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It’s time to tear down 24 Sussex By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | January 16, 2019
What should be done, instead, is to build a new residence at 24 Sussex Drive.

We are losing more and more of our rights under feel good laws that do absolutely no good

Innovation in Canada: An Assessment of Recent Experience

The formal certification of a political party so diametrically opposed to democracy and to our way of life, and which could ultimately result in our enslavement, is completely unacceptable

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CARBON TAX FOR EACH FUEL By | January 6, 2019
Trudeau carbon tax is also on natural gas and electricity for your home


CEO to Worker Pay: Global Competition for Top Talent

Canada's Carbon Tax


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CTF Releases New Year’s Tax Changes for 2019 By -- Aaron Wudrick, CTF Federal Director | December 27, 2018
• Increase in Canada Pension Plan tax rate will cost workers an additional $98 per year
• Canada Workers Benefit will help low-income taxpayers
• Bracket creep remains a problem in several provinces

Canadians remain far less generous than Americans

Billboard features photo of pledge Ford signed with the Taxpayers Federation committing to eliminate cap-and-trade and to fight the Trudeau carbon tax

• Withdrawing Bill C-69
• Withdrawing the federal carbon tax
• Reducing business taxes to make Canada more competitive with the United States

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YELLOW VESTS CANADA By | December 15, 2018
Post Millennial: Carbon taxes, reckless spending, and the UN Global Compact on Migration are all upsetting Canadians.

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Ontario comptroller goes down with her failed accounting methods By -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | December 14, 2018
The government, the unions, the auditor general, the financial accountability officer, and, ultimately, the voters, have all made it clear Ontario needs a higher accounting standard.

The Unintended Consequences of National Pharmacare Programs in Australia, New Zealand and the UK

Objective journalism in Canada’s mainstream media is effectively dead

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Auditor General’s Naughty List is Ford’s To-Do List By -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | December 7, 2018
The report can and should be used to inform changes that will bring cost savings for Ontario taxpayers and reduce the province’s massive deficit. Taxpayers couldn’t get a better Christmas present

A new book takes on the shocking conditions in Canada’s 'Third World'

Risk and Reward in Public Sector Pension Plans: a Taxpayer’s Perspective

• On the new council’s first day at work, councillors voted 18-8 to double their office budgets to $482,000
• Council also asked the city manager to report on recommendations for councillor salaries

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Auditor General report is a “to-do” list for Premier Ford By -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | December 5, 2018
• The Auditor General’s 2018 Annual Report conducted 15 value for money audits
• Taxpayers Federation calls on Premier Doug Ford to take action on recommendations of Auditor General and eliminate waste

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2018


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When governments pick favourite companies to get free handouts, they are punishing the rest of us who are paying the bill with ever-increasing taxes and ever-increasing deficits

CTF will seek intervenor status in the newly announced Ontario court action against the federal carbon tax

2018 Global Petroleum Survey

“Canadian and Ontario taxpayers just found out they’re getting the opportunity to make an involuntary donation of $62 million to a profitable, private business."

Evaluating the State of Fresh Water in Canada

What is absolutely clear is that giving multinational corporations taxpayer bailouts is not the solution