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Finance committee  Yes, we do.

November 6th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  In government pension plans, when you look at accrual rates, the 2% accrual rate is common. Many municipal plans permit spiking. They use sometimes as few as the last three years of earnings, so you have what they call a sprint to the finish line where you get 50 police officer

November 6th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  It's tough to generalize, but certainly with regard to contributions, federal government employees have an advantage, and it's an unfair advantage. We believe that wage and benefit structures should be made competitive with the rest of us who don't work for the government.

November 6th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  The dangers of expanding CPP is what you saw with the Caisse de dépôt in the financial meltdown. They lost a third of the wealth of retired Quebecers because it's a compelled government savings program with a single investor, essentially. Instead of having many investors investin

November 6th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  Yes, and it's a spending problem that persists. I won't start talking about pork-barrelling...oh sure, I'll talk about pork-barrelling. ACOA and FedNor, if you look at the long-term track record of your corporate welfare organizations, it's not a good one. ACOA wrote off somethin

November 6th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  Working Canadians and their employers were gouged to the tune of $57 billion to create a fund for a storm like the one we experienced, and the money wasn't there just when we needed lower payroll taxes to stimulate the economy and get people back to work. Because the money had be

November 6th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  We have about 75,000 supporters. We note that only about 12% of Canadians outside of government now have a defined benefit pension plan. We believe that salaries, benefits, and retirement savings should be competitive for government. The government has to hire qualified staff

November 6th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  Yes, and let's face it. In some parts of Canada the government is the highest paying employer in the region. In other parts of Canada the government is scraping to find employees, because the economy is hot and they can't pay enough. I think government has to be more flexible a

November 6th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  It is our long-standing position that parliamentarians need to continue to set their own salaries and make these decisions, because ultimately, they are accountable for the decisions. We survey our members on a regular basis in this regard, and our supporters, whom we survey, con

November 6th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  Mr. Chairman, we appreciate the invitation of the committee to appear today. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is Canada's largest taxpayer advocacy group, with over 70,000 supporters from coast to coast, and 22 years of history advocating for less government, lower taxes, and

November 6th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  —but I think that if you're talking about whether something is going to pass a constitutional test or whether....

October 25th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

October 25th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  Again, this is down into the weeds of drafting—

October 25th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  I believe I read published reports about it, but I'm not a labour practitioner and I don't have any expert knowledge to offer.

October 25th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think you're correct, sir, in observing that our interest as the Taxpayers Federation is more general than that of the other parties around the table. We take a principled stance against boutique tax credits—special writeoffs for children's hockey, polit

October 25th, 2012Committee meeting

Gregory Thomas