Canadian News, Opinion
How Albertans Continue to keep Federal Finances Afloat
Doug Ford’s decision to fight the carbon tax is wise. Using taxpayer money for advertising is not
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn and Jasmine Pickel, CTF Ontario Directors | May 15, 2019
Ontario is right to pursue this fight--just as Saskatchewan, Alberta, New Brunswick and Manitoba are right. But for how the government is spending taxpayer money on it, keep the wheat and cut the chaff.
After Norman, we need to ask what’s happening to our country
By Jocelyn Bamford | May 13, 2019
Increasingly, the next election looks to be an election about the fundamentals: of the role of government, of democracy, of freedom, of the rule of law
VIDEO: Clement Warns Trudeau Has Secret Plan To Ban Legal Firearms, Liberals Don’t Deny It
By News on the Net -- Spencer Fernando | May 10, 2019
Toronto city councillors need to stop hyperventilating
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | May 7, 2019
There's a reason council opts for panic over calm budget reprioritization
Ontario Premier Needs to Have His Head Chopped Off!
By Arthur Weinreb | May 7, 2019
These leftist idiots would really like to see him die
Investment in the Canadian and U.S. Oil and Gas Sectors: A Tale of Diverging Fortunes
Next up for the Trudeau Liberals: a plastic tax?
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | May 6, 2019
Whether it's carbon taxes, hiking Canada Pension Plan premiums, bungled small business tax proposals or escalator taxes on alcohol, it often feels like this is a government just itching to leave your wallet a bit lighter tomorrow than it is today
Report Card on Ontario’s Secondary Schools 2019
Scheer top choice for best PM but May holds highest approval rating of any federal leader
Carbon Taxes arrive….and Shell Helps!!
By Jocelyn Bamford | May 3, 2019
Shell made it clear it supports carbon taxes
Ontario’s battle over beer
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director & Grant Dingwall | May 3, 2019
The Beer Store has no support among Ontarians who just want to buy beer without government-enforced, prohibition-era nonsense
Green Deja Vu, Repeating Ontario’s Green Folly
By Chris Kemble & Victor Selby | May 2, 2019
Cost of the folly is crushing debt for decades in Ontario. Price increases are baked in for years to come
Debt threatens to submerge Newfoundlanders and Labradorians
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Paige MacPherson, CTF Atlantic Director | May 2, 2019
Higher interest rates would have serious consequences. It's necessary that the government taps the breaks before it takes taxpayers over a fiscal cliff and put all Canadians on the hook for a bailout that will cost them dearly
Assessing the Duty to Consult
• The Cost of Pipeline Constraints in Canada, 2019
• Nearly eclipsing loss of previous five years combined:
• Nearly eclipsing loss of previous five years combined:
Volunteer berates Trudeau, accusing him of ‘delaying’ sandbag work
By News on the Net | April 29, 2019
You’re already out of time to read the Income Tax Act before tax filing deadline: CTF
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, CTF Federal Director | April 29, 2019
•2019 version of the Income Tax Act is 1,113,618 words long, an increase of 12,177 words from last year
• It would take the average reader almost 62 hours to read it (41 minutes more than last year)
• It would take the average reader almost 62 hours to read it (41 minutes more than last year)
As Vancouver drivers suffer gas-price pain, carbon tax backers go suspiciously quiet
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director and Kris Sims, B.C. Director | April 26, 2019
High gas prices in B.C. are an expensive sneak preview of just the kind of future that the Trudeau government, with its rising carbon tax, wants for all Canadians
Tax Complexity in 2019: Can It be Tamed?
Prayers for Pro-Life MP Mark Warawa
By Guest Column -- Tony Gosgnach | April 23, 2019
Examining Federal Debt in Canada by Prime Minister Since Confederation
If Toronto wants cheaper homes, get council out of the way
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | April 17, 2019
Toronto should be encouraging more and better housing in the city and reducing land transfer taxes
Ontario carbon tax court battle begins today
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | April 15, 2019
CTF will make arguments against the Trudeau carbon tax in the Ontario court battle
Taxpayers Federation cautiously optimistic about Ontario budget
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | April 12, 2019
ª The Ontario budget outlines a plan to balance the budget by 2023, a year after the next election
ª Province also announces new financial accountability legislation, initiatives to limit bureaucratic bloat, and tax changes for families
ª Province also announces new financial accountability legislation, initiatives to limit bureaucratic bloat, and tax changes for families
Ford government right to tackle bureaucratic bloat
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | April 10, 2019
Regular Ontario workers are already paying the salaries of bureaucrats who, on average, earn more than they do
Ottawa is using the carbon tax to pressure middle-class families into buying new fridges, but, if it's one of Canada's wealthiest families flanked by a flock of lobbyists, Ottawa is all to happy chip in millions from taxpayers for new coolers
Federal carbon tax vulnerable to legal challenge
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | April 10, 2019
Pallister is right to represent the will of Manitobans by challenging the federal carbon tax. It's unfair for Ottawa to force Manitobans to pay a carbon tax that won't work
Canadian Terrorists by the Numbers: An Assessment of Canadians Joining and Supporting Terrorist Groups
Should Ontario Place be sold? Yes
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | April 9, 2019
The government has done a poor job in managing it and taxpayers cannot afford for the site to remain neglected or to fall further into disrepair