By Gord Wiebe
Apr 15, 2021 7:31 AM
On April 19, Canada’s Finance Minister will deliver a budget for the first time in two years; and, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is worried. Whatever Chrystia Freeland plans, the CTF says this much is certain, the amount of red ink will surge past any other deficit records in Canada’s modern history. The federation says the most recent estimate projects the deficit for 2020 will reach $360 billion. The Federation says the Liberal government spent $271 billion in 2020 in pandemic-related measures alone.
According to CTF, the temporary spending measures must be wound down and the government needs to avoid implementing expensive new permanent programs.
With their new climate plan, O’Toole’s Conservatives are simply retreating to a new hill, Max Fawcett writes. Photo via Erin O Toole / Flickr
At long last, after years of fudging and filibustering, the Conservative Party of Canada has a climate plan. And if the early returns are any indication, it might be the worst of both worlds a policy that will simultaneously infuriate many of the party’s most fervent supporters and underwhelm Canadian voters who care about climate change.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which had been in lockstep with federal Conservatives on their shared opposition to the Trudeau government’s carbon tax and rebate, let party leader Erin O’Toole have it with both barrels. “It’s outrageous that O’Toole is now planning to hammer Canadians with higher fuel bills through his very own carbon tax,” said Franco Terrazzano, the CTF’s Alberta director. “When he was running for leader, O’Toole pledged to taxpayers that he would fight carb
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