Business subsidies can also irritate our trading partners, threatening Canadian access to foreign markets including the U.S.
corporate welfare
May 15, 2018
2:01PM
November 3, 2017
1:44PM
For the “typical family” of four, the cost per billion dollars of assistance is $114.28.
August 4, 2017
12:56PM
Government support for national airplane producers can come at a great cost.
April 4, 2017
3:00AM
Queen’s Park’s policies have raised the cost of electricity to the point of bankrupting individuals and businesses.
February 24, 2017
3:00AM
By some estimates Ottawa gives $6 billion a year in support of business.
February 8, 2017
10:00AM
The federal government will provide Bombardier, a Canadian aerospace company, with interest-free loans totalling $372.5 million.
October 27, 2016
8:25AM
Ontario had to write-off $1 billion of taxpayer money from the General Motors/Chrysler bailout.
August 25, 2016
12:56PM
Ontario and Michigan may fund corporate welfare on both sides of the border.
May 31, 2014
2:00AM
Question: If someone made $62,000 last year, had $187,000 in their bank account, and yet sought a $5,360 subsidy from government, what would the common sense response be?
May 15, 2014
2:00AM
Ever wonder how Canada's net federal debt reached $671 billion by 2013? Or how net provincial debt among the provinces ended up at $509 billion that same year? Wonder no more. It's partially due to massive subsidies to corporations, government businesses and even consumers that over three decades amounted to $684 billion.