Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Most Recent Articles by Canadian Taxpayers Federation:
Ontario’s auditor general needs to launch a full investigation into the SmartTrack debacle and figure out who is responsible for wasting a nearly $100 million in taxpayer dollars;
Canadians support MP Dawson rejecting politician pay raise
February 24, 2026
“Prime Minister Mark Carney told Canadians to brace for ‘sacrifices,’ so the least politicians can do is stop stuffing their own wallets with more tax dollars"
Cost of federal bureaucracy up 80 per cent in 10 years: PBO
February 17, 2026
More government bureaucrats taking more money from taxpayers hasn’t resulted in better services for Canadians;
POLL: Canadians support cutting governor general’s salary
February 17, 2026
The governor general’s platinum pay and perks should’ve been reined in a long time ago;
Feds announce another alcohol tax hike
February 13, 2026
“If politicians think Canadians aren’t paying enough tax, they should at least have the spine to vote on the tax increase.”
MP Dawson shows leadership by rejecting pay raise
February 10, 2026
Leger polling shows 79 per cent of Canadians opposed the MP pay raise in 2025, 80 per cent opposed it in 2024, 80 per cent opposed it in 2023 and 79 per cent opposed MP pay raises in 2022;
Ottawa blocks details of failed Cape Breton pilot project
February 10, 2026
Premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Manitoba, Ontario, Northwest Territories, Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick all say their provinces will not participate in the program because it is unlikely to make Canadians safer;
Stop bailing out Canada Post
February 9, 2026
The government is broke and taxpayers can’t afford to bailout every Crown corporation that goes to Ottawa begging for more money;
Canadians forced Ottawa to retreat from its wildly unrealistic plan to ban all new gas and diesel vehicle sales in less than a decade, Now Mark Carney is using less transparent subsidies and regulations to impose a plan that’s almost as unrealistic;
MPs getting another big pay hike this year
February 3, 2026
Canadians need MPs who will be champions for taxpayers and demand an end to these pay raises, because when politicians pad their pockets, bureaucrats demand more money too;
Executive bonuses cost taxpayers $201 million last year
January 28, 2026
Bonuses are supposed to be for doing a good job, but bureaucrats are handing them out like participation ribbons
GST relief right idea but wrong execution
January 26, 2026
Cutting taxes is the right idea, but Canadians need more from the government than a bigger GST credit;
Toronto police right to resist Carney’s gun grab: Taxpayers
January 22, 2026
Now, Ford needs to stand up for taxpayers and pass legislation to stop the gun confiscation like Saskatchewan and Alberta;
The government needs to focus on the real problem of criminals and illegal guns not going after licensed firearm owners
Federal hidden carbon tax costs seven cents per litre of gas in 2026
January 15, 2026
“Canada’s own emissions are not large enough to materially impact climate change;”
Report: Shrinking the bloated federal bureaucracy
January 12, 2026
A Leger poll found that 54 per cent of Canadians want the federal government to reduce the size and cost of its bureaucracy;
Failed pilot project shows gun confiscation must be scrapped
January 10, 2026
The results of this pilot project show exactly why police officers, academics, licenced gun owners and everyday taxpayers knew that the gun ban was going to be a failure from the start;
City Hall wasted $2,000 on plaque for a dead raccoon
December 29, 2025
“It’s bad enough that bureaucrats wasted money on a plaque for a dead raccoon, but they spent twice as much as a plaque should cost;”
High-speed rail a costly boondoggle
December 19, 2025
The government is up to its eyeballs in debt and is already spending hundreds of millions of dollars bailing out its current train company, the last thing taxpayers need is to pay higher debt interest charges for a new government train boondoggle;
POLL: Canadians say industrial carbon tax makes life more expensive
December 16, 2025
“It’s doesn’t matter what lipstick politicians put on their carbon tax pig, all carbon taxes make life more expensive, hurt our economy and don’t work.”
Major tax changes in 2026: Report
December 15, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney needs to significantly cut spending, provide major tax relief and scrap all carbon taxes
Carney’s Toronto cabinet meetings cost $530,000
December 4, 2025
“We need a culture change in Ottawa and that needs to start with the prime minister and ministers respecting taxpayers’ hard-earned money;"
Higher carbon taxes are a bad deal for taxpayers
November 29, 2025
“The hidden carbon tax on business is the worst of all worlds: Higher prices and fewer Canadian jobs.”
Ottawa has a duty to disclose these records to band members who request them and that both the federal government and First Nation leaders must be transparent about band trust funds;
Cost of bureaucracy balloons 80 per cent in 10 years: Public Accounts
November 18, 2025
Taxpayers should not be paying way more for in-house government bureaucrats and way more for outside help,” Terrazzano said. “Mere promises to find minor savings in the federal bureaucracy won’t fix Canada’s finances;
PBO slices through Carney’s creative accounting
November 16, 2025
Terrazzano: Carney isn’t balancing anything when he borrows tens of billions of dollars every year
Budget 2025 continues to balloon spending and debt
November 4, 2025
Carney’s hidden carbon tax will make it harder for Canadian businesses to compete and will push Canadian entrepreneurs to set up shop south of the border
Taxpayers granted leave to intervene in N.L. equalization court case
October 22, 2025
Taxpayers across the country shouldn’t be forced to bankroll whatever new spending provincial politicians dream up;
The government needs to change the rule book by simplifying the tax code;
Carney’s tax filing announcement shows consultation was a sham
October 13, 2025
Hours after the consultation ended, Carney today announced the government would expand automatic tax filing