Canadian News, Opinion

Alberta appeal on unconstitutional beer taxes to be heard today By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick & Franco Terrazzano | April 9, 2019

• Alberta government is appealing a decision by the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench ordering the government to give back revenues collected under an unconstitutional tax law

Taxpayers Federation invites public to help pick Ontario’s new logo for less than $89,000 By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | April 9, 2019

• The Ontario government is redesigning the Ontario trillium logo for a taxpayer cost of $89,000
• Taxpayers Federation has commissioned logos for less than $10 a piece, and invited the public to vote on them

A 1% annual spending reduction would balance Ontario’s budget in two years By Fraser Institute | April 9, 2019

A Turning Point or More of the Same? Ontario's Fiscal Choices in Budget 2019

The Trudeau government has announced $4.2 billion in spending since SNC-Lavalin scandal broke By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | April 8, 2019

• 267 new spending announcements from the Trudeau government since scandal broke on Feb. 7
• Includes handouts for everything from tourism to airports to boat safety

Pallister right to fight the carbon tax in court By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Todd MacKay – CTF Prairie Director | April 5, 2019

“The provincial opposition to Ottawa’s carbon tax is growing stronger by the day and there are many reasons to fight this tax in court”

Alberta workers paid $27.9 billion more into CPP than Alberta retirees received in payments over pas By Fraser Institute | April 3, 2019

Albertans Make Disproportionate Contributions to National Programs: The Canada Pension Plan as a Case Study

Canadian Economy Still Stuck in The Rut By Macdonald Laurier Institute | April 2, 2019

MLI'S LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATOR

Ford Government hands out $130 million from Jobs and Prosperity Fund, despite pledge to scrap it By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | April 2, 2019

The PC platform refers to the fund as a "corrupt" form of "corporate welfare"

This April Fools’ Day the joke is on taxpayers By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, CTF Federal Director | April 1, 2019

• Federal carbon tax takes effect today in four provinces, adding 4.4 cents per litre of gas
• Escalator tax on alcohol also means higher prices across Canada for beer, wine and spirits

Ontario Fairness Commissioner’s High Flying Lifestyle Unfair to Taxpayers By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | March 30, 2019

• Ontario's Fairness Commissioner has accumulated $92,130 in travel expenses in just 20 months
• Taxpayers Federation calls on province not to renew Commissioner's two year term, which expires in April 2019

Fill up your gas tank: the carbon tax kicks in Monday By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Todd MacKay, CTF Prairie Director | March 29, 2019

Federal Politics: As Liberal support bleeds to other parties, CPC vote stays solid By Angus Reid Institute | March 28, 2019

Trudeau’s favourability among the public continues to sink alongside Liberal fortunes

Fill up your gas tank! The Trudeau carbon tax hits Ontario on Monday By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | March 28, 2019

• The federal government is imposing a carbon tax on Ontario on Apr. 1
• The new carbon tax will add 4.4 cents per litre of gas
• CTF is fighting the federal carbon tax in Ontario courts next month

Medical wait times cost Canadian patients more than $2 billion in lost wages in 2018 By Fraser Institute | March 28, 2019

The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2019

99% of Canadians who graduate high school, get full-time work, and don’t have children until i By Fraser Institute | March 26, 2019

The Causes of Poverty

Ford government’s first budget must demonstrate self control By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | March 25, 2019

As the Ford government constructs its April budget, it needs to slow spending on many fronts and cut spending on others

Alberta Election: UCP holds commanding lead as campaign begins By Angus Reid Institute | March 22, 2019

NDP competitive in Edmonton, but well behind elsewhere in the province

OBITUARY: The Liberal Balanced Budget Promise By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | March 21, 2019

Amount invested abroad by Canadians up more than 73%, while amount invested in Canada by foreigners By Fraser Institute | March 21, 2019

Canadian Foreign Direct Investment: Recent Patterns and Interpretation

Trudeau’s broken balanced budget promise will cost us $100 billion and counting By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | March 20, 2019

Thanks to its fiscal track record, this government has given Canadians a hundred billion reasons to judge it very harshly

Taxpayers Federation: Budget 2019 shows Trudeau’s broken balanced budget promise will cost $10 By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, CTF Federal Director | March 19, 2019

Higher than expected revenues are more than offset by higher spending

The Media’s Reaction to Trudeau & LavScam Was Predictable By Arthur Weinreb | March 15, 2019

Justin Trudeau’s greatest accomplishment in life prior to politics was teaching drama on a part time basis. He has no real skills and is of limited intelligence. Trudeau is a textbook example of an empty suit

Canadian Taxpayers Federation presents 21st annual Teddy Awards for government waste By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | March 13, 2019

• Federal – PM Trudeau’s India trip
• Provincial – B.C. Leg. Clerk Craig James, Sergeant-at-Arms Gary Lenz
• Municipal – Vancouver’s Parks Board email-a-tree project
• Lifetime Achievement Ex-governor general Adrienne Clarkson

Canadians pay higher personal income taxes than Americans at virtually every income level By Fraser Institute | March 12, 2019

Canada’s Rising Personal Tax Rates and Falling Tax Competitiveness

PST cut a huge victory for taxpayers By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Todd MacKay – CTF Prairie Director | March 8, 2019

“The Manitoba government needs to stay disciplined to get the debt going back down.”

Canada’s horrendous justice system needs an outside inquiry to recommend reform By Colin Alexander | March 7, 2019

Canada clearly needs a combined federal and province-backed, comprehensive inquiry to set change in motion

Who is Leonard Tilley? By Gerald Hall | February 28, 2019

Value of religious conscience cannot be overstated

Ontario plummets in annual ranking of mining investment attractiveness By Fraser Institute | February 28, 2019

Four other Canadian jurisdictions among top 10 worldwide

Trudeau government’s handling of SNC-Lavalin affair opens seven-point lead for CPC over Libera By Angus Reid Institute | February 26, 2019

Two-thirds of Canadians say the SNC-Lavalin affair is a sign of ‘deeper scandal’ in the PMO

New book summarizes and contemporizes the ideas of Adam Smith, famed philosopher and economist By Fraser Institute | February 26, 2019