TORONTO, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is reminding Ontarians that tomorrow, on January 1, 2017, Ontario’s new cap and trade carbon tax comes into effect. The tax is being applied to all businesses and natural gas distributors with emissions of 25,000 tonnes or more, it will be applied to fuel suppliers that sell more than 200 litres of fuel per year, and it will be applied to electricity importers.
The Ontario government’s cap and trade scheme is already a failure, and it hasn’t even started yet.
On Wednesday November 30, the Auditor General released her annual report, in which she slammed the Ontario government’s cap and trade tax, which is set to take effect January 1st.
The Auditor General zeroed in on a series of major flaws with cap and trade – the premier’s showpiece legislation. She highlighted the policy’s inability to achieve emission reduction targets, that cap and trade would send billions out of the province, and that there is a total lack of transparency.
This column was published in in the Financial Post.
For a time it was fashionable to buy a star in the sky and name it after a love interest, a new baby or a recently deceased loved one. Could anything be more romantic or more sentimental?
It turns out that the companies that take money from consumers for “naming stars” are the only ones who actually recognize the name. The practice is considered by many to be a kind of scam that profits off of the idealism of consumers. Money for a star name is just money for nothing.
Following the election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of our southern neighbour, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne commented that she was “shocked” by the result, and that the election of Mr. Trump could be a “danger to the economy of both of our countries.”
There’s a well-known anecdote about a boiling frog, which describes how if a frog is thrown into boiling water, it will jump out. But if the frog is put in cold water that is slowly brought to a boil, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.
Today the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) called on the Ontario government to provide transparency about the new seven year deal that will see the province buying hydroelectric power from Quebec. Both provinces have refused to disclose the price at which the electricity will be purchased.
Today the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) called on the Ontario government to provide a full accounting of how $11.7 million in taxpayer money that was spent on consultants and advertising for the Ontario Electricity Support Program.
TORONTO, ON: Today the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) launched a billboard, website and media campaign that is aimed at telling Ontario politicians to “leave our energy bills alone.” The new campaign’s goal is to engage the public to take action on the cost of political interference in the electricity sector, and the costs of the Ontario government’s new cap-and-trade carbon tax that will take effect January 1, 2017.
Premier Kathleen Wynne is worried about what she calls "very bad actors" in Ontario.
While defending her government's new tax on home heating fuels and gasoline, the premier said that the new tax is necessary because Ontarians are "very bad actors in terms of our per capita emissions." That's right, the new tax on keeping your family warm in the winter and on your daily commute to work is because Ontarians are "bad actors."mirror.
After two leaked drafts and a taxpayer funded ad promoting it, the public now finally has details on Kathleen Wynne’s kooky climate change plan.
The money that the government’s cap and tax scheme squeezes out of Ontario manufacturing, out of consumers at the pumps, and out of your home heating bill, is being funnelled into Wynne’s $8.3 billion green spending plan.
Premier Wynne openly states that the government is planning on squeezing $1.9 billion out of Ontario. Help us put a stop to more taxes and higher bills!