The Taxpayer Magazine 022 CTF

by: Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Publication date: 1993-03-01

Topics: Taxpayers Federation, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Freedom of Information Legislation, Government of Alberta, John Howard, Alberta FOI, Novatel scandal, Association of Alberta Taxpayers, Jason Kenney, Kevin Avram, Link Byfield, Conrad Adams, Herb Grubel, Paul Pagnuelo, Dave Yaeger, David Elton, Tom Jacobsen, Cliff Christian, Don Gass, Lynda Haverstock, Don Getty, Ken Dillen, Bob Pringle, Ray Speaker, Earl Blacklock, Riaz Choudhry, Paul Boothe, Peter Holle, Joe Lopushinsky, Troy Lanigan, Yul Kwon, Ralph Klein, Royal Commission on National Passenger Transportation, VIA Rail, Crown corporations, state enterprises, Embassy of Canada to the United States, Canadian embassy Washington, Malcolm McKechnie, Crown Assets, Institute for Policy Analysis, Dunn and Bradstreet, Bob Matheson, Report on Business, government subsidies for business, Department of Industry Science and Technology, Defense Industry Productivity Program, Regional Development Agreements, Western Economic Diversification, Atlantic Opportunities, National Research Council, SEDCO, Crocus Fund, state secrets, Visional Capital, Alberta Business and Trade Development, Alberta Economic Development Projects, Daniel Gringras, Larry Takahashi, Willie Blake, Telefilm Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Rick Bell, Calgary Sun, Alberta small business, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada Council, Alberta Department of Culture, Alberta Department of Advanced Education, Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada, International Cultural Relations Canada, Walter Phillips Gallery, Doug Main, Michael Rachlis, Canadian Public Health Association, Art Fox, CPHA, Canadian Pediatric Society, Merv Ungurain, Newfoundland taxes, Clyde Wells, Bob Rae, Floyd Laughren, Dominion Bond Rating Service, Canada Assistance Plan, Ontario credit rating, Prosperity Council Canada, Ontario Health, Auditor General of Ontario, Ataratiri, Aeromexico, Chile Telecom, World Bank study, Prince Edward Windsor, Michael Perry, entitlements, Jim Hawkes, Craig Docksteader, political party subsidy, Jack Shields, Ian Thorn, John Dahmer, Brian Luther, E.J. Sehn, Harvie Andre, Elaine Husband, Al Johnson, Murray Smith, Tony Ruprecht, Anil Giga, Alex Kindy, Ken Richmond, Lee Richardson, Bobbie Sparrow, Steve Harper, Arnold Malone, Peggy Blair, Ross Harvey, Bill Lesick, Canadian debt crisis, John Loney, Steve Paproski, Nels Rissling, Murray Dorin, Marie Gordon, Colin McDonald, Harbans Dhillon, David Kilgour, Chris Peirce, Jim Edwards, C.D. Howe Institute, Bob Friedland, Barclay Johnson, Evans MacLean, Halyna Freeland, Doug Main, Scott Thorkelson, Rolf Nielsen, Brian O'Kurley, Dennis Tindall, Robert Grbavac, Edward Neufeld, Blaine Thacker, Ken Copithorne, Ken Hughes, Bob Porter, Jim Ridley, Albert Cooper, Norman Dyck, Daniel Fletcher, Doug Fee, Michael Roth, Peter Nicholson, Kent Davidson, Walter Van De Walle, Dennis Pawlowski, Richard Johnson, Jim Henderson, Willie