Bureaucrats are taking big pay raises and bonuses. And they’re demanding more. Much more
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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?
READ MORE HERE: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-two-canadian-tech-companies-say-each-recreated-arrivecan-app-to-show/
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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Canadians place a high value on their freedom of speech, but the way we use that freedom could be changing depending on the outcome of the federal election. We wanted to make it easy for the average Canadian to make sense of the issue, so our interim Ontario Director Jay Goldberg and our Prairie Director Todd MacKay put their heads together for this podcast. They broke down the whole issue, and how much each party’s plan might cost the country. Check out the CANADIAN TAXPAYERS STORE! Like this show? Subscribe and give us 5-stars! This podcast is brought to you by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Canada’s premier grassroots advocacy group pushing for lower taxes, less waste and accountable governments. Sign-up as a Canadian Taxpayers Federation supporter at no-charge TODAY: https://www.taxpayer.com/join. ...
Why is Ottawa in Farmers’ Way? Canadian farmers and fertilizer producers are world leaders in sustainable farming practices, but that isn’t stopping the Trudeau government from raising carbon taxes and the possibility of restricting fertilizer use. Prairie Director Robin Speer has the view from the farm. READ MORE HERE: https://www.sasktoday.ca/opinion/opinion-ottawa-should-stop-stoking-food-insecurity-5784598 UCP Candidates Pledge No PST In a huge win for taxpayers, the majority of candidates in Alberta’s United Conservative Party leadership race have signed the CTF’s pledge rejecting a PST and have also promised not to raise taxes. On top of those wins, Alberta has also ended bracket creep. READ MORE HERE: https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/ucp-candidates-pledge-not-to-impose-a-pst-or-raise-taxes https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/scrapping-bracket-creep-and-paying-down-the-debt-huge-wins-for-taxpayers Waste Watch: Federal Tourism Agency Gets Bonuses (Even With No Tourism) When the tourism industry was locked down during the pandemic, most tourism agencies had to cut costs. But the lucky federal bureaucrats at Destination Canada, the federal tourism-promotion Crown corporation, didn’t face any hardships. They even got bonuses! We dug up the records laying out the lockdown pay bumps. READ MORE: https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/federal-tourism-agency-handed-out-bonuses-and-pay-raises-while-industry-locked-down Check out the CANADIAN TAXPAYERS STORE! Like this show? Subscribe and give us 5-stars! This podcast is brought to you by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Canada’s premier grassroots advocacy group pushing for lower taxes, less waste and accountable governments. Sign-up as a Canadian Taxpayers Federation supporter at no-charge TODAY: https://www.taxpayer.com/join. ...
News at the Top – Fighting Against Equalization We just launched the Fight Equalization campaign. Everyone across Canada, should mark their calendars for Oct. 18, 2021, as Albertans vote on the future of equalization. Our Alberta Director Franco Terrazano and our Quebec Director Renaud Brossard discuss our campaign, and what happens next. Link: https://fightequalization.ca/ Deep Dive – Explaining the Great Reset There’s been a lot of chatter about what the “Great Reset” is, so we brought in our Ontario Director Jasmine Moulton and our Federal Director Aaron Wudrick to break it all down. Link: https://torontosun.com/opinion/furey-trudeaus-economic-statement-is-all-about-the-great-reset https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-great-reset-is-mostly-just-liberals-blowing-off-steam-mostly/ https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/ Waste Watch – Governor Generals Billing Us Beyond the Grave Our very own investigative journalist, James Wood, is back this week with an exclusive about the taxpayer-funded expense account for governor generals. As it turns out, the bills run into the afterlife! Link: https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/former-governor-generals-allowed-to-bill-canadians-beyond-the-grave?id=18875 Like this show? Subscribe and give us 5-stars! This podcast is brought to you by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Canada’s premier grassroots advocacy group pushing for lower taxes, less waste and accountable governments. Sign-up as a Canadian Taxpayers Federation supporter at no-charge TODAY: https://www.taxpayer.com/join. ...
