Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Most Recent Articles by Canadian Taxpayers Federation:
The next government will have a choice between carbon taxes that punish families but don't empower them, and technologies that empower families to find ways to cut costs and carbon
Record high gas prices show need for gas tax reform
May 18, 2018
• Ontario’s hidden carbon tax, excise tax, and tax-on-tax, drive gas prices even higher during peak periods
• CTF celebrates 20th annual Gas Tax Honesty Day
• CTF celebrates 20th annual Gas Tax Honesty Day
Subsidy-dependent industries will die off. But the trade-off will be a welcoming business culture that attracts competitive, sustainable businesses that are interested in making money the old-fashioned way: by actually earning it
In historic legal battles between governments, somebody needs to stand up for taxpayers
• 2018 version of the Income Tax Act is 1,101,499 words long, an increase of 45,547 words from last year
• It would take the average reader 61 hours to read it (three hours and 27 minutes more than last year)
• It would take the average reader 61 hours to read it (three hours and 27 minutes more than last year)
Carbon Taxes: The Washington state experience
April 24, 2018
Todd Myers from the Washington Policy Center coming to Canada to share Washington state's experience with carbon taxes
Nationalizing the Trans Mountain pipeline is a terrible idea
April 17, 2018
The Trans Mountain debacle is not a market failure. It is a political failure—and now our politicians are trying to buy their way out of the very mess they created in the first place
Admit to Canadians that slashing carbon emissions will be expensive, difficult and painful, and all the sacrifice could well be for nothing if other countries aren’t doing the same
"Wab is right: Pallister's carbon tax will cost people a lot of money, but it won't help the environment."
This year, the Ontario government ran a $6.7 billion deficit
More Canadians still rank a strong economy and cost of living as higher priorities
No Escalator Tax campaign
• Minister Sousa brags of fiscal prudence while running $6.7 billion deficit
• Government plans on running six years of deficits while simultaneously raising income taxes
• Government plans on running six years of deficits while simultaneously raising income taxes
Stop letting Wynne call it a ‘modest’ deficit
March 27, 2018
Taxpayers need to take a serious look at the budget when it's tabled at Queen's Park on Wednesday, and ask themselves if an additional $5,600 in their household budget is "modest," and who could spend it better: their family, or Premier Wynne?
Canada needs more investment, not another government agency
March 27, 2018
Make Canada a place where it's easy to set up shop, easy to do business and easy to turn a profit.
Yes, the Sunshine List still matters
March 26, 2018
Accountability matters, and taxpayers in Ontario have very few tools in their toolbox for holding their government accountable for how their hard earned tax dollars are spent
Balanced budgets still matter to Canadians
March 21, 2018
The result of this recklessness is that the party that could once credibly claim strong fiscal bona fides – the party of Paul Martin, deficit slaying finance minister – has seen its economic credentials steadily erode since coming to office
Transparency strengthened at Thunderchild First Nation
March 16, 2018
Thunderchild's leaders are getting more money than most First Nations leaders and that's something bandmembers need to talk about in the next election
It is critically important to slay the deficit because the money wasted on interest on the existing debt is now more than $1 billion every year.”
Morneau’s ‘Seinfeld’ budget punts on the big issues
February 28, 2018
To get back to a balanced budget, Minister Morneau will need to do more than just stand still. He’ll actually need to make some tough choices.
Taxpayers Federation: Budget 2018 still offers no plan back to balance
February 27, 2018
• Federal debt to rise a further $80 billion by 2022 – a total increase of $110 billion since Liberals came into office
• Tax changes will squeeze an additional $1 billion annually out of small businesses by 2022
• Tax changes will squeeze an additional $1 billion annually out of small businesses by 2022
NAFTA can help end corporate welfare
February 23, 2018
NAFTA may or may not be beyond saving — but putting forward a proposal that could help pre-empt costly future trade spats and prevent future subsidy bidding wars might be worth a shot
To tackle the tax haven problem, simplify the tax code
February 21, 2018
Public confidence that our tax system is fair has been steadily eroded across the political spectrum
Here’s how to balance the federal budget
February 16, 2018
Trudeau government should honour their commitment to get back to balance, and stop piling more debt on the backs of future generations
20th annual CTF Teddy Awards for government waste
February 14, 2018
• Federal - Heritage Canada--$8.2 million Canada 150 Parliament Hill rink
• Provincial - Ontario’s $39 billion Fair Hydro Plan
• Municipal - Montreal--$34 million Formula E subsidy
• Lifetime Achievement - Calgary’s art program
• Provincial - Ontario’s $39 billion Fair Hydro Plan
• Municipal - Montreal--$34 million Formula E subsidy
• Lifetime Achievement - Calgary’s art program
Ontario PC leadership candidates sign CTF ‘No Carbon Tax’ pledge
February 11, 2018
All three candidates promise in writing to eliminate cap-and-trade and oppose a federal carbon tax
PCs need to dump the ‘People’s Guarantee’
February 8, 2018
The next Ontario PC leader has no choice but to fight carbon taxes
February 8, 2018