Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We appreciate the opportunity to present to the committee on this important issue. We've got five minutes. I'll start by referring to the recent report from Statistics Canada that analyzed income inequality, highlighting the status of the 1%. I'll quot

Finance committee  There's no question that the best possible thing for government revenues is more rich people. That's absolutely correct.

Finance committee  If I can pick up on—

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to take a moment to thank the committee for providing the Canadian Taxpayers Federation with the opportunity to appear before you today. I would also like to thank the committee very much for this important discussion of how competition in infr

Transport committee  The Canadian Taxpayers Federation takes a slightly harder line than our colleagues do. We believe that the federal government's involvement in funding municipal infrastructure has been bad for the country. The United States has been held up as an example. Since the financial me

Transport committee  We stand for lower taxes, less waste, and accountable government.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank you all for allowing me to join you today. I'd also like to thank Brent Rathgeber for proposing Bill C-461. Mr. Rathgeber has shown character and courage in standing up for his beliefs and to his caucus when he has nothing to gain poli

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, and if it were up to us to write the legislation, that threshold would be $100,000. We don't believe that Parliament should be exempt; we don't believe that political staff should be exempt. We believe it should be a straight $100,000 threshold for all federal government emp

Information & Ethics committee  The approach of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is completely different from that of my friend Mr. Taylor’s organization. He called on other Conservatives to support this bill, but on our side, we are not a Conservative organization. We have no political affiliation. As for CBC

Information & Ethics committee  We poll our supporters on a regular basis. We deal with issues such as government legislation, marijuana and the Senate. In western Canada, some want to elect the Senate and others want to abolish it. Under those conditions, it is hard for us to always take a stand. That said, so

Information & Ethics committee  Our principal interest here is to.... The CBC/Radio-Canada issue is not our main concern, given our mandate. The issues related to the Access to Information Act are uniquely specialized. Mr. Rathgeber is a lawyer. He is very familiar with those issues. According to him, the word

Information & Ethics committee  We have found it offensive that the CBC would go all the way to the Federal Court of Appeal in its disputes with the Information Commissioner in the past. We were gratified when the Information Commissioner's position was upheld in the Federal Court of Canada and in the Federal C

Information & Ethics committee  We believe that journalistic sources should be protected. We've had some discussions with Mr. Rathgeber about it, and we believe he's reflected and investigated the issue carefully. But I think it behooves the committee to get expert advice and satisfy themselves that, whatever a

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  We'll be very critical of this bill if it comes out with that. You're talking about people earning a considerable amount, and there will be fewer than 2,000 out of 212,000 in the core public service.