Tax Talk With The Canadian Taxpayers Federation

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) was pleased to host Chris Berg, Senior Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) from Melbourne Australia, at a special reception at Calgary's Petroleum Club on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. The IPA led the successful campaign that ended that country's failed experiment with carbon taxes. As revenue hungry governments across Canada look to expand their coffers, this exclusive event will detail what these tax policies look like in practice and why they were reversed. About Australia's Carbon Tax: In 2009 there was a political consensus that Australia needed to “lead the world” in action on climate change. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared climate change “the greatest moral challenge of our time," and in 2011 the Australian government introduced one of the world's most ambitious carbon taxes. The Australian public turfed out its then-Labor government for an opposition that promised to “axe the tax.” The carbon tax was a major political issue for three elect