After our report on wealth inequality at the national level a few months ago, @obsqcinegalites.bsky.social approached me to ask whether we could produce similar estimates for the provincial level. A few months later, here's the result!

Canadians for Tax Fairness@c4tf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New report: Extreme wealth inequality is soaring all across Canada — good thing we've got a wealth tax for that! 🎩🥂 See how your province stacks up here: bit.ly/C4TFProvWealth

Something is happening in Quebec... a real conversation about the problem of extreme wealth! This article asks questions I've never seen posed in English media - why do we say Galen Weston is "worth" $18B? We must not conflate wealth and personal value. Why can't we have this convo in English media?

Oxfam-Québec@oxfam-quebec.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💡 Merci à @pauljournet.bsky.social de se pencher sur ce tabou. Chez Oxfam, nous le disons depuis plusieurs années: la lutte contre les #inégalités passe par une taxation juste et équitable des ultrariches.

Carney’s fuel tax pause rewards polluters. Instead of capturing windfall profits for the public good, Ottawa is bankrolling fossil fuel companies and starving services needed during the #climatecrisis. New from @silasxuereb.bsky.social: ricochet.media/politics/car... #cdnpoli @c4tf.bsky.social

Carney’s fuel tax pause rewards polluters

Carney’s fuel tax pause rewards polluters and will generate more windfall profits for oil companies amidst a rising affordability crisis.

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While this will help some households with gas prices, this is not the solution we need - Big Oil is profiting immensely from this crisis, now those profits will come at the expense of our public services as well as workers' paychecks. We should be redistributing those profits not our public services

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 4mo ago

#Breaking: The federal government will lift the national excise tax on gas until Labour Day in a move that will drop prices by 10 cents per litre, Mark Carney announces. New from Tonda MacCharles and @aballinga.bsky.social:

Unlike most countries around the world, Canada could actually experience economic growth due to the US' illegal war on Iran. But, we need to focus on its distribution, not growth itself. The status quo means all that growth will be captured by a select few while the rest of us face higher prices...

Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gas prices are soaring, and so are Big Oil profits. War-driven shocks are delivering billions to oil majors while Canadians pay more at the pump. A windfall tax could turn excess profits into public good, write Jared Walker and @silasxuereb.bsky.social of @c4tf.bsky.social.

Another year of record corporate profits, new tax cuts for corporations, and investment still did not budge. We need a different approach.

Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Canada’s biggest corporations made a record $677B in profits last year. Yet the share they pay in taxes has never been lower, and investment is lagging. Jared Walker and @silasxuereb.bsky.social of @c4tf.bsky.social ask: If tax cuts worked, wouldn’t we have seen the results by now?

The extremely concerning provisions in Bill C-15 that could exempt corporations from myriad federal laws still have not been removed. Committees added some additional caveats but the bill still allows a single minister to exempt any corporation from paying income taxes. 350.org/press-releas...

350.org raises the alarm about Canada’s undemocratic Bill C-15

Vancouver / Traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations February 26, 2026...

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Higher gas prices are going somewhere: into the pockets of the owners of the oil and gas industry. An excess profits tax could redistribute those funds back to us. For more information on what that could look like: www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

Taxing excess profits in Canada: An urgent proposal for action

What is an excess profits tax?

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Jim Stanford@jimbostanford.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As you fill up with gas that's now up 20c/litre in a week, remember who profits. Cdn oil companies made $150b after-tax profit after the last oil spike (2022). An excess profit tax redistributed to consumers would ease the pain. My take in @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Canadian oil profits for the Big 4 are set to soar as the US/Israel strikes on Iran rattle global markets. 📈 While prices spike, Cdn producers could reap a "risk premium." We should tax these windfall profits to invest in future-proof, climate-resilient energy. We need a windfall tax on O&G now.

🚨NEW REPORT: Our new report, along with our friends at BC Policy Solutions, estimates wealth concentration in Canada from 1999-2023. We find that the share of wealth owned by the top 1% increased from 19.3% to 22.7% over this period. www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

The new robber barons: A quarter century of wealth concentration in Canada

A quarter century of wealth concentration in Canada Billionaires. Wealth taxes. Stock market booms and busts. In one form or another, wealth is in the headlines day after day. But what actually is wea...

