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Ottawa has long troubled history of writing cheques

The auditor general found that $4.6 billion in payments for programs such as CERB were made to individuals who were ineligible.


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Handouts are far costlier than emission tax revenues to fund reductions in other tax rates.


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The plan doesn’t account for job losses, lower wages and reduced investment when calculating the impacts of the carbon tax on Canadian households.


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Eighty-one per cent of middle-class families in Canada now pay higher income taxes.


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The two biggest automatic stabilizers from Ottawa are income taxes and employment insurance payments.


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We accord “stakeholders” special respect, when in many cases we should watch our wallets.


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Kinder Morgan stopped all “non-essential spending” on the $7.4 billion project due to regulatory, legal and political barriers.


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The PBO projects a cumulative federal deficit of $85.6 billion over the next five years.