Canadian News & Opinion

Canadian upstream oil and gas investment increased only 15% compared to 41% in the U.S. By Fraser Institute | May 7, 2019

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

Ontario high schools can improve student performance regardless of challenges By Fraser Institute | May 5, 2019

Report Card on Ontario’s Secondary Schools 2019

Federal Politics: Liberal support continues to drop as left-of-centre voters search for alternatives By Angus Reid Institute | May 4, 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

Establishing clear consultation guidelines, recognizing Indigenous property rights key to providing By Fraser Institute | May 2, 2019

Assessing the Duty to Consult

Dearth of pipeline capacity cost Canada’s energy sector $20.6 billion in foregone revenues in 2018 By Fraser Institute | April 30, 2019

• The Cost of Pipeline Constraints in Canada, 2019
• 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)

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

Canada’s tax system now much more complicated—actual text of Income Tax Act and regulations increas By Fraser Institute | April 25, 2019

Tax Complexity in 2019: Can It be Tamed?

Prayers for Pro-Life MP Mark Warawa By Guest Column -- Tony Gosgnach | April 23, 2019

Trudeau breaks record for debt growth among prime ministers in Canadian history By Fraser Institute | April 18, 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

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

The Trudeau Liberals: fighting climate change one refrigerator subsidy at a time By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | April 10, 2019

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

Assessing Islamist Radicalization in Canada New MLI Report By Macdonald Laurier Institute | April 10, 2019

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

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