Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Most Recent Articles by Canadian Taxpayers Federation:
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
Government distorts financial picture with definition of capital
October 8, 2025
“Taxpayers will need to cut through all the accounting noise from the government and focus on one question: Is the debt going up or down?”
PBO report projects soaring deficit and debt interest charges
September 26, 2025
"Carney sold Canadians on the idea he wasn’t like Trudeau and when it comes to the debt here’s the truth: Carney plans to borrow billions of dollars more than Trudeau;"
Stop wasting money and scrap the gun ban
September 23, 2025
Cops, academics, licenced gun owners and everyday taxpayers know that this program won’t do anything to make Canadians safer;
Carney must end ban on the sale of new gas and diesel vehicles now
September 5, 2025
The federal government has already put taxpayers on the hook for up to $31.4 billion for subsidies for battery factories and the electric vehicle supply chain
Carney must cut unaffordable government spending
September 4, 2025
Member of Parliament Pay, Bureaucracy Costs, Corporate Welfare
Ottawa should pull the plug on EV corporate welfare
September 3, 2025
The government is broke and it should not give taxpayers’ money to corporations
The CTF will argue that the duplication created by the Impact Assessment Act undermines provincial autonomy, reduces accountability, and imposes unnecessary costs and delays on taxpayers across the country;
PBO report warns of ballooning bureaucracy costs
August 28, 2025
Half of Canadians say federal services have gotten worse since 2016
Taxpayers score win in capital gains court fight
August 17, 2025
If the CRA can get away with this once, it can do it again and that’s why we’re pressing forward in this case.”
POLL: Most Canadians support cutting the bureaucracy
August 11, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney should listen to Canadians and cut the size and cost of government bureaucracy;
Lifetime Achievement Teddy Waste Award Winner: Former prime minister Justin Trudeau
Massive borrowing, soaring interest charges unacceptable
June 19, 2025
“Borrowing tens of billions of dollars every year is unaffordable and unacceptable,”
Poll: Canadians want spending cuts
June 9, 2025
“Prime Minister Mark Carney told Canadians he would rein in spending, but spending is ballooning again this year”
"Ordinary Canadians and the experts both know this policy isn’t going to make anyone safer so the government needs to stop wasting money on this scheme"