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Outrageous Canadian Political Facts

In 1984, New Zealand voters booted a left-leaning conservative government and brought in a free-market-oriented labour government. Immediately, finance minister Sir Roger Douglas began to implement some of the most important reforms in any country of the 20th century.

Sir Roger floated the currency, revoked all farm subsidies, abolished all import tariffs, and privatized 60% of state-owned companies. He also fired 55% of the government workforce and placed the central bank chairman on a performance contract, revoked capital gains and inheritance taxes, and refused to print money to save reckless banks and inefficient companies from bankruptcy.

The results have been simply astounding. New Zealand now has one of the lowest inflation rates in the world, nine consecutive years of budget surpluses, unemployment rates cut in half, and a resilient, entrepreneurial economy that soared 5.8% in 2002.

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Do you pay too much? Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Declaration of Independence and Petition for Western Separation!

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DeTax Canada

Taxes, Taxes, Taxes: Increases Since The Liberals Took Office.

The Liberal Red Book: Top 10 Liberal Broken Promises.

MP's Pension Plans: Some interesting material that your government doesn't want you to know.

The Senate: How about those Senators, eh!

Promises, Promises: See a 1951 advertisement from the Canadian Government on how you will be protected in your old age.

Politics And The Environment: Greenpeace investigates.

Wiggle On Home

Taxes, Taxes, Taxes

The recent federal budget shows that the Liberals have increased tax revenues by more than $24.2 billion since taking office. This means that every taxpayer has had to shell out an additional $1800 per year in hidden or obvious taxes.

GST - money collected has increased by $1.8 billion.

CORPORATE TAXES - a $6.8 billion increase.

PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Canadian Taxpayers are giving this government $15.1 billion more than they gave previous governments.

USER FEES - are up by more than $500 million.

FEDERAL WASTE - Porkers At The Trough.

CANADA PENSION PLAN - a 70% hike in premiums. This will allow you to receive a maximum of $8,800 per year. If you had been allowed to invest these funds into an RRSP for 30 years, with only a 6% return, you would have $275,000 on your retirement. If you were an MP, you would be getting $60,000 per year instead of a paltry $8,800. Aren't you outraged yet?

Liberal Red Book

Top 10 Liberal Broken Promises.

1. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs (Red book, Chapter 1) - Canada currently has 1.4 million unemployed, half a million not looking for work, youth unemployment at 18%, and one in every four Canadians worried about their jobs.

2. Preserving and Protecting Universal Medicare (Red book, p.74) - By 1998/99 the Liberals will have cut $7 billion in social transfers to the provinces.

3. Scrap, Kill, and Abolish the GST - Prime Minister Chretien and Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps on the campaign trail made this promise. The Liberals will have spent $931 million to bury the hated tax in Atlantic Canada.

4. Restore faith in Government (Red Book, p.92) - Sheila Copps, David Collenette, Jean Boyle, Michael Dupuy - 'nuff said.

5. Stable Multiyear Funding for the CBC (Red Book, p.89) - The Liberals cut $377 million from the CBC - a third of the public broadcaster's budget.

6. Renegotiate NAFTA (Red Book p.24) - Two months after taking power, Chretien signed NAFTA without any changes.

7. A Code of Conduct for Politicians (Red Book, p.95) - no new code and the Prime Minister uses the secret Ministerial guidelines only when convenient.

8. Appointments Based on Competence (Red Book p.92) - The Governor General, the Ambassadors to Isreal and Britain, the Chairman of Canada Post, and the last 19 Senators are all partisan Liberal patronage appointments.

9. More Free Votes (Red Book p.92) - out of more than 200 government bills in three years, the Prime minister has allowed one free vote on government legislation. The Liberal government has restricted debate on more than 20 occasions.

10. Eliminate Trade Barriers (Red Book p.22) - Internal trade barriers continue to cost the economy $6 - $10 billion a year.

MP's Pension Plans

What A Friend They Have In Taxes!

The Top Ten

Upon retirement from office, assuming these MP's live only to 75 years, this is what they will receive.

