#8 Senators Take a Pay Raise, Judges Demanding Pay Raises, Taxpayers Billed for Hollywood Party and New Zealand’s Gun Buyback

Tom Korski digs into the huge planning problems with Ottawa’s gun policy. He also does the math on government golf courses and pulls back the curtain on internet censorship.   Korski is the senior reporter for the investigative journalism website Blacklock’s Reporter. Check it out at: blacklocks.ca.   Check out the CANADIAN TAXPAYERS STORE!   Scrap the Gun Ban and Buyback Petition: LINK 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 – Canada’s Deficit the Biggest in the World The news is officially bad: Canada’s government is spending more money than any other time in our history. Todd MacKay and B.C Director Kris Sims talk about the warnings from economist Jack Mintz.  Link: https://financialpost.com/opinion/jack-m-mintz-in-government-spending-and-deficits-were-now-no-1-in-the-world Deep Dive – Alberta and Quebec Agree C-69 is Bad Alberta and Quebec agree on something: they’re both against Bill C-69, better known as the “No More Pipelines Law.” Alberta Director Franco Terrazzano and Quebec Director Renaud Brossard unite to talk about the reasons behind the rare shared vision. Links: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-national-unity-crisis-even-quebec-thinks-c-69-is-a-bad-bill/ Sign the PETITION: https://www.taxpayer.com/petitions/tell-ottawa-to-get-out-of-the-way-of-the-energy-sector Waste Watch – Quebec Keeps Buying Broken Ships and Crashing Them into Docks Maybe they need a new map? The Quebec government keeps crashing ships into docks and wasting taxpayers’ money. Todd MacKay and Renaud Brossard discuss the nautical nonsense.  Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-ferry-whistleblowers-1.5283510 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. ...

Quebec Axes Vax Tax Quebec has backed down from its plan to impose a tax on unvaccinated people after the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and others opposed the tax. READ MORE: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-scraps-proposed-tax-on-the-unvaccinated-announces-gyms-and-spas-can-reopen-1.5762751   Federal Bureaucrats Get Pay Raises During Pandemic     Documents dug up by the CTF show over 300,000 federal bureaucrats received pay raises during the COVID-19 pandemic.   READ OUR REPORT HERE: https://www.taxpayer.com/media/Report-pandemic-pay-raise.pdf   Provincial Bureaucrats Also Get Pandemic Pay Raises   The tale of two pandemics continued on the provincial level, with over 200,000 raises approved for provincial bureaucrats across the country.   READ OUR REPORT HERE: https://www.taxpayer.com/media/Report-pandemic-pay-raise.pdf SIGN the PETITION https://www.taxpayer.com/petitions/stop-trudeau%E2%80%99s-debt-dive 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. ...