Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Most Recent Articles by Canadian Taxpayers Federation:
Gas tax relief temporarily makes life more affordable
April 16, 2026
These important reforms will ensure part-time school board trustees are no longer giving themselves oversized paycheques and throwing around taxpayer dollars on waste
Carney needs to immediately make life more affordable by ending all carbon taxes, cutting fuel taxes and eliminating tax-on;-tax
MP pay increased between $7,900 and $15,800
April 7, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney told Canadians to brace for ‘sacrifices’ so it’s particularly insulting that his government just rubber-stamped another pay raise for politicians;
Taxes from multiple levels of government account for about half of the price of alcohol;
Prime Minister Mark Carney should listen to Canadians and cancel the MP pay raise;
Cancel the alcohol tax and politician pay hike
March 30, 2026
How can MPs take another pay raise off the backs of their struggling constituents and still sleep at night?
Scrap carbon taxes and cut gas taxes to ease pump prices
March 19, 2026
“Politicians should immediately make life more affordable and scrap all carbon taxes, cut fuel taxes and eliminate the tax-on-tax,”;
Defund the CBC
March 18, 2026
Let’s look at who’s running this rounding-error-ratings, taxpayer-funded media corporation
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation we will continue to fight Crown corporation executives that want to keep their pay hidden from the people who are paying the bills;
Half of Canadians say services have got worse since 2016, despite the massive increase in federal bureaucracy, according to the poll;
Carbon taxes punishing Canadian businesses and workers
March 7, 2026
This is a wake-up call to Smith and Carney: It’s time to scrap carbon taxes completely;
Tax and MP pay hikes one month away
March 2, 2026
Carney’s alcohol tax hike will make life more expensive and make it harder for Canadian restaurants, breweries and pubs to survive;
Main Estimates show Carney hiking spending again
February 27, 2026
After a decade of out-of-control spending, finding savings in every area of the budget should be like finding water in the ocean;
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Ontario’s auditor general needs to launch a full investigation into the SmartTrack debacle and figure out who is responsible for wasting a nearly $100 million in taxpayer dollars;
Canadians support MP Dawson rejecting politician pay raise
February 24, 2026
“Prime Minister Mark Carney told Canadians to brace for ‘sacrifices,’ so the least politicians can do is stop stuffing their own wallets with more tax dollars"
Cost of federal bureaucracy up 80 per cent in 10 years: PBO
February 17, 2026
More government bureaucrats taking more money from taxpayers hasn’t resulted in better services for Canadians;
POLL: Canadians support cutting governor general’s salary
February 17, 2026
The governor general’s platinum pay and perks should’ve been reined in a long time ago;
Feds announce another alcohol tax hike
February 13, 2026
“If politicians think Canadians aren’t paying enough tax, they should at least have the spine to vote on the tax increase.”
MP Dawson shows leadership by rejecting pay raise
February 10, 2026
Leger polling shows 79 per cent of Canadians opposed the MP pay raise in 2025, 80 per cent opposed it in 2024, 80 per cent opposed it in 2023 and 79 per cent opposed MP pay raises in 2022;
Ottawa blocks details of failed Cape Breton pilot project
February 10, 2026
Premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Manitoba, Ontario, Northwest Territories, Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick all say their provinces will not participate in the program because it is unlikely to make Canadians safer;
Stop bailing out Canada Post
February 9, 2026
The government is broke and taxpayers can’t afford to bailout every Crown corporation that goes to Ottawa begging for more money;
Canadians forced Ottawa to retreat from its wildly unrealistic plan to ban all new gas and diesel vehicle sales in less than a decade, Now Mark Carney is using less transparent subsidies and regulations to impose a plan that’s almost as unrealistic;
MPs getting another big pay hike this year
February 3, 2026
Canadians need MPs who will be champions for taxpayers and demand an end to these pay raises, because when politicians pad their pockets, bureaucrats demand more money too;
Executive bonuses cost taxpayers $201 million last year
January 28, 2026
Bonuses are supposed to be for doing a good job, but bureaucrats are handing them out like participation ribbons
GST relief right idea but wrong execution
January 26, 2026
Cutting taxes is the right idea, but Canadians need more from the government than a bigger GST credit;
Toronto police right to resist Carney’s gun grab: Taxpayers
January 22, 2026
Now, Ford needs to stand up for taxpayers and pass legislation to stop the gun confiscation like Saskatchewan and Alberta;
The government needs to focus on the real problem of criminals and illegal guns not going after licensed firearm owners
Federal hidden carbon tax costs seven cents per litre of gas in 2026
January 15, 2026
“Canada’s own emissions are not large enough to materially impact climate change;”
Report: Shrinking the bloated federal bureaucracy
January 12, 2026
A Leger poll found that 54 per cent of Canadians want the federal government to reduce the size and cost of its bureaucracy;