This column was published in in the Toronto Sun.
The Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) is dead, but Ontario taxpayers are still in the dark about what the cancelled plan cost them.
The job-killing and redundant payroll tax was going to cost Ontario employees and employers a combined 3.8 per cent off each employee's pay cheque, cost an arm and a leg to administer, would have done nothing to help low income retirees, and the government's own research found it would cost the province jobs.
