Registration - In-house Organization
CANADIAN TAXPAYERS FEDERATION / JASON KENNEY, PRESIDENT
Version 1 of 1 (1996-07-22 to 1997-02-12)
Version 1 of 1 (1996-07-22 to 1997-02-12) was submitted prior to the Lobbying Act coming into force on July 2, 2008. Due to different information requirements at that time, the registration is presented in the following format.
A. Organization Information
| Organization: |
CANADIAN TAXPAYERS FEDERATION
#410, 9707 - 110 STREET EDMONTON, AB T5K 2L9 Canada |
| Telephone number: | 800-667-7933 |
| Fax number: | 403-482-1744 |
| Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration: | JASON T KENNEY, PRESIDENT |
| Description of the organization's activities: | ACT AS A WATCHDOG ON GOVERNMENT SPENDING PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH TO ADV OCATE TAXPAYERS COMMON INTERESTS LOBBY GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL AND DEMOC RATIC REFORMS |
| Organization's membership or classes of membership: | OUR MEMBERSHIP IS MADE UP OF A CROSS SECTION OF TAXPAYERS ACROSS THE C OUNTRY, RANGING FROM CORPORATE MEMBERS TO INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS. |
| Was the organization funded in whole or in part by any domestic or foreign government institution in the last completed financial year? | |
About John Williamson
John Williamson is the Member of Parliament for New Brunswick
Southwest and Chairman of the House of Commons Public Accounts
Committee. He was re-elected for a third term in 2021.
During his
time in Parliament, John has also served as a member of the House of
Commons committee investigating all aspects of the Canada-China
relationship. In 2023, he was one of four MPs appointed to a special
committee charged with examining classified government documents related
to the firing of two scientists at Canada’s high-security National
Microbiology Laboratory. The committee also examined files related to
the lab’s troubling relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology
and China’s military medical complex.
Prior to John’s election to
the House of Commons in 2011, he worked as Stephen Harper’s Director of
Communications in the Office of the Prime Minister.
Outside of
elected office, John established Canadians for Affordable Energy and
held senior positions with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Atlantic
Institute for Market Studies and the Manning Centre for Building
Democracy. He was an editorial writer with the National Post at its
inception in 1998 and founding member of the newspaper’s editorial
board.
John has a master’s degree in economic history from the
London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree from McGill
University.
John’s wife Kelly is a Captain in the Royal Canadian
Navy, and they share duties raising their delightful daughter Charlotte
at home in St. Andrews with the family’s Cairn terrier, Teddy.
John Williamson
John Williamson has over twenty years of experience in public policy research and advocacy. He was the Member of Parliament for New Brunswick Southwest until 2015. Prior to his election to the House of Commons in 2011, Mr. Williamson worked as the Director of Communications in the Office of the Prime Minister.
Williamson was National Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) from January 2004 to September 2008, and CTF Ontario Director, based in Queen’s Park, from September 2002 to December 2003.
His opinion columns have been regularly printed in the National Post and in other daily newspapers across Canada, including the Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Winnipeg Free Press, Regina Leader-Post, Toronto Sun, Ottawa Citizen,Montreal Gazette, Telegraph Journal and Chronicle Herald. He has also been interviewed on numerous local radio stations and appeared on national television news programs.
Williamson is a former National Post editorial writer and a founding member of the newspaper’s editorial board. His writing focused on public policy issues dealing with taxation, social policy, government spending and parliamentary reform as well as political developments in Canada, the United States and the Far East.
He has also worked for the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, is a past Fellow with the Manning Centre for Building Democracy and Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute.
Williamson graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science. He later went on to complete a master's (MSc) degree in economic history at the London School of Economics. Britain’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office named him a Chevening Scholar during the 2008/2009 academic year. His academic concentration is the convergence of underperforming regional economies – so-called laggards – with leading national economies.
John is married to Lieutenant Commander Kelly Williamson, RCN, and splits his time between their home in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, and wherever Kelly is serving (except the dangerous deployments).
John Carpay
John Carpay was born in the Netherlands, and grew up in British Columbia. He earned his B.A. in Political Science at Laval University in Quebec City, and his LL.B. from the University of Calgary.
Fluent in English, French, and Dutch, John served the Canadian Taxpayers Federation as Alberta Director from 2001 to 2005, advocating for lower taxes, less waste, and accountable government.
Called to the Bar in 1999, he has been an advocate for freedom and the rule of law in constitutional cases across Canada.
As the founder and president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, John has devoted his legal career to defending constitutional freedoms through litigation and education. He considers it a privilege to advocate for courageous and principled clients who take great risks – and make tremendous personal sacrifices – by resisting the unjust demands of intolerant government authorities.
In 2010, John received the Pyramid Award for Ideas and Public Policy in recognition of his work in constitutional advocacy, and his success in building up and managing a non-profit organization to defend citizens’ freedoms.
CTF Alberta Director steps down
VICTORIA/EDMONTON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has accepted the resignation of its Alberta director, John Carpay. Mr. Carpay's last day with the CTF will be Friday, July 29, 2005.
"Since becoming Alberta director in 2001, John has continued to position the CTF as the leading taxpayers' advocacy group in the province, holding the government accountable for its over-spending, bloated budgets, and the provincial tax increases of 2002," stated national communications director Troy Lanigan.
"John's efforts were such that Alberta Venture magazine named him as one of the 50 most influential people in Alberta, and the Edmonton Sun described him as the 'unofficial leader of the opposition'," continued Lanigan.
"John has put the health care premium tax on Alberta's political map, submitting thousands of signatures for its abolition, and educating taxpayers and politicians as to why this tax is deceptive and not necessary," added Lanigan.
As a lawyer, John assisted the CTF with its intervention in the Treaty 8 Indian taxation court case (Benoit v. Canada). The trial decision, declaring that descendants of the Treaty 8 Indians did not have to pay any tax at any time for any reason, was overturned by the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear a further appeal. At trial and again in the Court of Appeal, the CTF argued that race and ancestry should play no part in taxation.
John has submitted numerous studies and reports to the Alberta government on topics ranging from education to water management to sports subsidies to democratic reform. He has met privately with over 50 MLAs and ministers, from all four parties represented in the Legislature.
"John's tenure was not without its humorous moments. John's attempt to cut a giant provincial income tax form in half with a chainsaw on the front steps of the Legislature garnered extensive media coverage, largely because the chainsaw refused to start. The placing of 82 pink pigs on the Legislature lawn was appreciated by taxpayers as an expression of their outrage at the antics of MLAs voting themselves massive increases in compensation without any public consultation," said Lanigan.
"On behalf of the CTF, we thank John for his years of service and wish he and his family well as he undertakes new challenges," Lanigan concluded.
A national search to staff the soon-to-be-vacant CTF Alberta Director position has commenced. For more information on the position click here.
For more information, contact national communications director Troy Lanigan at 250-888-5040 (cell), or John Carpay, Alberta director at 780-448-0159.
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