Reading Time: 3 minutes The Liberal’s Great Supercluster Screw-up just another drain on Canadian taxpayers
Tag: Corporate welfare
Courting Amazon: the ends don’t always justify the means
Reading Time: 3 minutes Incentive packages often include tax breaks on property, income or permit exemptions – and taxpayers pay the freight
Levelling the playing field for newspapers in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian newspaper publishers asked for federal help only after failing to get changes in taxation, copyright and other areas that would level the playing field
Beware of politicians bearing (election) gifts
Reading Time: 3 minutes Candidates tie themselves in knots dangling a return to the good old days. Unfortunately, the past doesn’t offer any solutions to our problems
Ottawa’s ‘innovation budget’ unlikely to spark innovation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Handing out taxpayer money in corporate welfare takes resources away from other areas that could be the source of future innovation
New Brunswick HST increase outweighs spending cuts five to one
Reading Time: 4 minutes Raising taxes to pay for more spending isn’t working; new jobs aren’t being created and subsidies to add workers can’t be sustained
We have to stop throwing public money at corporate Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost inevitably, we don’t get value from taxpayer-funded ventures
Electric cars still not ready for prime time
Reading Time: 4 minutes Electric cars are nothing but taxpayer subsidized toys for the one percenters
Quebec maple syrup cartel finds itself in a sticky situation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Its attempt to maintain high prices is leading to more international competition
The sobering reality behind business incentives
Reading Time: 3 minutes Being out-gunned in the incentives game can carry a heavy cost