Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Ontario Election Results are in: Debt by a Landslide

Ontario voters face a perplexing set of choices on Election Day, between a premier who promised never to raise taxes or run a deficit and two challengers who promise new spending when the province is running its worst deficits in history.

Property Taxpayers Need Protection only a Bylaw can Provide

It could be British Columbia’s biggest employment bonanza this year. City halls will soon be overrun by wannabe mayors, councillors and school trustees as nominations open for municipal elections. More than 1,000 jobs will be up for grabs on November 19th.

Calgary business leaders should forget the GST and think GO

EDITORS NOTE: This op-ed appears in today's edition of the Edmonton Journal. This week a group of prominent Calgary business leaders gathered at the Chamber of Commerce to pitch their idea on holding a plebiscite to hike Calgary’s GST by one-point to 6 per cent. The additional tax, which would generate approximately $300 million per year, would be used to build new recreation and cultural facilities. However, as some people are proving, higher taxes and government control is not the only option.

Grit Your Teeth and Vote

Despite the fact Manitoba's net debt is currently increasing by $4.3 million per day, all three major political parties want more spending.

Canadian Taxpayers Federation Challenges Municipal Candidates to Sign Contract with Taxpayers

VANCOUVER: As hundreds of municipal politicians gather in Vancouver today for the start of the Union of BC Municipalities conference, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released the Contract with Taxpayers they will be challenging B.C. candidates to sign ahead of the November 19th municipal elections.

Time to End Manitoba’s Secret Tax Hikes

It’s time to end secret income tax hikes in Manitoba – yes, the ones you probably don’t even know you’re paying. Secret tax hikes you ask? Here’s a quick briefing on the issue.

Cutting Canada’s bloated defence HQ will be a battle royal

As Parliament returned for the fall session, all eyes were on Canada’s military spending. First, there were revelations that General Walter Natynczyk, chief of defence staff, used the Royal Canadian Air Force fleet of VIP executive jets to attend sporting events and even to catch up to his family on a delayed Caribbean vacation.

Canada’s Top Labour Issue

Back in the early 1900s, top labour issues in Canada included things like; safe workplaces, a five-day work week and decent wages.

CTF calls on Harper government to uphold firing of porn-surfing bored bureaucrat

OTTAWA, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling on the Harper government to keep bored porn-surfing bureaucrat Franklin Andrews from returning to his job as a Canadian foreign service officer.

A Fiscally Conservative Premier?

EDMONTON, AB: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) today released responses from all six PC Party leadership candidates to ten key questions posed by the CTF.

Corporate Welfare + Greenwashing = Unhappy Taxpayers

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it: that’s what our parents taught us. But what if something is so broken, it can’t be fixed at all? The Pacific Carbon Trust (PCT) is broken beyond repair. It sucks millions of dollars out of taxpayers’ pockets every year and deposits them in the wallets of big business, all in the name of carbon neutrality.

“No Money for New Spending” Tour Launched

WINNIPEG, MB: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) launched its “No Money for New Spending” Debt Clock tour today at the provincial legislature. The CTF will be touring the giant Debt Clock around Manitoba; educating taxpayers about our province’s growing debt and encouraging politicians to balance the budget a year ahead of schedule; by 2013-14.

Unfair Labour Day

OTTAWA, ON: Just in time for Labour Day, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is highlighting the latestStatistics Canada data on the most serious labour issue in Canada – the growing gap between the pay, pensions and benefits of government employees and what everybody else is getting.

Balanced Budget will Restore Confidence in Post-HST BC

Coulda, woulda, shoulda, didn’t. Over the coming weeks and months, there will be much navel-gazing by the BC Liberal government and its supporters over the spectacular failure of the HST. Discussions will continue on political fallout and campaign tactics, predictions of snap election calls and much gnashing of teeth over the terrible way the BC Liberals introduced the tax to the public.

Ontario’s debt is higher than projected in the budget

TORONTO, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) says McGuinty is using creative spin to understate Ontario’s debt problems and blaming a non-existent shortfall in tax revenues for the deficit. Ontario’s total debt as revealed in the public accounts yesterday is $286 million higher than forecast in this year’s budget, despite Premier Dalton McGuinty’s boasts of cutting the province’s deficit.

Plug Pulled on Video Games in Jail

After filing information requests with the government, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation recently discovered that Saskatchewan taxpayers have been picking up the bill for video games in government-run youth jails. Yes, video games. Thankfully, the controversial expenditures have been outlawed by the government in the future. Remarkably, it took just six hours from the time we raised it with the Premier’s office to the time they indicated taxpayers would never again have to pick up the tab for video games in provincial youth jails.

Crumbling Roads Snatched from Jaws of Repair

Would you rather see hundreds of roads and highways fixed in our province or the doubling of the size of the Winnipeg Convention Centre? Public opinion polls suggest Manitobans prefer option one. So why are news reports indicating that our politicians are moving ahead with option two?

Canadian Taxpayers Federation Urges NB Government to Cancel Tax Credit to Bathurst Movie

Canadian Taxpayers Federation Urges NB Government to Cancel Tax Credit to Bathurst Movie: Link Bathurst Mothers Say Lack of Consultation by Government and Producers an Insult to their Sons Memory: Money should be Spent on Student Transportation Safety (Bathurst, NB - August 12, 2011) - The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is urging the province of New Brunswick to cancel government funding for a controversial made for television movie that is supposed to be filmed in Bathurst and Fredericton this fall.

Pull the Plug on Video Games in Jail

Should provincial jails be buying the most expensive video game systems on the market while provincial government debt goes up by $50 a second? Of course not, but that’s what’s going on.

Headingley Holiday?

WINNIPEG, MB: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling on Justice Minister Andrew Swan to investigate troubling allegations made by a former guard turned whistleblower about five-star conditions at the Headingley Jail.