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: , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content, Published  Comments Closed

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: , , , , ,   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: , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  4 Comments

Harper Government’s New Debt vs. Debt Repayments

Politicians in the current government are often caught appeasing deficit weary Canadians by assuring us that they paid down loads of debt before turning on the taps of “stimulus”.  Well how true is this claim?  Bunk.  At least according to you know, facts.
Below is a calculation by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, spelling out exactly how [...]

October 14, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  One Comment

National Film Board Busted by Taxpayer.com

A high-flying movie bureaucrat has been caught in the act through Access to Information & Privacy (ATIP) requests by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.  The request revealed that the top bureaucrat at the National Film Board (NFB) used taxpayers’ money loosely while traveling abroad for purposes that are potentially dubious to begin with.
NFB Commissioner and Chairperson [...]

October 13, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  One Comment

Senator’s Gold Plated Pension Busted by Taxpayers Federation

From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation:
$57,000/Year Golden Handshake for Senator Joan Cook
While Liberal Senator Joan Cook celebrated her 75th birthday, taxpayers were mourning that they are on the hook for her $57,000/year pension according to calculations by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).  Constitutionally forced to retire on her October 6th birthday, the Senator will no [...]

October 9, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  One Comment

Jeniffer Lynch Providing Receipts Would “Unreasonably Interfere” with the CHRC

So it seems that Jeniffer Lynch and her “Human Rights” thugs are not only above the law when it comes to censoring innocent Canadians for their opinions, but that they are also above basic government accountability as well.
In a post yesterday, I indicated that the CHRC was not able to provide receipts for Commissar Lynch’s [...]

September 23, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  4 Comments

Jennifer Lynch Not Keeping Receipts?

It would seem that Canada’s “human rights” czar, Chief Commissar Jennifer Lynch is not able to produce receipts for a few global junkets that she has taken, at least not within the normal timeline prescribed for Access to Information requests.  In letters dated September 21, the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission indicated that it cannot provide [...]

September 22, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  2 Comments

Busted! Giant Red Ball Funded by Taxpayers

Days ago, Luminato “artists” were paid big bucks – courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer – to inflate a giant red ball in Toronto.  Check out this video, where government funded hippies get ‘busted’.

*From taxpayerblog.com

June 19, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed

I Write the Platform: Where the PCPO Candidates Stand on Policy

Well, no I don’t write the platform, but here is a brief on where the leadership candidates for the Ontario Conservatives stand as per their responses to a survey from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.  Please note that Christine Elliot did not return a completed survey, but responded via a letter highlighting various policy proposals.  In [...]

June 9, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  2 Comments