Littlechild, Dal Brown, Louise Feltham, Preston Manning, Muriel Stanley Venne, Burns Fry, John Bitonti, Svend Robinson, Samuel Stevens, Mary Collins, John Pozer, Jack Langford, Donald Ursaki, Dave Worthy, Ray Rogers, Robert Skelly, Edward Carmichael, Darlene Weir, Sylvia Bishop, Fred Gingell, Stan Wilbee, David Barrett, Owen Lippert, Ross Belsher, Janet Chisholm, Don Olds, Lynn Fairall, Neil Johnson, Tony Wattie, Robert Wenman, Russ Cundari, Nelson Riis, Stan Graham, Sid Parker, Bob Brisco, Garry Jenkins, Lyle Kristiansen, Joy Langan, Nesbitt Thomson, Gerry St. Germain, Ted Schellenberg, David Stupich, Dawn Black, Carlos Brito, Marie Taylor, Michel Rabu, Raymond Skelly, Allan Warnke, Chuck Cook, Irene Ip, James Hatton, Donna Stewart, Al Horning, Bryan McIver, Murli Pendharkar, David Simpson, Jake Spoor, Lyle Dean MacWilliam, Joanne Grimaldi, Fred King, J.J. Macdonell, Jack Whittaker, Richard Popp, Mae Reid, Ian Waddell, Bob Harkins, Brian Gardiner, Valerie Kordyban, Frank Oberle, Alan Timberlake, Tom Beardsley, balanced federal budget, Tom Siddon, Floyd Sully, Kathryn Clout, Patrick Crofton, Lynn Hunter, Jim Fulton, Ray Halvorson, Cliff Blair, Jim Karpoff, Don Ross, Don Mazankowski, Benno Friesen, Judy Higginbotham, Gill Charan, Kim Campbell, Johanna den Hertog, Tex Enemark, Raymond Leung, Margaret Ann Mitchell, Paul Nielsen, Bill Clarke, Pierre Trudeau, Gerry Scott, John Turner, John Fraser, Woody MacLaren, Martin Toren, John Brewin, Michael James O'Connor, Geoff Young, David Campbell, Lee Clark, Joe Clark, Nazir Ahmad, Rod Murphy, Rodney Spence, Alain Bouchard, Eric Irwin, Brian White, Bonnie Alston, Charlie Mayer, Gerry Follows, Harvey Harland, Brian Mulroney, Felix Holtmann, Jake Epp, Wes Penner, David Bjornson, Howard Pawley, Peter Sanderson, Leo Duguay, Ronald Duhamel, Norman Perry Isler, David Orlikow, Jean Chretien, Rey Pagatakhan, Cyril Keeper, Paul Taylor, David Walker, Dorothy Dobbie, Allan Kaufman, Lloyd Axworthy, Garth Dawley, John Harvard, George Minaker, Allan MacEachen, Bill Blaikie, Mike Thompson, Shirley Timm-Rudolph, Harold Culbert, Bob Corbett, Eldon Hunter, Jean Gauvin, Douglas Young, Romeo Rossignol, Bernard Valcourt, direct democracy in Canada, Maurice Dionne, Bud Jardine, Dennis Cochrane, George Rideout, J.W. Bud Bird, Omer Leger, Fernand Robichaud, Greg Thompson, Brad Woodside, Guy Arsenault, Social Credit Party, Al Girard, Joe Boyce, G.S. Gerry Merrithew, Morrissey Johnson, Fred Mifflin, Joe Price, Roger Simmons, George Baker, Abe Schwartz, Brian Tobin, NDP, Terry Young, Joseph Goudie, Bill Rompkey, Jim Baird, Jack Harris, Ross Reid, John Crosbie, Genevieve Payne, Jack Iyerak Anawak, Peter Kusugak, Patrick Boyer, Sedluk Bryan Pearson, Ethel Blondin, Wayne Cahill, Dave Nickerson, John Murphy, Pat Nowlan, Francis LeBlanc, Lawrence O'Neil, David Dingwall, Michael MacDonald, GST, Russell MacLellan, David MacDonald, Marion Anderson, Elmer MacKay, Bill Casey, Dennis James, Mike Forrestall, Ron MacDonald, Mary Clancy, Ray Larkin, Taxpayers' Revolt, Stewart McInnes, Howard Crosby, Michael Kelly, Lois Wiseman, Mike DeLory, Peter McCreath, Coline