Canadian News & Opinion

One million Canadians waited for medical treatment in 2017, costing $1.9 billion in lost wages By Fraser Institute | May 23, 2018

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

Rate of small business startups in Canada down nearly 50 per cent in 30 years By Fraser Institute | May 17, 2018

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

Lack of pipelines will cost Canada $15.8 billion this year By Fraser Institute | May 8, 2018

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

Canadian Taxpayers Federation joining legal fights to stop the carbon tax and build the pipeline By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | May 7, 2018

In historic legal battles between governments, somebody needs to stand up for taxpayers

Expanded Canada Pension Plan could decrease investment in Canada by up to $114 billion over next dec By Fraser Institute | May 3, 2018

Expansion of the Canada Pension Plan and the Unintended Effect on Domestic Investment

First Nations activist forces Onion Lake Cree Nation to provide financial transparency By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | May 2, 2018

Canada Health Act a barrier to reform and better universal health care By Fraser Institute | May 2, 2018

“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)

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

Reducing Ontario’s personal, corporate income tax rates to 8% would attract investment, top ta By Fraser Institute | April 24, 2018

Time for Tax Reform in Ontario

Pipeline Problems? Try Tanker Troubles: BC Kinder Morgan opponents want spill response assurances By Angus Reid Institute | April 18, 2018

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

Windsor police extend the “dark side” of Habibullah Ahmad’s vicious attack By Lloyd Billingsley | April 15, 2018

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

Poor policies largely to blame for Ontario’s skyrocketing electricity prices By Fraser Institute | April 12, 2018

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

Fifi and Spike sent packing? Canadians weigh in on whether landlords should be able to prohibit pets By Angus Reid Institute | March 29, 2018

Nearly two-thirds say landlords should be able to refuse renters with pets; renters themselves are divided

Landmark Appeal Court victory re-enforces financial transparency for First Nations By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Todd MacKay – CTF Prairie Director | March 29, 2018

MLI Mourns Passing of Renowned Philanthropist Peter Munk By Macdonald Laurier Institute | March 29, 2018

Tax escalator on alcohol begins on April 1, with excise taxes rising 1.5% By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | March 29, 2018

No Escalator Tax campaign

Small Business Reaction to 2018 Ontario Budget By Guest Column -- Canadian Federation of Independent Business | March 28, 2018

Provincial government missed another opportunity to directly offset the rising payroll costs for small business

Ontario 2018 Budget: Bigger deficits, more spending, higher taxes By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | March 28, 2018

• Minister Sousa brags of fiscal prudence while running $6.7 billion deficit
• Government plans on running six years of deficits while simultaneously raising income taxes

Stop letting Wynne call it a ‘modest’ deficit By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | March 27, 2018

Taxpayers need to take a serious look at the budget when it's tabled at Queen's Park on Wednesday, and ask themselves if an additional $5,600 in their household budget is "modest," and who could spend it better: their family, or Premier Wynne?