CTF Releases Taxpayer-Friendly Provincial Election Platform 

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released a provincial election platform today; a document with taxpayer friendly initiatives for political parties to consider as they finish working on their upcoming provincial election platforms.

The taxpayer-friendly platform includes policy ideas on tax relief, spending, justice matters, environmental policy, accountability measures, health care, and the debt.

“We wanted to provide political parties with some constructive policy ideas that are taxpayer friendly,” said CTF Prairie Director Colin Craig. “From giving taxpayers the power to boot unaccountable politicians from office to a number of cost saving initiatives, there are plenty of ideas in the document to consider.”

Some of the highlights include:

Cooperative Curriculum - Partner with other provinces to share curriculum documents instead of having people working on similar material in each province.

Liberate Cabinet Documents – Current information laws require cabinet documents to be kept confidential for 20 years before the public has the right to see them. Reduce the period down to one year or less.

End Bracket Creep – Help protect taxpayers from inflation by indexing the tax system for inflation; a measure seven of ten provinces in Canada have already enacted.

Recall Legislation – Just like you can take back a new TV that doesn’t work, why not be able to return a politician that isn’t accountable? Join B.C. by passing “recall legislation” – a law that allows citizens to remove a politician from office if enough citizens in their riding sign a petition.

Province-wide “Giveaway Weekends” – Instead of coming up with new, expensive government-run environment programs, look at inexpensive ideas like holding giveaway weekends province-wide.


To view the entire platform - click here.