Campbell, Gerald Comeau, Maurice Foster, Lloyd Greenspoon, Proposition 13, Jim Reed, Terry Kelly, Jim O'Malley, Neil Young, John McDermid, John Morris, Pandori MP, Harry Chadwick, Gurjit Grewal, Paul Ledgister, The People's Mandate, Derek Blackburn, Steven Bosanac, David Carll, Lynn McDonald, Dennis Mills, Wayne Allan Shillinglaw, Cathy Hird, Gus Mitges, Douglas Tompson, Bill Kempling, Dundurn Press, Jane Mulkewich, James Smith, Ron Cooper, Bruce Davidson, Pat Sobeski, Eugene Bellemare, Maureen McTeer, Reginald Belair, Guy Desjardins, Len Wood, Douglas Bruce, Charles Caccia, Alex Franco, Anna Menozzi, Brant Loper, Yasmin Ratansi, Alan Redway, Sarkis Assadourian, Barbara Greene, John Bosley, Liz Yorke, Taxpayers' Bill of Rights, Doug Moffatt, Ross Stevenson, Margaret Wilbur, Tony Abbott, Vittoria Levi, Joseph Volpe, Tony Csinos, Bob Habkirk, Ken Monteith, Allard Colyn, Dean Smith, Girve Fretz, Sean O'Flynn, Jim Caldwell, John Coggans, Jerry Pickard, Steven Langdon, Ray Robinet, Mary Schwass, Ted Humphreys, Roy MacLaren, Rossland, Bob Pennock, Patrick Boyer, Judy Brandow, Don Boudria, Roger Presseault, Frank Gauthier, Alex Michalos, Bill Winegard, Bud Bradley, Eric Butt, Andre Carrel, Bob Speller, Pierre Klein, Garth Turner, Sheila Copps, Bill West, Dave Wilson, Grant Darby, Marion Dewar, Beth Phinney, Stan Keyes, Ray Hnatyshyn, Peter Peterson, Lesley Russell, Colin Gibson, Julia McCrea, Geoff Scott, Bud Acton, Earl Smith, Bill Vankoughnet, Murray Cardiff, Ken Dunlop, Parliamentary Food Services, Tony McQuail, Dick Motlong, Robert Nault, John Parry, Rex Crawford, Elliot Hardey, Leo Rustin, Len Johnson, Flora MacDonald, Peter Milliken, House Management Committee, Sue Coulter, John English, John Reimer, Ralph Ferguson, Sid Fraleigh, Paul Dick, Janet Marshall, Jennifer Cossitt, Jim Jordan, Shirley Martin, Therese Lavoie-Roux, John Mayer, John Munro, Marion Boyd, Joe Fontana, Jim Jepson, Mary Copps-Sutherland, Tom Hockin, Bruce Lundgren, Garnet Bloomfield, Terry Clifford, Senate Internal Economy Committee, Michael Wyatt, Bill Attewell, Jag Bhaduria, Albina Guarnieri, Laurie Pallett, Don Blenkarn, Gil Gillespie, Doug Fisher, Bob Horner, Beryl Gaffney, Canadian provincial debt, Bill Tupper, Dick Harrington, Rob Nicholson, Gary Pillitteri, Richard Berthiaume, Pierre Legros, John Rodriguez, Moe Mantha, Dawson Pratt, Bob Wood, Charles Bens, Reg Jewell, Christine Stewart, Bonnie Brown, Otto Jelinek, John Roberts, Rene Soetens, Jim Wiseman, Ed Broadbent, Nancy McLean, Ed White, Municipal Research Bureau, Mike Cassidy, Mac Harb, Bob Plamondon, John Manley, Barry Turner, Marlene Catterall, David Daubney, Kathryn Barnard, Jean-Robert Gauthier, Gilles Guenette, Oakville, Alfred Apps, Brian Donlevy, Bruce Halliday, Jesse Flis, Abby Pollonetsky, Andrew Witer, Stan Darling, Joanne Malchuk, Jamie McGarvey, Harry Brightwell, privatisation of government services, Linda Ham, Mike Stinson, Bill Domm, Barry MacDougall, Gill Sandeman, Jack Arthur, Lyle Vanclief, Ben Hoffman, Len Hopkins, Bill Graham, privatization, David MacDonald, Doug Wilson, Julie Foley, Joe Foreman, Ken James, Joe Sniezek, Steve