Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Most Recent Articles by Canadian Taxpayers Federation:

Your Money, Their Quarter Billion Dollar Secret February 14, 2013
We’ll be “damned” if we let this issue go away.
ON: Wynne’s Balanced Budget Promise Requires Action February 14, 2013
Newly minted Premier Kathleen Wynne has some work to do to establish her competency for this enormous task
CTF Names New Queen’s Park Watchdog February 13, 2013
Candice Malcolm appointed new Ontario Director
Chief Redman Needs to Pack It In February 11, 2013
Standing Buffalo First Nation
Metro and TransLink Make Compelling Case Against Regional Policing February 7, 2013
Regional policing may be worthwhile but more study is needed on costs, form, governance and impact of a regional force.
Explosive on a Plane not Transit Police Officer’s Only Blunder February 7, 2013
Canine Neglect, Deceit and Corrupt Practice
Sask Chief’s Pay Higher Than Thought February 7, 2013
Redman and council need to accept impeachment and stop clinging to power
$223,531,822.71 Secret Is Unacceptable February 7, 2013
Expenses on legal and consulting costs for northern Manitoba dams
CTF Presents Balanced Budget Plan to Horner February 6, 2013
Calls for $3.8 billion in specific cuts to balance the budget
Canada’s EI surplus: now you see it, now you don’t February 6, 2013
Years of gouging Canadian workers created a massive EI surplus, perfect for an economic storm like the 2008 financial meltdown
BC: CTF Calls On Minister To Reject Latest TransLink Tax Grab February 6, 2013
CTF and whistleblowers have outlined concerns about TransLink spending
Can We Stop Talking About the HST Now? January 30, 2013
Provincial budgets have been on a roller coaster of deficits, due in no small part to HST policy shifting so radically, so quickly.
Union Attack on Canadian Companies is Laughable January 30, 2013
Canadian Labour Congress
Unions Talking Out of Both Sides of Their Mouth on Business Tax Rates January 29, 2013
Federal corporate tax revenue rising despite lower rates
Systemic Aboriginal Reserve Reform Ideas January 22, 2013
It’s time to keep Ottawa’s fingers out of micro managing reserve land
Transit Police Left Explosive Device on Plane January 21, 2013
CTF renews call for Transit Police to be disbanded
How Alberta Came to the Cliff of Debt and Tax Hikes January 18, 2013
Albertans don’t need a tax hike and they don’t need their government to saddle them with a burdening debt
Ontario Doesn’t Have a Smoking Epidemic on Reserves - We Have a Crime Epidemic January 10, 2013
Ontario and federal governments are losing somewhere between $742 million and $1.2 billion in tobacco tax revenue annually in Ontario
BC: CTF Releases New Year’s Tax Changes for 2013 December 27, 2012
“This could just be the tip of the iceberg,”
Another Bitter Year Brewing for B.C. Taxpayers December 27, 2012
CTF Releases Nation-Wide New Year’s Tax Changes for 2013 December 27, 2012
Health taxes bite hard in Quebec and BC
Ontario Losing Millions in Tobacco Tax Each Year to Contraband on Reserves December 19, 2012
New data suggests up to 79 per cent of all tax-exempt allocation tobacco sales made on reserve ‘smoke shacks’ were likely illegal in 2011-12
BC: Taxpayers Feel Pain of Politicians Going ‘Green’ December 17, 2012
Regional politicians get overly excited with the possibilities of going green – even when the perception doesn’t line up with reality
Staggering Federal Payroll Costs Help Explain Ottawa’s Runaway Deficits December 13, 2012
Unless the Harper government takes serious steps to get its payroll costs under control, taxpayers should really consider a prosecution for false advertising
Keep Pushing Mr. Premier December 11, 2012
The average family in Saskatchewan is doing much better than a decade years ago.
Alberta Liquor Lessons for Ontario December 7, 2012
Ontario can take a lesson from Alberta
Zero Waste? Not When It Comes To Metro Vancouver Politicians November 26, 2012
Five Metro politicians collected $2,076 in meeting fees while non-elected speakers volunteered their time
Canada’s Federal Debt Hits (Ugly) Milestone: $600,000,000,000, Saturday, November 24th, at 11: November 23, 2012
“Massive borrowing is a slippery slope that leads to the kind of chaos we’re witnessing in Greece,”
Harper and Flaherty don’t have a revenue problem November 21, 2012
If revenues are going up and not going down, why is the deficit going up and not going down?
CTF, Grassroots & Minister Speak Out on C-27 Politicians November 21, 2012
“My spouse and I have been harassed, my house vandalized and members of our local accountability organization have been intimidated for speaking out,”