Canadian News & Opinion
Money Following Patients: A Better Way to Pay for Universally Accessible Hospital Care
The governments’ own data and statistics make it clear that Covid does not justify the ongoing and continuing violation of Charter rights and freedoms by our federal and provincial government
WATCH: Trudeau’s Back To Buying Votes—With Your Money
By News on the Net -- NCC | April 28, 2021
More red ink from Ottawa won’t solve our economic woes
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director, CTF and Jay Goldberg | April 26, 2021
The federal government has decided to borrow tens of billions of dollars to finance a stimulus package we don’t need and new programs that taxpayers can’t afford
The forced isolation of returning Canadian air travellers is arbitrary, unnecessary, and totalitarian
Grace Life Church Must Be Crushed By Covidstan, Before It Inspires Others
By Guest Column -- Steve Deace and Todd Erzen | April 24, 2021
Covidstan will demand you choose this day whom you will serve – freedom and your Creator, or the state. And there will be no in-between.
The Implications of Slowing Growth in Canada’s Labour Force
“We created the ‘Know Your Rights’ guide as a source of legal information for a public that has been provided with conflicting and unclear direction from the government.”
Federal budget spends more on everything with no plan to pay for it
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director, CTF | April 21, 2021
Budget that sets Canada on a path to fiscal danger, with its plunge into permanent, unfunded spending increases and structural deficits. Future generations will pay a heavy price
Taxpayers Federation slams Freeland’s fiscal inferno
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director | April 19, 2021
• Liberals plan permanent, debt-fuelled spending increase of more than $100 billion annually by 2026 with no plan to balance budget
• Federal debt to balloon to $1.4 trillion and debt interest payments to rise to $39 billion annually by 2026
• Federal debt to balloon to $1.4 trillion and debt interest payments to rise to $39 billion annually by 2026
The new enforcement powers include giving the police the power to stop individuals and vehicles to ask for their name, address, and their purpose for being away from their residence
Taxpayers Federation slams CPC Leader Erin O’Toole for announcing his own carbon tax
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Franco Terrazzano, CTF Alberta Director | April 15, 2021
“It’s outrageous that O’Toole is now planning to hammer Canadians with higher fuel bills through his very own carbon tax,”
In Budget 2021, Freeland needs to get runaway spending under control
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director & Franco Terrazzano, Alberta Director | April 15, 2021
Allowing government employees to dictate who can and cannot participate in a government program, based on the beliefs or bias of those government employees, is absolutely unacceptable in a free and democratic society
"Quarantine, particularly of healthy or asymptomatic individuals, is the functional equivalent of house arrest and the Justice Centre will not allow it to continue unchallenged"
The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2021
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms represents Pastor James Coates and Grace Life Church, of Stony Plain, Alberta.
This unconstitutional limitation is further being enforced in a discriminatory and arbitrary manner targeting those expressing their opposition to the government’s lockdown measures"
Pastor James Coates and Grace Life Church are charged with violating the Public Health Act for holding Church as normal after more than a year of government restrictions
Ford flips on political subsidies
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | April 2, 2021
Could you help us push Ford to repeal political welfare?
The joke is on taxpayers this April Fools’ Day
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Franco Terrazzano, CTF Alberta Director | April 1, 2021
• Carbon tax increases • Booze taxes increase • MP pay increases
Prime Ministers and Government Spending, 2021 Edition
Taxpayers Federation slams April 1 MP pay hike
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Franco Terrazzano, CTF Alberta Director | March 30, 2021
This shouldn’t be rocket science: our MPs should be able to figure out a way to stop the automatic pay hikes during a severe economic downturn
Better stock up: your beer, wine and spirits are about to get more expensive
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | March 26, 2021
• Tax escalator will see excise tax hikes on alcohol hit April 1
• Automatic increases reduce government accountability for tax hikes and set a bad precedent
• Automatic increases reduce government accountability for tax hikes and set a bad precedent
Canadian seniors will consume 71.4 per cent of total health care expenditures in 2040
By Fraser Institute -- Steve Globerman, Senior Fellow Fraser Institute | March 25, 2021
Aging and Expenditures on Health Care
Lessons for the Ford Government from the 1995 Federal Budget
Canada’s Toxic Ban on Plastics
By News on the Net | March 19, 2021
Trudeau government proposal which will have adverse impact on the economy, our trade relationships and do little for the environment
Estimated Impacts of a $170 Carbon Tax in Canada