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Taxpayers Federation Calls on Wynne to Comply with Independent Financial Accountability Officer̵ By --Christine Van Geyn | May 31, 2016
FAO says his office is being blocked from access to documents necessary to confirm projections regarding provincial revenue
Health care spending could consume almost 50 per cent of provincial budgets by 2030 By | May 31, 2016
The Sustainability of Health Care Spending in Canada
When It Comes To Fiscal Policy, Japan Is No Role Model By Aaron Wudrick | May 27, 2016
CTF Honours Leroux With TaxFighter Award By -- Jordan Bateman | May 27, 2016
Prince George resident fought CRA for decades, winning ‘duty of care’ ruling
Legal duty to consult Aboriginal peoples triggered over 100,000 times a year in Canada By | May 26, 2016
The Duty to Consult with Aboriginal Peoples: Clearer, consistent policies needed across the country
Premier Wynne Making Life Harder For Ontario Taxpayers By Christine Van Geyn | May 25, 2016
It was a wild week for Kathleen Wynne and she certainly needed the long weekend break to recover from her flurry of punches to taxpayers in just five short days
New study spotlighting federal and provincial policies on the legal duty to consult Aboriginal peopl By | May 25, 2016
Parliament’s Real Chance to Speak for Life in Euthanasia Quagmire By | May 24, 2016
Parliament is under no obligation whatsoever to allow assisted suicide in Canada because of the 2015 Supreme Court decision
Taxpayers Federations Calls on Toronto Executive Committee to Reject Calls for Bid on Expo 2025 By Christine Van Geyn | May 24, 2016
City Manager Report finds that Toronto's spending is rising faster than revenue, yet Executive Committee is considering spending hundreds of millions on Expo 2025
Normal? Not at All: Liberals Must Repay Money Funneled to Unions By --Christine Van Geyn | May 20, 2016
Wynne and her party need to repay the millions of dollars it secretly funnelled to their political allies at these unions. It’s our money, after all.
Axe the Gasoline Tax-on-Tax By --Aaron Wudrick | May 19, 2016
Charging sales tax on top of excise taxes needs to stop; axe the tax-on-tax
On Gas Tax Honesty Day, Taxpayers Federation Calls on Wynne to Reverse the New Carbon Tax By | May 19, 2016
Carbon tax will increase cost of gasoline by 4.3 cents per litre,
Taxpayers Fed. Calls on Liberal Party to Repay Union Bargaining Costs in Wake of Auditor General Rep By | May 18, 2016
AG Report finds that the government gave teachers unions $80.5 million in taxpayer money to teachers organizations, including $22 million with “no strings attached”
Political finance reforms an insult to Ontario voters By | May 18, 2016
Federal deficits could total almost $200 billion over next five years By | May 17, 2016
Moving Targets: Re-estimating Federal Deficits and Debt-to-GDP
Governments are often fearful of freedom of information laws, but they shouldn’t be By Todd MacKay, Prairie Director, Canadian Taxpayers FederatioN | May 16, 2016
It’s vital to both governments and those who hold them accountable to protect and strengthen these laws
Taxpayers Federation Slams Wynne’s $7 Billion Carbon Scheme By Christine Van Geyn | May 16, 2016
Leaked documents reveal Wynne plans to spend over $7 billion over four years
Heather Mallick: Anyone who criticizes PM’s wife is a bully By | May 15, 2016
Mallick, as a true progressive lives in her own insular world. Genuine criticism of a progressive woman is bullying but conservatives like Palin are fair game
Terminating An Identity: Liberalism and The Anglo-Canadian Community By | May 12, 2016
Under the Trudeau government, Canada is no longer a nation with a common past or cohesive identity
Federal deficits could total almost $200 billion over next five years By | May 12, 2016
Federal government intends to increase program spending (spending minus interest payments) by nearly $34 billion or 12.4 per cent
Ontario premier reaches new heights in hypocrisy By | May 6, 2016
Lesbian Wynne who, like the true leftie she is loves to call anyone who opposes her crooked government “homophobes,” doesn’t really care about sexual harassment if it involves one someone in her caucus.
Canadians born after 1971 will receive meager 2.1 per cent rate of return from Canada Pension Plan By | May 5, 2016
“It’s easy to see how average Canadians could confuse the rates of return earned by the CPP fund with what they actually receive via their CPP retirement benefits
Corporate Welfare Is Bad For National Unity By Aaron Wudrick | May 5, 2016
Corporate welfare teaches companies, and regions, that what’s important is about getting your “fair cut” of “free” money
Governments in Canada spent more than $25 billion on childcare in 2015 By | May 3, 2016
Child Care in Canada: Examining the Status Quo in 2015
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As tax filing deadline looms, Canadian families challenged by increasingly complex tax system By | April 28, 2016
Measuring Personal Income Tax Complexity in Canada
You’re Almost Out of Time to Read the Income Tax Act Before Filing Deadline: CTF By | April 28, 2016
2016 version of the Income Tax Act is 1,065,588 words long, an increase of 18,473 words this year
CTF Congratulates Bombardier, Looks Forward to Bailout Request Withdrawal By Aaron Wudrick | April 28, 2016
“If it was ‘very clearly not required’ before this Delta deal, surely it is even more very clearly not required today,”
Saskatchewan wait times dramatically reduced due to practical changes like pooling referrals and use By Janice MacKinnon | April 26, 2016
Learning from the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative to Improve Wait Times in Canada
Ontario Should Stop Subsidizing Luxury Vehicles for Millionaires By Christine Van Geyn | April 26, 2016
Ontario has spent over $39 million in taxpayer money on subsidies for electric vehicles
How Smart Is Justin Trudeau? By | April 25, 2016
Trudeau’s public performances in the physical and intellectual domains, as well as his documented appeal to female effusiveness, is a vivid expression of his followers’ utter lack of political sobriety, intellectual acumen and emotional maturity