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My latest for CCPA is actually not about taxes! But amidst the celebration of Carney's Davos speech, his government is continuing to make very concerning moves you probably haven't heard about...

CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives@policyalternatives.ca · 7mo ago

Buried on page 300 of the government’s omnibus budget implementation bill is an extremely troubling clause regarding corporate power in Canada. #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

No end is in sight for the race to the bottom on corporate taxation shown below. The OECD confirmed today that US multinationals will be exempt from the GMT agreement and created a new carveout for tax credits, meaning even the meagre 15% rate is unlikely to apply to most multinationals in Canada

Under U.S. Pressure, OECD Agrees to Deal Allowing Continued Tax Abuse by Big U.S. Corporations

Today’s announcement by the OECD that U.S.-headquartered corporations will continue to be exempt from key elements of the global minimum tax regime represents a regrettable setback for the global figh...

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Silas Xuereb@silasxuereb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The surge in corporate profit rates that began during COVID has never ended - a greater share of corporate revenue is profits than ever before, and we are taxing those profits less than ever. No wonder CEO pay has hit another record high!

The surge in corporate profit rates that began during COVID has never ended - a greater share of corporate revenue is profits than ever before, and we are taxing those profits less than ever. No wonder CEO pay has hit another record high!

CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives@policyalternatives.ca · 8mo ago

The richest Canadian CEOs now make 248 times more than the average worker wage in Canada. The @policyalternatives.ca's new CEO Pay report shows how the gulf between the rich and the rest of us keeps growing and what to do about it. @davidmaccdn.bsky.social

Where is the critical coverage of the budget implementation bill? It allows ministers to exempt ANY entity from ANY federal law (except the criminal code). The CCF says this gives ministers the power to "act like dictators" yet I haven't seen a single English-language media outlet cover this

CCF warns that C-15 would allow Carney gov’t to exempt any person or company from almost any law - Canadian Constitution Foundation

TORONTO – The CCF is concerned that a provision in Bill C-15 would give federal ministers the power to exempt any individual or business from almost any law

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As the federal gov inconceivably lifts regulations on oil and gas and lays the groundwork for a new pipeline, a reminder that our recent research found "Canada's" O&G industry's recent expansion increased payouts to foreign shareholders without adding any new jobs www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

Exporting Profits

Introduction

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Seth Klein@sethdklein.bsky.social · 9mo ago

US-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of 🇨🇦 Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty "Lead members of the Pathways Alliance—Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, Imperial Oil & Suncor—are behaving like a Trojan horse for Trump’s anti-climate politics" www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...

the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

In our latest for The Breach, Jared and I do a deep dive on how continued tax haven abuse is not just despite our government policy - it's because of our government policy.

The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 12mo ago

Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens. Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price. breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...

Great to see income inequality getting the in-depth coverage it deserves! When we think about economic policy, we need to think not just about growth, but about how economic growth will be distributed - too often it has benefitted shareholders and CEOs, not workers.

Isaac Phan Nay@isaacphannay.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"The richest, and the top one per cent in particular, have captured a significantly outsized proportion of economic growth,” — @silasxuereb.bsky.social with @c4tf.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/08... #BCLab #CanEcon

After decades of international cooperation and the domestic implementation of a global minimum corporate tax, the use of tax havens must be declining, right? Actually, our new report finds Canadian assets in tax havens hit a record $682B in 2024, up 165% from 2014 www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

The rise and rise of tax havens

Introduction: Canada has a big tax haven problem

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When asked about preventing corporate tax avoidance, Carney promised to review the corporate tax system but failed to commit to any meaningful action to stop the use of tax havens. With @c4tf.bsky.social, I explained why all parties need to address this now: www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

All parties must address tax havens in this election

In 2023, Canada’s investment in the top 15 tax havens hit a record $620B. As tax ha

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While affordability concerns heightened during the pandemic, they were not new... Half of Canadians’ market incomes increased less than the cost of living from 1982 to 2022. Shelter costs increased from 23.4% of a typical household’s budget in 1982 to 31.4%. www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

Canada's affordability divide: How the 1%'s rise left millions behind

Affordability and neoliberalism

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