Canadian News, Opinion

Hard for Government to Claim $800Gs Ad Buy Wasn’t Partisan By Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | November 24, 2016
Government to spend $70 million on a program that never saw the light of day. Continued spending taxpayer money promoting program after they cancelled it by giving contracts to crony friends, removing the auditor general"s power to stop them
Ontario Government Spent $800,000 on New Advertising for ORPP After Program was Cancelled By Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | November 23, 2016
• Government ordered new advertising even after they had cancelled the program
• Ads were produced by the same ad firm that the Ontario Liberal Party hired for their election advertising
What’s wrong with a team named the ‘Mississauga Chiefs?’ By | November 22, 2016
And millions of people cannot understand why Donald Trump was elected president of the United States
Trumpatized By -- Elizabeth Marshall | November 21, 2016
The world is waiting and it needs an America that it can count on – not some snivelling bunch of school children pouting because they didn't get their own way
Trumpism is alive in Canada By | November 16, 2016
Kellie Leitch's Canadian values are being portrayed as; racist, homophobe, misogynist, Islamophobic
With Ontario’s Expenses Rising Faster than Expected, Government Raises Land Transfer Taxes By -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | November 14, 2016
• Questioning government’s ability to balance budget
• Modest tax break for first time home buyers financed by tax increases for commercial, other property, outweighed by other policies that make staying in home unaffordable
The Real Threat to Ontario’s Economy Isn’t a President Trump By -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | November 13, 2016
The reality is that Ontario's economy is not threatened by Donald Trump--it's under full fledged attack by its own government
Canada Immigration’s website crashed when it became obvious Trump would win By | November 9, 2016
Canadian government, not to mention immigration lawyers, will step up their efforts to entice and help Americans to move north of the border
The Trudeau Government One Year In: Not So Sunny Ways By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | November 6, 2016
With three years left in their mandate, there’s still time for the Trudeau government to right the fiscal ship, clamp down on waste, and get serious about transparency laws
CTF Calls For Posting Scanned Expense Receipts and Tightened Relocation Reimbursement Guidelines By Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | October 27, 2016

• Scanned expense receipts for ministers, MPs, senators and political staff should be posted proactively online
  • Tighter guidelines should be implemented for staff relocation expenses

Taxpayers Federation calls for stable taxes, controlled spending and MLA pension reform By Todd MacKay, Prairie Director - Canadian Taxpayers Federation | October 27, 2016
Multi-billion-dollar pension liabilities need to be addressed and the first step is for MLAs to lead by example and reform their own pension fund
CBC Canadian Media Fails to Know ABC Bias By --Edited by Bart Charles Begley | October 25, 2016
Even Oprah didn’t endorse Clinton this week in a very obvious way, by saying there was only one clear choice
A Carbon Tax Will Cost Canadians Billions. What Will We Get For It? By --Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | October 24, 2016
Trudeau's decision to tax Canadians into submission is likely to achieve many things: it will strain the budgets of millions of Canadian households; Devastate Canadian businesses; Fill government coffers with billions of dollars s
Why the Trudeau government ignored 2nd anniversary of soldiers killed in terrorist attacks By | October 23, 2016
There was no ceremony to honour Vincent and Cirillo because Trudeau, like Papa Pierre before him, hates the military
Ranked ballots would weaken the competitiveness of Canadian elections By | October 20, 2016
Counting Votes: Essays on Electoral Reform
Taxpayers Federation Calls for Full Accounting of $11.7 Million Spent on Advertising and Consultants By Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | October 19, 2016
Ontario Public Accounts reveal $11.7 million of the program's $11.9 million budget was spent on consultants, publications, media and advertising
Ontario does not deserve a major league baseball franchise By | October 18, 2016
What a Mickey Mouse province Ontario actually is
Taxpayers Federation Launches Campaign to “Stop High Energy Bills” By Christine Van Geyn, Ontario Director | October 17, 2016

StopHighEnergyBills.caEncourages public to take action on government’s interference in electricity sector and cost of planned new tax on home heating and gasoline

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as accessory to Aboriginal suicides By | October 16, 2016
Maybe we should bestow on Trudeau the sobriquet Mr. Fork-Tongue. And on Dr. Carolyn Bennett, Doctor Do-Little!
Kathleen Wynne Blames Your Family For Costly New Tax By Christine Van Geyn, Ontario Director | October 13, 2016
Kathleen Wynne has mismanaged the economy, the electricity system, the provincial budget and can't afford to keep the government running
Don’t impose a carbon tax in vain By Todd MacKay, Prairie Director | October 13, 2016
More than 45,000 Canadians estimated to have left the country for medical care in 2015 By | October 12, 2016
Leaving Canada for Medical Care, 2016
Salaries, pensions and benefits consumed majority of increased spending on public schools in Canada By | October 6, 2016
Understanding the Increases in Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada, 2016 Edition
Red tape costs homebuilders twice as much in Toronto than Hamilton By | October 4, 2016
New Homes and Red Tape in Ontario: Residential Land-Use Regulation in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
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CTF Slams Trudeau’s Carbon Tax By Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | October 3, 2016

• Federal government plans to impose carbon taxes on unwilling provinces
• By 2022, average family could be paying $2,593 in new taxes each year

Canadian ‘conservative’ senator wants to ban marketing to children By | October 2, 2016
Liberals, Tories, same old story. That expression has never been more meaningful than it is today
Keep Net Zero Bargaining By Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | October 1, 2016
While "net zero" may have been a thin and porous dam blocking that government employee wage firehose, it was the only thing we had
Unifor Gets It On Pensions, Why Don’t Our Public Sector Unions? By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | September 28, 2016
So why does Unifor get it on pensions, while CUPW doesn’t?
Time to judge new government by its actions By Todd MacKay, Prairie Director | September 27, 2016
A lot of action coming from the Manitoba government lately
Electricity increasing for rural population By | September 26, 2016
Maybe it's time the rural population looked somewhere else to place the "X" on their ballot come 2018 because the "big 3" will only continue to gouge the rural people