The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the federal government to scrap its plan to increase the carbon tax, alcohol taxes and member of Parliament pay on April 1.
“The feds will make life more expensive with the April tax hikes,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF. “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shouldn’t be raising taxes when Canadians can’t afford gas or groceries.”
The federal carbon tax will increase to 14 cents per litre of gasoline and 12 cents per cubic metre of natural gas on April 1.
First passed in the 2017 federal budget, the alcohol escalator tax automatically increases excise taxes on beer, wine and spirits every year by the rate of inflation. Alcohol taxes will increase by 6.3 per cent on April 1.
MPs also take pay raises each year on April 1. The CTF estimates this year’s pay raise will range from an extra $5,100 for a backbench MP to an extra $10,200 for the prime minister, based on contract data published by the government of Canada. This will be the fourth MP pay raise since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“To add insult to injury, MPs will take another pay raise the same day they take more money from taxpayers’ wallets,” said Terrazzano. “Politicians don’t deserve a pay raise when they make life unaffordable with tax hikes and runaway spending.”
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This salary increase is absolutely disgusting and shows the voters where the MP’s focus is on – themselves. They have not earned this interest in any of the parties. I do no see Scot standing up to stop this. Singh creams about the high incomers in the private sector yet he accepts an unearned increase. Our government is in free fall and voters just accept this. I agree with the previous post that we need to attract better politicians and while salaries help I also believe voters must become vocal both at the election time as well as all year long. We can no longer afford to be complacent.
I’m not here to say whether our politicians are doing a good job. It’s clear from reading comments written in, that there is a general consensus that they’re not. How are we to attract the best candidates when they can make more in the private sector. A brief look at the District of Muskoka Sunshine list shows the Chief Executive Officer pulling down $215,000 of taxpayer money in 2021. Is lowering or capping politicians salaries going to draw the cream of the crop out of the private sector. I don’t think so, unless they’re rich already.
You are absolutely bloody hell right
This is like we are peasants and JT
Is king John in Robin Hood
Why do they get away with black inked
pages when there is an inquiry
It’s disgusting to find out our sons and
daughters cannot afford a house now a days
Or eat a regular meal, if they have time
And Tim’s cup shurk donuts smaller but higher price , I honestly don’t get it
And how the Liberal government gets away
With all this corruption, specially Freeland
What a joke , but again nobody can do anything about it, just like others
Oh i apologies for giving my friends the contract or let’s not hire a Canadian, let’s higher out of country and get a percentage off
Them , nobody will know . What is the law
In Canada, because it seems in the house
Of laughs / commends even when you get caught, you say oh didn’t realize and it won’t happen again
How can our politicians get another raise, when the nurses can only get 1% and our health care is in such bad state.
I’ve just signed the Petition.
If you want to sign against the MPs pay raises, there is a message from the Can. Taxpayers thus:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is about to take a $10,000 pay raise.
If you don’t think Trudeau deserves a $10,000 raise, then you can sign the PETITION to stop the politician pay hike by going to this website:
https://www.taxpayer.com/petitions/mps-need-to-cut-their-own-pay
On April 1, members of Parliament will take their fourth pay raise since the onset of COVID-19. This year’s pay raise will range from an extra $5,100 for a backbench MP to an extra $10,200 for Trudeau.
A backbencher currently collects a $189,500 salary. Ministers take home $279,900. Trudeau gets $379,000 from taxpayers. Do you think they should take thousands more from taxpayers when many Canadians are struggling to fill the fridge?
There is hope for us though in some of our politicians in Canada at least in N.S. and B.C.:-
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston recently recalled the provincial legislature to stop an automatic pay raise for his MLAs. Then Houston cut his own pay by $11,000. British Columbia MLAs also stopped their automatic pay increase. MPs need to do the right thing and stop their pay hike too.