Poll shows Canadians want to shrink bureaucracy

From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation released Leger polling showing a plurality of Canadians want to reduce the number of federal government employees.

“The poll shows taxpayers know they’re paying for too many federal paper pushers and want Ottawa to shrink the bureaucracy,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “Canadians can’t afford to keep bankrolling a bloated federal bureaucracy.”

Since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to power in 2015, Ottawa added 108,793 new federal government employees – an increase of 42 per cent.

The Leger poll asked Canadians what they think should happen to the size of the federal bureaucracy. The results of the poll show:

47 per cent want to reduce number of federal employees
29 per cent want to maintain the number of federal employees
Seven per cent want to increase the number of federal employees
17 per cent don’t know

Among those who are decided on the issue, 56 per cent of Canadians want to reduce the number of federal government employees.

When breaking the results down by political party vote intentions, the poll shows:

71 per cent of Conservative voters want to reduce the number of federal employees
51 per cent of Bloc voters want to reduce the number of federal employees
42 per cent of Green voters want to reduce the number of federal employees
36 per cent of Liberal voters want to reduce the number of federal employees
26 per cent of NDP voters want to reduce the number of federal employees

“Taxpayers paid for tens of thousands of extra bureaucrats, more than one million pay raises and hundreds of millions in bonuses in recent years and the government still can’t deliver good services,” Terrazzano said. “Canadians can’t afford to pay higher taxes and the government is up to its eyeballs in debt, so it’s time for Ottawa to take air out of its ballooning bureaucracy.”

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Taxpayers Federation demands government cancel automatic beer tax hike

Published on March 8, 2025

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By Carson Binda

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the federal government to cancel the automatic tax hike on beer, wine and spirits scheduled for April 1 and end the alcohol escalator tax for good.

“Canadian businesses and job creators like restaurants and breweries can’t afford a tax hike from the feds right now,” said Carson Binda, British Columbia Director for the CTF. “With an emerging tariff war, businesses need tax cuts, not undemocratic, automatic tax hikes from Ottawa that make it even harder to keep the doors open.”

The escalator tax was brought in by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2017. It automatically increases the taxes on alcoholic beverages every year on April 1 without a vote in Parliament.

Alcohol taxes already make up about 50 per cent of the price of a drink when charges from all levels of government are included. The federal excise tax on alcohol is set to increase by two per cent on April 1. The hike will cost taxpayers about $40 million.

Since being imposed, the alcohol escalator tax has cost taxpayers more than $900 million, according to Beer Canada.

“Automatic tax hikes are undemocratic and wrong,” Binda said. “Instead of making life even harder for struggling small businesses, the government needs to end the automatic tax hikes on beer, wine and spirits.”

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Conservative MP calls potential Trudeau successor Mark Carney a ‘globalist’

Published on March 8, 2025

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From LifeSiteNews

By Anthony Murdoch

“In a room full of globalists, at World Economic Forum in Davos, Carney declared himself to be a European.”

A Canadian Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP had harsh words for Liberal Party leadership candidate Mark Carney, calling him a “globalist” who will “never” put Canada “first” and who is “Trudeau 2.0.”

“Carney wants to be the Prime Minister of Canada, but yet as recently as two years ago on the international stage, declared himself to be something other than Canadian,” CPC MP Michael Cooper said in a recent video post to his X account.

“In a room full of globalists, at World Economic Forum in Davos, Carney declared himself to be a European.”

Cooper shared a clip of Carney proudly boasting at the WEF meeting that he has “European” citizenship.

“Let that sink in for a moment. Carney wants to be the Prime Minister of Canada, the leader of our great country, yet two short years ago identified as a European,” Cooper said.

“Is that something that a proud Canadian would say? Are those the words of the leader who will put Canada first? I don’t think so.”

Cooper also said that Carney “moved his company to the U.S. and then LIED about it,” adding that this and his European comments mean he is “not in it for Canada.”

“Mark Carney is really Justin Trudeau’s 2.0 the same Mark Carney, who, by the way, has been an adviser to Justin Trudeau for years,” he said.

“In this challenging time, the last thing Canada needs is a self-described European globalist elitist.”

As reported by LifeSiteNews, Carney has, as Cooper mentioned, admitted he is an “elitist” and a “globalist.”

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and two other lesser-known candidates, former House leader Karina Gould and former Liberal MP Frank Baylis, are vying to replace Trudeau as leader.

In addition to ties to the World Economic Forum, Freeland and Carney have a history of promoting or endorsing anti-life and anti-family agendas, including abortion and LGBT-related efforts.

LifeSiteNews earlier this week published a report highlighting an exposé by investigative journalist Sam Cooper, who claims there is compelling evidence Carney is strongly influenced by an “elite network” of foreign actors including those with ties to communist China and the World Economic Forum.