1: Jean Charest, PC: $4,525,537.00

2: Brian Tobin, LIB: $3,907,507.00

3: David Dingwall, LIB: $3,660,930.00

4: Svend Robinson, NDP: $3,556,546.00

5: Bill Blaikie, NDP: $3,380,406.00

6: Sergio Marchi, LIB: $3,105,143.00

7: John Nunziata, LIB: $2,734,328.00

8: Sheila Copps, LIB: $2,551,223.00

9: Andre Ouellet, LIB: $2,636,953.00

10: Don Boudria, LIB: $2,152,672.00

Eighty-seven other MPs, including Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard and NDP boss Audrey Mclaughlin, qualify for this gilded pension plan that could cost taxpayers in excess of $124,076,247.00

THE EXCEPTIONS: Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta, has legislated that his cabinet must make arrangements for their own pensions, just like every Canadian citizen does. Pensions will no longer be funded by the taxpayers. He and his colleagues must purchase R.R.S.P.'s and worry about whether Paul Martin will be taxing pensions in future budgets.

Ralph Klein's government is unique in that he started budget cuts from the top, getting MLA's off the welfare rolls. He abolished his clothing and car allowance and took a personal salary cut of 5%. Pensions were abolished for everyone who became an MLA after 1989. Is there any reason why we can't expect our federal politicians to get off Canada's welfare system and start looking after themselves?

Mike Harris has done the same in Ontario. He has ended the tax-free allowance scheme, so that MP's get a flat salary just like regular working folk, cut their salaries, and scrapped the pension plan. Just like in Alberta, Ontario MP's have to make their own pension arrangements. In fact, Harris has gone a step further than anyone else, as he has also cut the NUMBER of MP's by more than two dozen! That alone is saving taxpayers millions of dollars a year.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Write to your Premier, MP and Prime Minister asking if there is any reason why they cannot be responsible for their own pension plans like ordinary citizens have to. In a time when social programs are being targeted for spending cuts, then it is time that our elected Members of Parliament got off the welfare rolls.

For information on particular provincial and federal policies contact The Fraser Institute , an independent Canadian economic and social research and educational organization.

ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT: The Fraser Institute conducts independent study and offers proposals for the restructuring of the activities of federal, provincial, territorial, and local governments that will result in a reduction in the cost of government per unit cost of service delivered. For more information contact: The Centre for Economy in Government - The Fraser Institute - 626 Bute Street, 2nd Floor - Vancouver, B.C., V6E 3M1 - Fax (604) 688-8539

The Senate

This page is for those citizens who are concerned that their senators might be overabundant, overpaid and inefficient. Where does $50 million a year go?

Pigs are such loving, intelligent little persons, who are treated abysmally by humans, that it is a shame to compare them to senators.

Here's what Canada's prime oinkers get:

THE SALARY - A basic $70,000.00 per year and an extra $150.00 for every day they show up in the senate. This is an incentive for them to actually be there, rather than retiring to Mexico on the generous salary and expense account.

THE JOB: - The Senate meets on average for 100 days a year. Senators are allowed to miss 21 days without losing any salary.

THE EXTRAS - * Research Grants (for what?) $30,000.00 per year. * Office Budget $20,000.00 per year. * Tax Free Expense Allowance $10,100.00 * Free Business Class flights for Senators and their families, as many as 52 return-trip flights a year. * Free telephone calls and faxes, and also free postage, at home as well as office. * Free Gym privileges, private equipment and instructors. * Subsidized (that means REALLY CHEAP!) haircuts, dry cleaning, furniture, limousine rides above Base Salaries.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Write! Write! Write! to every newspaper and politician. Get Canada's Senators off the elite welfare roll! It is a disgrace to Canada that we could hire ten people who actually want to work for the same price our Senators get in salary and perks. Our Senate should be cut to one tenth its size so it would be a fair representation of population as well as less costly. Canada might be better off if it was abolished altogether.

PHONE A SENATOR: (toll-free) 1-800-267-7362

SOME RECOMMENDED READING:

1. January, 1995 - The Reader's Digest - "Club Senate".

2. On The Take by Stevie Cameron, a book which describes the crime, corruption and greed in the Mulroney years.

3. Our Home Our Native Land? by Mel Smith, covers some shocking facts about the land claims settlements. Very well researched and should be part of every history curriculum.

4. 

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