Information & Ethics committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. We appreciate the opportunity to speak on behalf of our 70,000 supporters. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is the largest and oldest national not-for-profit, non-partisan taxpayers advocacy group. We will be circulating our re

Finance committee  We haven't studied the proposal in any detail. We keep our hands full with what the government is doing with spending and taxing and the upcoming budget. Generally speaking, we believe there are serious problems with the world financial system. We believe that many of the world

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, I'm here representing 70,000 supporters from across Canada. We are Canada's largest and oldest taxpayer advocacy organization, proudly non-partisan, and funded solely by voluntary contributio

Transport committee  Yes, entitled “National Public Transit Strategy”, so--

Transport committee  We have no quarrel with Quebec's jurisdiction over transit, but we don't submit that it's unique. We think that provinces have jurisdiction over transit. Perhaps if Parliament stopped collecting a heinous excise tax on gasoline, the provinces could go and tax it, fund away, and d

Transport committee  Suzanne Blais-Grenier, former member for Rosemont, and André Bissonnette, member for Saint-Jean in the 1980s.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  At the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we do not buy into the concept of redistribution of wealth as something that is a public good. We believe that wealth is earned and that taxes are levied to provide public services to the public, so any element of redistribution of wealth is

Transport committee  Well, on areas of their own jurisdiction, certainly. The fact is that the federal government doesn't have jurisdiction in road building or transit building, and yet it levies taxes on transportation fuels. This has created this resentment in city governments, and with provincia

Transport committee  Our recommendation is that the federal government scrap the gas tax and that the provinces and the cities assume that responsibility. As a result, they would make the money back and have taxation power.

Transport committee  You are talking about a rural municipality. What does “rural” mean? Are we talking about Rivière-du-Loup or—

Transport committee  Okay.

Transport committee  That depends. If it has to do with international ports, like the port of Vancouver—

Transport committee  The idea of a federal government operating a bridge from one shore of Canadian soil to the other doesn't make any logical sense. That bridge connects to a city roadway network and a provincial roadway network that's 100% designed, built, and maintained by Quebec. Am I not correct