Finance committee  —when so many people lost their jobs—

Finance committee  —and many people maybe even lost their small business.

Finance committee  For the government to raise the carbon tax—

Finance committee  The government should not have raised carbon taxes and payroll taxes. If all that drives you to drink, the government is also taking more money from you every time you go get that bottle of Pinot to enjoy with your—

Finance committee  What I'm so concerned about are so many Canadians who, in the private sector, just took it on the chin for two-plus years while the people who are supposed to be their representatives gave themselves pay raise after pay raise after pay raise, and not just that; they raised the ca

Finance committee  I'm glad you brought up—

Finance committee  We represent 235,000 Canadian taxpayers who support our mission to fight for lower taxes, less waste and more government accountability.

Finance committee  In a recent poll, 72% of Canadians said that they pay too much tax. If we want to encourage work, we need to stop punishing work. What we have seen is that, at the worst possible time, the government raised payroll taxes. If you're making $65,000 this year, then the government is

Finance committee  You’re going to hear from hundreds of individuals and groups asking for more money. My name is Franco Terrazzano. I’m with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, and I'm here on behalf of 235,000 Canadian taxpayers asking you to spend less. I'm here today to say no more spending $8

Finance committee  I think it's very important. We have to remember that even before the pandemic, in 2018 and 2019, the federal government was spending at all-time highs—and that's accounting for inflation and population growth. We're seeing a ton of wasteful spending. We saw the federal governme

Finance committee  The Parliamentary Budget Officer has done a partial analysis, and it could cost $756 million, but that's just a partial cost. That's only to reimburse gun owners. We have seen an analysis done by a professor at Simon Fraser University who says that the biggest cost hasn't even be

Finance committee  That's correct. We have a plan to phase out equalization over 20 years. Next year, some provinces would still get $19 billion. One of the key concerns.... I'm from Calgary. That's where I have lived over the last few years. It's just so unfair. I mean, really, how many more Albe

Finance committee  I have not seen that specific proposal, but we do hear from a many farmers and businesses that the additional taxes—carbon taxes, fuel taxes—are really a pain. We've put out an analysis that shows, depending on the province, that between 31% to 42% of the pump price comes through

Finance committee  You know, I've heard that thrown around sometimes, but it's really magic math to think that the government is going to hammer us with a tax and then somehow make people better off. The truth of the matter is that the carbon tax is causing a ton of pain, and so are booze taxes and

Finance committee  Absolutely. We have to remember—and this is what I also noted in the full budget submission—that you could balance the federal budget in 2023-24 simply by going back to prepandemic spending of a few years ago, which was already at an all-time high. In 2018-19, you had the federal