Reading Time: 3 minutes Uses inflation to covertly increase its tax take every year on April 1
Author: Franco Terrazzano
Franco Terrazzano is Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. He joined the CTF after working as an economic policy analyst with the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and as a fellow with the Canadian Constitution Foundation. Franco has produced multiple reports and op-eds on the costs associated with tax increases, inefficient government and the unintended consequences of public policies.
Franco completed his Master of Public Policy and Bachelor of Arts (Economics) degrees at the University of Calgary.
Trudeau giving Quebec a special deal on carbon taxes
Reading Time: 3 minutes Proves that Ottawa’s carbon tax is all about politics, not the environment
Nothing prudent about Freeland’s fiscal update
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa’s culture of frivolous spending and never-ending deficits needs to end
Alberta needs to protect taxpayers from tax hikes at home
Reading Time: 3 minutes Expand the Taxpayer Protection Act to stop future governments from imposing a carbon tax
Trudeau’s carbon tax punishes us for heating our homes
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you can’t afford this carbon tax punishment, send your heating bills to your MP
Recession for who? Not government employees
Reading Time: 3 minutes Federal bureaucrats, who weathered the pandemic in comfort, are now asking for a 14 per cent pay raise
Trudeau deliberately choosing to lower Canadians’ living standards
Reading Time: 3 minutes The feds should be cutting taxes, not raising them
Trudeau shouldn’t be raising payroll taxes
Reading Time: 3 minutes The total payroll tax bill for each middle-class worker increased by $818 this year alone
Trudeau government not serious about making life more affordable
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hard-working, struggling Canadians need meaningful tax relief
Trudeau’s luxury tax will harm blue-collar workers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian workers will pay the price of this silly political posturing