The Trudeau government plans to raise a whole host of taxes in 2025. Pictured: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo Credit: Justin Trudeau/X.  New year, same plan from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: take more money from Canadians. In 2025, Trudeau will again take more money out of the pockets of Canadians through higher payroll taxes, while […]

A taxpayer champion could make massive cuts and barely anyone would notice. Pictured: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo Credit: Justin Trudeau/X.  Dumb government spending doesn’t stop at the 49th parallel.  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced the creation of a Department of Government Efficiency, with a mandate to “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure […]

There would be 72,491 fewer federal paper pushers had Trudeau kept growth in the bureaucracy in line with population growth. Pictured: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo Credit: Justin Trudeau/X.  Taxpayers know we’re paying for too many paper pushers in the federal government. A Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shows a plurality of […]

Bureaucrats barely meet even half of their performance targets – targets they set for themselves. Pictured: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo Credit: Justin Trudeau/X.  Bureaucrats love to think of themselves as “public servants,” but who is really serving who around here? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added another 10,525 bureaucrats to the taxpayer payroll last year. Since becoming […]

Essentially, Trudeau is getting unelected bureaucrats to impose tax hikes on Canadians. Pictured: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo Credit: Justin Trudeau/X.  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s capital gains tax hike is full of pain, but free of democracy. Trudeau has every intention of ramming through the hike without a vote in Parliament. The capital gains tax […]

Trudeau’s problem isn’t that Canadians don’t know what his government is doing. His problem is Canadians know exactly what his government is doing and don’t support it. Pictured: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. Photo Credit: PMO.   You can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monica, but it’s still a […]

The Trudeau government doesn’t need an expensive get-away in Montreal to figure out how to make life more affordable. There’s a simple solution: stop taking so much money from Canadians. Photo Credit: Reuters/Carlos Osorio.   Figuring out how to make life more affordable for Canadians shouldn’t be like unravelling Einstein’s theory of relativity.  If Prime […]

The federal government increased taxes on alcohol by 6.3 per cent for 2023. Photo credit: The Canadian Press/Chris Young   With sky-high inflation, climbing interest rates and carbon tax hikes, you could be forgiven for drinking. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rubbing margarita salt in the wound by using high inflation to binge on […]

Photo credit: Twitter/Chrystia Freeland   The federal government is already on track to blow its budget by $20 billion. That’s astonishing when we’re only about halfway through the budget year. But here’s the most amazing part: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland called her fiscal update “prudent.” Freeland said the government would spend $452.3 billion in April’s budget. Now […]

Bureaucrats didn’t financially suffer during the pandemic. They benefited. Now they want more. And if taxpayers don’t pony up, bureaucrats won’t show up for work.     Different people experience things differently. The pandemic exposed a specific divide. Private-sector workers missed paycheques. Small business owners worried their savings wouldn’t keep the lights on. Meanwhile, federal bureaucrats […]