Canadian News, Opinion
Doug Ford’s 1st Move Must Be To Kill Wynne’s Carbon Tax
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | June 14, 2018
Premier-elect Ford pledged early and eagerly to end the carbon tax, and give taxpayers money back in their pockets. Killing the carbon tax is the most important first move he can take in showing the people who elected him that he is serious.
Tax Freedom Day helps put the total tax burden into perspective
Will Canada Go Up in Smoke?
By News on the Net | June 6, 2018
Marijuana Legalization Imminent
How Kathleen Wynne and Andrea Horwath completely undermine their claims about carbon taxes
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation Christine Van Geyn, Todd Myers, Washington Policy Center | June 1, 2018
The next government will have a choice between carbon taxes that punish families but don't empower them, and technologies that empower families to find ways to cut costs and carbon
The Role of the Police in Andrea Horwath’s Sanctuary Province
By Arthur Weinreb | May 25, 2018
People who always vote Liberal but are now switching to the NDP this year should really think long and hard about their decision
The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2018
Record high gas prices show need for gas tax reform
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | May 18, 2018
• Ontario’s hidden carbon tax, excise tax, and tax-on-tax, drive gas prices even higher during peak periods
• CTF celebrates 20th annual Gas Tax Honesty Day
• CTF celebrates 20th annual Gas Tax Honesty Day
Demographics and Entrepreneurship: Mitigating the Effects of an Aging Population
Corporate welfare and the gullible governments who pay it
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | May 14, 2018
Subsidy-dependent industries will die off. But the trade-off will be a welcoming business culture that attracts competitive, sustainable businesses that are interested in making money the old-fashioned way: by actually earning it
More pipeline capacity would not only benefit the energy sector and our economy, it would also benefit the environment because pipelines are safer than rail
In historic legal battles between governments, somebody needs to stand up for taxpayers
Expansion of the Canada Pension Plan and the Unintended Effect on Domestic Investment
“What might work in Ontario to shorten wait times and improve health services might not work in Alberta or New Brunswick—freeing the provinces to experiment with successful health policies would ultimately produce a better universal healthcare
You’re almost out of time to read the Income Tax Act before filing deadline: CTF
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | April 26, 2018
• 2018 version of the Income Tax Act is 1,101,499 words long, an increase of 45,547 words from last year
• It would take the average reader 61 hours to read it (three hours and 27 minutes more than last year)
• It would take the average reader 61 hours to read it (three hours and 27 minutes more than last year)
Carbon Taxes: The Washington state experience
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | April 24, 2018
Todd Myers from the Washington Policy Center coming to Canada to share Washington state's experience with carbon taxes
Time for Tax Reform in Ontario
Slim majority of Canadians, British Columbians now support pipeline project; opposition remains strong
Nationalizing the Trans Mountain pipeline is a terrible idea
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | April 17, 2018
The Trans Mountain debacle is not a market failure. It is a political failure—and now our politicians are trying to buy their way out of the very mess they created in the first place
More important, does Canada have one system of justice for people like Habibullah Ahmad, and another for people like Anne Widholm? With politicians looking the other way and police keeping people in the dark, it sure seems that way.
Tim’s Fix
By Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser | April 13, 2018
In the meantime, do you feel an urgent need for another caffeine and cruller fix? I certainly could do with one!
The Humboldt bus crash, white privilege and the media
By Arthur Weinreb | April 13, 2018
Ordinary Canadians should not be upset at Loreto’s tweet. She really wasn’t talking about you, she was talking about herself and the progressive world she inhabits
Ontario’s Green Energy Act: Extreme government interference in the electricity market has made life more unaffordable for Ontarians and damaged the province’s economy
Canadians might be okay with carbon taxes - until they see the price
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, CTF Federal Director | April 11, 2018
Admit to Canadians that slashing carbon emissions will be expensive, difficult and painful, and all the sacrifice could well be for nothing if other countries aren’t doing the same
Ontario’s Debt Down The Rabbit Hole
By Ian Nunn | April 10, 2018
What, Me Worry?
Taxpayers applaud Kinew’s carbon tax delay to save Manitobans money
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Todd MacKay – CTF Prairie Director | April 7, 2018
"Wab is right: Pallister's carbon tax will cost people a lot of money, but it won't help the environment."
Five cuts Ontaio’s next Premier can make to save taxpayers money right away
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | April 7, 2018
This year, the Ontario government ran a $6.7 billion deficit
Canadian Taxpayers Federation reacts to Ecofiscal Commission report on carbon taxes
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | April 4, 2018
More Canadians still rank a strong economy and cost of living as higher priorities
Nearly two-thirds say landlords should be able to refuse renters with pets; renters themselves are divided