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#122 1.2 billion reasons to defund the CBC Jan 02, 2023

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Taxpayers pay about $1.2 billion per year for the CBC. That amount could instead pay the
salaries of more than 13,000 nurses. It could cover the grocery bills for 100,000 families. It’s
time to defund the CBC.

READ MORE HERE: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/sims-the-cbc-is-a-
government-monster-gobbling-up-tax-dollars

Come on prime minister, you’ve had enough alcohol taxes

Taxes already account for about half of the price of beer, 65 per cent of the price of wine and
more than three quarters of the price of spirits. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rubbing
margarita salt in the wound by using high inflation to binge on higher alcohol taxes in 2023.

SIGN THE PETITITION: https://www.taxpayer.com/petitions/reduce-liquor-taxes

Which politicians were naughty or nice in 2022?

From spending $6,000 per night on a hotel room to racking up nearly six figures on fancy
airplane food and handing out bonuses to failing central bankers, plenty of politicians and
bureaucrats were on the Taxpayer Naughty list in 2022.

READ MORE HERE: https://www.taxpayer.com/media/taxpayer-naughty-nice-list-2022.pdf

#121 Trudeau subsidizes 391 dead people Dec 20, 2022

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Trudeau subsidizes 391 dead people

The Trudeau government spent at least $32 billion on suspicious or ineligible COVID-19 payments. The government handed out COVID-19 subsidies to hundreds of dead people, hundreds of people in jail and hundreds of Canadians under the age of 15.

Trudeau hiking FIVE taxes in 2023

The CPP tax, EI tax, carbon tax and alcohol taxes are all going up. The feds are also imposing a second carbon tax through fuel regulations in 2023. Here’s a New Year’s resolution for the Trudeau government: stop wasting money, start cutting taxes.

Government contractor milks taxpayers

The Ontario government’s transit contractor is going $8 billion over budget on a subway project. That’s enough money to build eight hospitals. Unfortunately, huge cost overruns have become the rule rather than the exception with government contractors across Canada.

#120 Quebec’s Special Deal on Carbon Tax Dec 09, 2022

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There’s a fundamental unfairness about the federal carbon tax: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is requiring taxpayers in other provinces to pay a higher carbon tax than in Quebec. Trudeau’s special deal for Quebec shows the carbon tax was always about politics, not the environment.

Trudeau Balloons His Buyback Boondoggle

Trudeau is going after more law-abiding Canadians. He is trying to ban thousands of additional long guns. The original gun ban and buyback was already ineffective and expensive. This could cost taxpayers another $1 billion. And it won’t improve safety.

Wait, a Politician Wants Less Pay?

British Columbia MLA Todd Stone put forward a private member’s bill to freeze politician pay. It would’ve killed the $10,000-pay raises for politicians. Too bad the rest of his colleagues couldn’t keep their snouts out of the trough. The B.C. government refused to debate Stone’s bill.

#119 Senate Committee Gets and Earful About Online Censorship Nov 28, 2022

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The House of Commons committee stifled debate on the online censorship bill, C-11, but the Senate committee is diving in and our Ontario Director Jay Goldberg let them have it about the dangers of the legislation.

WATCH JAY’S TESTOMONY HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHwYFqfn4M&t=1s

READ THE E-BOOK HERE: https://www.taxpayer.com/media/Final%20C-11%20Report.pdf

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#118 Feds blow the budget by $20B (already) Nov 21, 2022

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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is already set to spend $20 billion over her own budget. And we’re only about half way through the fiscal year. But here’s the most amazing part: Freeland called her budgeting “prudent.”

Cold winter, big carbon tax bill

Winter is coming and the carbon tax makes it more expensive to keep your home warm. We break down how much the carbon tax will cost Canadians this winter.

We found the bill for the governor general’s Middle East trip

Governor General Mary Simon and her entourage billed taxpayers $1.3 million on the week-long trip to the Middle East. Can Simon prove that spending $1.3 million on a week-long trip is a better use of tax dollars than hiring more nurses or helping struggling Canadian taxpayers? The CTF dug up the data, and the National Post ran the story on its front page.

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#117 Testifying to the Finance Committee on Behalf of Taxpayers Nov 08, 2022

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Federal Director Franco Terrazzano sits down with Alberta Director Kris Sims to discuss his testimony to the Finance Committee.

#116 That’s NOT how bonuses should work Oct 28, 2022

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Bureaucrats are taking big pay raises and bonuses. And they’re demanding more. Much more

Lovable nerds replicate $50M ArriveCAN app

A few techies spent a weekend replicating the government’s ArriveCAN app. What they did for fun, the government spent $54 million to build. Is that a good deal for taxpayers?

Students stand up to government debt

Government debt will hit young people the hardest and young people across Canada are hitting back. The CTF’s student organization, Generation Screwed, is taking off.

READ MORE: generationscrewed.ca

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#115 Up? Really? What’s With the Carbon Tax? Oct 12, 2022

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#115 Up? Really? What’s With the Carbon Tax?

The cost of living is skyrocketing, and the federal government is making things worse by hiking the carbon tax. We have the details.

If CPP and EI Quack Like a Tax…

If something looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it’s a duck. Likewise, if something takes money from you like a tax, funds government redistribution like a tax, and even the government admits it’s a tax, then it’s a tax.

But the federal government is trying to hide that from you, while taking too much from your paycheque.

We’re No Safer, but the Gun Ban Bill’s Higher

Taxpayers been billed over $3 million in office costs alone for the bureaucrats running the federal gun ban and buyback scheme, without a single gun being purchased to date. We found the records that prove it.

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#114 Tax Cuts Everywhere But Canada Oct 06, 2022

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Tax Cuts Everywhere But Canada

Other countries are cutting taxes, but here in Canada, the federal government is raising the carbon tax, payroll taxes, and alcohol taxes, actively choosing to make life more expensive.

What Is Carpaccio Anyway?

While Canadians were trying to figure out how to stretch their food budget, Governor General Mary Simon and her entourage were enjoying beef wellington and fancy Italian snacks as they flew around Europe and the Middle East. We dug up the receipts.

Pay for Your Own Pole, Councillor Jankov

Charlottetown taxpayers picked up the $4,600 tab to take out a utility pole that was blocking city councillor Alana Jankov’s driveway, even though she and her husband had moved their driveway to face the pole AND the city government had been told it was the homeowner’s responsibility to pay for the work. We dug up the records.

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#113 Look Who’s Fighting Carbon Taxes Now Sep 27, 2022

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Newfoundland and Labrador’s Liberal Premier Andrew Furey is taking a swing at the federal carbon tax.

https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/trudeau-government-not-serious-about-making-life-more-affordable

Will Taxes Make You Skinny?

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Liberal Premier Andrew Furey is bringing in a new hidden tax on sugary beverages in his province.

Surprise Surprise: Home Equity Tax is Unpopular

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s own study found 95 per cent of social media comments are against a home equity tax, according to records dug up by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

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