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Derek Fildebrandt is an iconoclastic reactionary known for bouts of righteous fury at all that is wrong with the world.
When channelling his energy into more productive endeavours, he serves as the National Research Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, where he focuses his time and effort on Canada’s federal debt and politicians who spend money that doesn’t exist.
His columns appear regularly in The Taxpayer and Report Magazine, and he blogs at Fildebrandt.ca, Kicking Taxes and Taking Names (Taxpayer.com), and the Libertas Post.
Born in Ottawa, Derek graduated from the People’s Commissariat of Carleton University with a degree in both political sciences and history. During his studies, he worked for a national security think-tank and on Parliament Hill, in addition to founding and leading the Reagan-Goldwater Society, a rabble-rousing student organization that to his distress, was never banned by the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
After graduating with an Honours Bachelor of Arts, Derek served as a policy analyst for the Forum of Labour Market Ministers in Victoria, B.C. where he was a part of efforts to amend the Agreement on Internal Trade. This amendment helped Canada to act economically as if it were a single country.
When Derek isn’t raging against the taxman and destroying his prospects of landing government contracts, he is an avid outdoors-man with a passion for distance-running, hiking, camping, fishing and biking. He has a german shepherd named King and is a dedicated fan of Neil Young and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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