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February 24, 2021 - 7:00 AM Expense claims and credit card receipts incurred by senior bureaucrats should be posted online to prevent wasteful spending, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says. “If you’re some bureaucrat and you’ve got the taxpayers’ credit card in your hand, are you really going to buy a $100 gift certificate at the local liquor store on it, when you know it’s going to be posted on the internet?” Kris Sims, the B.C. director for the federation said. “I doubt it.” She was reacting to a series of articles published after months of research by Kamloops This Week reporter Jessica Wallace detailing huge credit card spending by Sukh Gill over his last five years as CAO of the Thompson Nicola Regional District.
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Premier Jason Kenney used to talk a big game about protecting the public purse from business interests. But since heâs become premier, the United Conservative government has been setting aside buckets of cash for hand-picked businesses and sectors, which could cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Finance Minister Travis Toews will be releasing the 2021 budget on Feb. 25 and itâs going to be covered top-to-bottom in red ink. The provincial government may soon be tempted to raise taxes to cover its corporate welfare spending. Thatâs wrong.
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Alberta’s latest case against the federal government began in Alberta’s Court of Appeal on Monday, with the province arguing Ottawa overstepped its jurisdiction when it implemented a new federal assessment law it says is unconstitutional.
At the heart of the case is the Impact Assessment Act, formerly Bill C-69, which allows the federal government to consider the impacts of new resource projects on issues such as climate change. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney routinely criticizes the legislation, which the province says is a “Trojan Horse” that attempts to override provincial powers through a back door, thus eroding control over who has the final regulatory say over natural re