Butland, Jim Kelleher, Pauline Browes, Garth Dee, Kitchener, Odysseus Katsaitis, Mary Cook, Betty Fevreau, Bob Hicks, Dave Gracey, Reg Stackhouse, Tom Wappel, Jim Karygiannis, Paul McCrossan, Doug Boswell, Export Development Corporation, Derek Lee, Edna Anderson, Jack Ramsay, Judy Watson, Doug Lewis, Alan Martin, Mike McMurter, Ken Atkinson, Barbara Buchanan, Rob West, Paul Labbe, Barbara McDougall, Aideen Nicholson, Eric Cameron, Bob Kilger, Bob Fera, Bill Major, Diane Marleau, Iain Angus, Ken Boshcoff, Stan Dromisky, Michael Wilson, Joe Comuzzi, Ernie Epp, Fred Stille, John MacDougall, Ben Serre, Earl Evans, Aurele Gervais, Cid Samson, Peter Thalheimer, Dan Heap, Miami Manitoba, Tony Ianno, Joe Pimentel, Bruce Glass, Bill Scott, Cathy Vainio, Walter McLean, Scott Piatkowski, Steven Woodworth, Ken Lee, Gilbert Parent, Linda Duncan, Allan Pietz, Perrin Beatty, Murray Calder, Shirley Farlinger, John Oostrom, Jim Peterson, Paul Forder, Herb Gray, Shaughnessy Cohen, Bruck Easton, Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation, Howard McCurdy, Bob Kaplan, Cathy Mele, Rocco Sebastiano, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Micheal O'Brien, Steve Krashinsky, John Nunziata, Carlo Testa, Alice Lambrinos, Grahame Newton, Sergio Marchi, Elizabeth Smith, John Cole, Frank Stronach, Pat Binns, Lawrence MacAulay, Prowse Chappell, Joe McGuire, George Proud, Tom McMillan, Clayton Manness, Catherine Callbeck, Gordon Lank, Gerry Lemoyne, Normand Michaud, Guy St.Julien, Raymond Garneau, Nicole Roy-Arcelin, Vincent Arciresi, Jean Corbeil, Lise Bourgault, Lorne Gunter, Peter Georgakakos, Gilles Bernier, Pierre-Maurice Vachon, Jean-Guy Hudon, Linda Julien, Pierre Blais, Claudette Beaulieu, Robert de Cotret, Maurice Roberge, Monique Landry, Canadian Taxpayers Conference, Zsolt Pogany, Darryl Gray, Lyse Routhier, Marie Gibeau, Carlo Rossi, Andre Bachand, Gabrielle Bertrand, Phil Edmonston, Richard Grise, Bernard Loiselle, Michael Harcourt, Andre Burke, Michel Champagne, Jocelyn Crete, Monique Tardif, Paul Vezina, Jean-Marc Fournier, Pierre Hetu, Ricardo Lopez, Laval Gauthier, Andre Harvey, Canada Pension Plan, Jean-Guy Guilbault, Jean-Claude Lagace, Pierre Amaranian, Vincent Della Noce, Marcel Masse, Real Patry, Charles-Eugene Marin, Delton Sams, Mark Assad, Claudy Mailly, Laura Fisher, Marius Tremblay, Allan Koury, Serge Laprade, Gaetan Nadeau, Danielle Lapointe-Vienneau, Nicole Moreault, Gilles Rocheleau, Denis Coderre, Gaby Larrivee, Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Taxpayers Rights Association of B.C., Francoise Gauthier, Laval Tremblay, Gilles Desjardins, Andre Plourde, Pierre Deniger, Fernand Jourdenais, Bertrand Bouchard, Lucien Bouchard, Jean Paradis, Victor Drury, Youth Alliance for Debt Freedom, Bob Layton, Pauline Gingras, Marielle Guay-Migneault, Gilles Loiselle, Claude Lanthier, Paul Martin, Serge Paquette, Jacques Vien, Charles Hamelin, Francois Beaulne, Jason Ford, Jean Claude Malepart, Paul Cappon, Celine Hervieux-Payette, Guy Ricard, Francois Arsenault, Jacques Tetreault, Gabriel Fontaine, Jean-Paul Harney, Denis Sonier, Michel