Today the personal income tax accounts for almost half of federal revenues.
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October 6, 2016
12:06PM
Ottawa has hiked taxes on Canada’s most skilled and educated workers.
September 21, 2016
11:42AM
From 2003/04 to 2015/16, Ontario program spending grew at an average annual rate of 4.7 per cent.
September 1, 2016
1:14PM
The new Canada Child Benefit program, and the expansion of the CPP, may hurt middle-income Canadians.
June 23, 2016
3:16PM
In the past decade, four provincial governments pushing for electoral reform put the question to the people.
March 14, 2016
11:04AM
Unions become more powerful from a ban on replacements.
February 23, 2016
9:42AM
These voluntary relationships clearly benefit the participants, and perhaps that is why the strident opponents resort to hyperbole and fear-mongering.
December 11, 2015
10:23AM
The issue of whether the new federal government requires explicit approval of the electorate via a referendum to change the way parliamentarians and our federal government is elected is gaining a surprising amount of attention.
November 9, 2015
9:05AM
The Liberal campaign platform has some laudable goals. However, one of the worrying policy initiatives, and one that is hopefully de-prioritized, is the raising of the top marginal federal tax rate on personal income from 29 to 33 per cent.
November 13, 2014
10:00AM
After seven years of budget deficits and over $160 billion in new debt, the federal government confirmed in its financial update Wednesday that it expects to record a surplus next year.