Volkswagen will get up to $13 billion in corporate welfare in exchange for a $7-billion electric car battery plant By Franco Terrazzano and Jay Goldberg More than $4 million per job. That’s how much Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed taxpayers to spending in his sweetheart deal with a German auto giant. Flanked by Ontario…
Pay raises during the pandemic and no worries about losing their jobs not enough: They now want up to 47% more from taxpayers Canadians shouldn’t feel sorry for privileged federal bureaucrats. They don’t have to worry about losing their jobs or missing a paycheque. They get pay raises and bonuses, even if they don’t meet…
The raise for a backbench MP works out to an extra $5,100, while Trudeau is pocketing an extra $10,200 By Kris Sims and Franco Terrazzano The divide between Ottawa’s pampered political class and the everyday taxpayers who fund them is getting wider and deeper by the second. Albertans are now paying more to heat their…
Any flicker of hope the Trudeau government will ever balance the budget has vanished You know you’ve been in Ottawa too long when you forget what saving money means. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland claims she is “exercising fiscal restraint” and “reducing government spending by more than $15 billion.” Here are the numbers in Budget 2023.…
Politicians don’t deserve pay raises while making life unaffordable for Canadians In just over two weeks, members of Parliament will take more money out of your wallet and stuff more into their own. On April 1, the federal government is increasing carbon and alcohol taxes while MPs take their fourth pay raise since the onset…
Trudeau government just shrugs when asked what “significant labour market disruptions” actually means By Franco Terrazzano and Kris Sims Ottawa seems to have only one message about its Just Transition policy: “trust me.” How many people’s jobs are on the line? How much will it cost? Are the numbers bubbling up accurate? Those are big…
Taxpayers have a right to be mad at the government People are hurting. But the anger towards the federal government comes from a deeper sense of being ripped off. Taxes and regulations are making it hard to put food on the table. Politicians and bureaucrats are misleading us. They’re wasting our money and not being…
Canadians are paying too much tax because the government wastes too much money Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to govern for “the middle class and those working hard to join it.” Canadians can be forgiven if we feel he’s forgotten that promise. Whether it’s the nurse working at the hospital, the mom who commutes to…
Taxpayers aren’t unlimited pools of cash In a rare show of unity, members of Parliament from all parties are angrily demanding answers about sky-high expenses racked up by Governor General Mary Simon and her team. Curiously, Rideau Hall’s rebuttal is essentially that the expenses are “not very extravagant.” [Emphasis added]. MPs haven’t bought that line…
Uses inflation to covertly increase its tax take every year on April 1 With sky-high inflation, climbing interest rates and carbon tax hikes, you could be forgiven for drinking. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rubbing margarita salt in the wound by using high inflation to binge on higher alcohol taxes. In 2023, the Trudeau…
Volkswagen will get up to $13 billion in corporate welfare in exchange for a $7-billion electric car battery plant By Franco Terrazzano and Jay Goldberg More than $4 million per job. That’s how much Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed taxpayers to spending in his sweetheart deal with a German auto giant. Flanked by Ontario…
Pay raises during the pandemic and no worries about losing their jobs not enough: They now want up to 47% more from taxpayers Canadians shouldn’t feel sorry for privileged federal bureaucrats. They don’t have to worry about losing their jobs or missing a paycheque. They get pay raises and bonuses, even if they don’t meet…
The raise for a backbench MP works out to an extra $5,100, while Trudeau is pocketing an extra $10,200 By Kris Sims and Franco Terrazzano The divide between Ottawa’s pampered political class and the everyday taxpayers who fund them is getting wider and deeper by the second. Albertans are now paying more to heat their…
Any flicker of hope the Trudeau government will ever balance the budget has vanished You know you’ve been in Ottawa too long when you forget what saving money means. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland claims she is “exercising fiscal restraint” and “reducing government spending by more than $15 billion.” Here are the numbers in Budget 2023.…
Politicians don’t deserve pay raises while making life unaffordable for Canadians In just over two weeks, members of Parliament will take more money out of your wallet and stuff more into their own. On April 1, the federal government is increasing carbon and alcohol taxes while MPs take their fourth pay raise since the onset…
Trudeau government just shrugs when asked what “significant labour market disruptions” actually means By Franco Terrazzano and Kris Sims Ottawa seems to have only one message about its Just Transition policy: “trust me.” How many people’s jobs are on the line? How much will it cost? Are the numbers bubbling up accurate? Those are big…
Taxpayers have a right to be mad at the government People are hurting. But the anger towards the federal government comes from a deeper sense of being ripped off. Taxes and regulations are making it hard to put food on the table. Politicians and bureaucrats are misleading us. They’re wasting our money and not being…
Canadians are paying too much tax because the government wastes too much money Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to govern for “the middle class and those working hard to join it.” Canadians can be forgiven if we feel he’s forgotten that promise. Whether it’s the nurse working at the hospital, the mom who commutes to…
Taxpayers aren’t unlimited pools of cash In a rare show of unity, members of Parliament from all parties are angrily demanding answers about sky-high expenses racked up by Governor General Mary Simon and her team. Curiously, Rideau Hall’s rebuttal is essentially that the expenses are “not very extravagant.” [Emphasis added]. MPs haven’t bought that line…
Uses inflation to covertly increase its tax take every year on April 1 With sky-high inflation, climbing interest rates and carbon tax hikes, you could be forgiven for drinking. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rubbing margarita salt in the wound by using high inflation to binge on higher alcohol taxes. In 2023, the Trudeau…