Dupuy, Richard Vedder, Nic Leblanc, Daniel Senez, Richard Lacoursiere, Pierre Lajeunesse, Maurice Tremblay, Nicole Duple, Suzanne Duplessis, Sylvain Garneau, Charles Langlois, Claude Canuel, Sir Roger Douglas, Jean-Luc Joncas, Francois Gerin, Jean-Guy Landry, Luc Chouinard, Andre Cordeau, Carole Jacques, Charles DeBlois, Eric Gourdeau, Robert Paquet, Sheila Finestone, Joel Fox, Robert Presser, Warren Allmand, Samir Chebeir, Jean-Pierre Hogue, Louise O'Neill, Lucie Pepin, Giovanni Adamo, Andre Ouellet, Frank Venneri, Bernard Patry, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, Gerry Weiner, Barry Moore, John Trent, Brian Murphy, Marc Ferland, Paulin Plamondon, Remi Bujold, Marcel Tremblay, Yvon Hebert, Louis Plamondon, California Tax Reduction Movement, Yvon Cote, Alain Tardif, Eva Cote, Monique Vezina, Benoit Bouchard, Jacques Guilbault, Giuseppe Sciortino, Benoit Tremblay, Madeleine Provost, Marcel Prud'homme, HJTA, Davud Berger, Keith MacLellan, Nicole Desranleau, Raymond Dupont, Pierrette Venne, Andree Champagne, Michel Gaudette, Clement Couture, Gilles Dolbec, Lyse Hubert-Bennett, Association of Saskatchewan Taxpayers, Shirley Maheu, Marc Beaudoin, Alfonso Gagliano, Yvon Milette, Denis Pronovost, Claude Rompre, Danielle Cote, Jean Lapierre, Jean Charest, Dennis Wood, Tax Facts 8, Gabriel Desjardins, Remy Trudel, Claire Brouillet, Jean-Marc Robitaille, Robert Toupin, Nicholas Papirakis, Pierre Vincent, Jean Blais, Pierre Cadieux, Marcel Danis, Fraser Institute, Maurice Lemoine, Gilbert Chartrand, Raymond Lavigne, Bev Kaufman, Bill McKnight, Grant Whitmore, Vic Althouse, Jack Scowen, Linda Boxall, Bill Gottselig, Jack Mintz, Rod Laporte, J.J. Cennon, Ray Funk, Peter Kingsmill, Les Benjamin, Don McGregor, Sam Richardson, Simon de Jong, William Lawrence Hicke, Dickson Bailey, Herbert Grubel, Ralph Goodale, Larry Schneider, Chris Axworthy, Bill Patrick, Grant Bryden, Debra Ferguson, Ron Fisher, Stan Hovdebo, Don Ravis, C.M. Red Williams, Doug Purvis, Mike Bauche, Len Gustafson, Jeff Sample, Laura Balas, Paul Lewans, Geoff Wilson, Neil Currie, John Gormley, Len Taylor, Virginia Battiste, Lew Uhler, Lorne Nystrom, Charlie Friday, Audrey McLaughlin, Allan Adair, Dennis Anderson, Fred Bradley, Doug Cherry, John Drobot, Robert Elliot, Peter Elzinga, California Centre for Responsive Government, Leroy Fjordbotten, Don Getty, John Gogo, Jim Horsman, Allan Hyland, Dick Johnston, Elaine McCoy, Rick Orman, Bill Payne, William Roberts, Norm Baker, Ken Rostad, Don Sparrow, Fred Stewart, Norm Weiss, golden handshake, Auditor General of Alberta, Alberta Government Telephones Commission, Norm Wallace, Tom Flanagan, Bjorn Tarras-Wahlberg, Del Robertson, Robin Richardson, Allan Warrack

Collection: magazine_contributions; magazine_rack

Language: English

The twenty-second issue of The Taxpayer Magazine.

Topics discussed include freedom of information legislation, bureaucratic interference in free enterprise, direct democracy in Switzerland and elsewhere, fiscal conservatism at the municipal level, the benefits of privatisation, public subsidy of politicians, and more.