Canadian News & Opinion
Canada Immigration’s website crashed when it became obvious Trump would win
By Arthur Weinreb | 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 Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- 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 Canadian Taxpayers Federation 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 Canadian Taxpayers Federation 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 Mark Smyth --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 Canadian Taxpayers Federation --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
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 Fraser Institute | 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 Canadian Taxpayers Federation 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 Arthur Weinreb | October 18, 2016
What a Mickey Mouse province Ontario actually is
Taxpayers Federation Launches Campaign to “Stop High Energy Bills”
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation 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 Colin Alexander | 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 Canadian Taxpayers Federation 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 Canadian Taxpayers Federation Todd MacKay, Prairie Director | October 13, 2016
Leaving Canada for Medical Care, 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 Fraser Institute | October 4, 2016
New Homes and Red Tape in Ontario: Residential Land-Use Regulation in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
CTF Slams Trudeau’s Carbon Tax
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation 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 Arthur Weinreb | October 2, 2016
Liberals, Tories, same old story. That expression has never been more meaningful than it is today
Keep Net Zero Bargaining
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation 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 Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- 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 Canadian Taxpayers Federation Todd MacKay, Prairie Director | September 27, 2016
A lot of action coming from the Manitoba government lately
Electricity increasing for rural population
By Elizabeth Marshall | 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
Justin—don’t mistake anger for fear and anxiety
By Arthur Weinreb | September 23, 2016
Ordinary Canadians are mad Trudeau wants Canada to become a post-national state and detests whatever true Canadian culture we have left
Tax-free Cigarettes Adding to Ontario’s Contraband Problem
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | September 22, 2016
One of the simplest steps to fight contraband would be to reduce the number of tax-free government allocated cigarettes given to aboriginal reserves
Ontario Government Allocates Millions More Cigarettes to Reserves than can be Legally Smoked, Losing
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | September 21, 2016
Data reveals that the government has foregone $9.2 billion over eight years in tobacco taxes Calculations reveal that government is allocating 313 million cigarettes more to aboriginal reserves than can be legally sold or consumed
Wynne Launches Petition Against… Herself?
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation --Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | September 16, 2016
So if Wynne is aware of the message being given to her by thousands of Ontarians, and she is even asking herself to take action, why isn't she actually doing anything?
Justin Trudeau should make Parliament more diverse
By Arthur Weinreb | September 15, 2016
Segregation forever! It’s a matter of diversity
Time to End Political Patronage Appointments
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | September 15, 2016
The appointment system isn’t working. The government treats ABC appointments as a parting gift to retiring party favourites and failed candidates
Canada ranks among top five jurisdictions worldwide for economic freedom, but…
By Fraser Institute | September 15, 2016
Recent policy changes threaten Canada’s ranking in the coming years

