservatives are getting ready to launch their own campaign against it.

Lisa Raitt, the Conservative Party’s deputy leader under Andrew Scheer, says she’s been deep in discussions with doctors and small business owners over the government’s tax plan, and is lining up roundtables across the country to help air concerns around it.

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“They dropped the policy paper in mid-July, and only now does it seem to be percolating through,” she said. Raitt’s organizing an event in Moncton, N.B., around it next week, has another set up in her home riding of Milton, Ont., and plans to put together more meetings in the prairie provinces and elsewhere.

“We’re getting a lot of folks who want to come in, some want to understand the changes, some want to help explain the changes from the accounting side,” she said. “We’re going to record all this and pass it on … I’m going to ramp this up. This is a terrible decision made by the Liberals.”