Friends Don’t Let Friends Withhold Information

So the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting (let’s just call them ‘Friends’) are a little upset with us for upturning some of their financial dealings with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). We sort of expected that.
In their response we were delighted to read that contrary what we had been told by the CBC, “All members of [...]

February 3, 2012 Tags: Access to Information, ATIP, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, CBC, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting Posted in: Blog Content 3 Comments

CTF Uncovers New G8/G20 Waste

We all know about the G8/G20’s $930-million security bill and the infamous “fake lake,” but Access to Information (ATI) requests by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) have uncovered a whole new basket of wasteful goods. This ATI request filed with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) found nearly $227-thousand spent on “promotional [...]

February 2, 2011 Tags: Canadian Taxpayers Federation, G20, G8, G8/G20, Waste Posted in: Blog Content 2 Comments

How to Balance the Budget in 2 Years

Don’t tell me it can’t be done. We’ve run the numbers. It can.

Should the political will exist, Ottawa can eliminate its deficit in two years without raising taxes, or even draconian cuts for that matter.

January 17, 2011 Tags: Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Debt, Deficit, Deficit Action Plan, Zero in Two Posted in: Blog Content One Comment

Go Ahead, Make My Day ~ Published in The Landowner magazine

The following article appears in the July 2010 issue of The Landowner magazine.
“I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he spend $60 billion or only 50?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement and stimulus I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is an overtaxed country with a half trillion [...]

September 21, 2010 Tags: Brian Mulroney, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Clint Eastwood, Deficit, Dirty Harry, Jim Flaherty, Pierre Trudeau, Stephen Harper, Zero in Three Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed

Flip and/or Flop: Fallout from an MP Expense Audit

“Bipartisanship” is just another word for ‘all-party consensus on how to gang-up on the people.’ This “bipartisanship” is a facade that can only stand so long as all parties see it as in their interest to maintain it. And thus is how the cookie crumbles.
“I told you so” would be the likely response from a [...]

May 27, 2010 Tags: Auditor General, Bloc Québécois, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Conservative Party of Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, MP Expenses, NDP, New Democratic Party, Sheila Fraser Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed

Video: Canada’s Debt History

Watch this short video by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and pass it on. Email it to your friends, share it on Facebook and post it on your blog.

February 25, 2010 Tags: Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Debt, Debt Clock, debtclock.ca, Deficits, Economic Action Plan, Stimulus Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed

CTF and Manning Centre Internship Program

Applications are now open for students to apply for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) and Manning Centre’s joint internship program. The Manning Centre and CTF (along with several other advocacy groups) partnered with the Manning Centre last summer to give students a chance to work on the front-lines of the taxpayer’s movement and acquire excellent [...]

February 9, 2010 Tags: Canadian Taxpayers Federation, CTF, Internship, Manning Centre for Building Democracy, The Taxpayer Posted in: Blog Content, Published Comments Closed

Video: Don’t be a FCINO Mr. Prime Minister

Please share this video from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

February 8, 2010 Tags: Canadian Taxpayers Federation, FCINO, Stephen Harper Posted in: Blog Content One Comment

Jennifer Lynch & “Human Rights” Commission Busted by Taxpayer.com

• $10,400 wasted on a 2008 trip to Geneva
• $10,300 on a 2008 trip to Dublin and Copenhagen
• $8,893 squandered on airfare alone for a 2008 trip to Malaysia
• $8,323 blown on a 2007 trip to Geneva
• $7,140 minimum on a 2008 trip Vienna, of which the actual figures are not yet released
Canada’s chief censorship bureaucrat Jennifer Lynch has been [...]

December 16, 2009 Tags: Busted by Taxpayer.com, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, CHRH, CTF, Human Rights Commission, Jennifer Lynch Posted in: Blog Content 6 Comments

Taxpayers Federation on the “Human Rights” Commission’s Lynch List?

After finally receiving some – but possibly not all – documents from a filed Access to Information & Privacy (ATIP) request by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission (CHRC) reacted strangely upon inquiring about where various receipts for Chief Commissar Jennifer Lynch are.
Contacting the CHRC’s ATIP Coordinator , the folks at [...]

October 23, 2009 Tags: Access to Information, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, CTF, Human Rights Commission, Jennifer Lynch Posted in: Blog Content 4 Comments