Jesse Kline writes a commentary in the Canadian National Post about how cutting corporate welfare would be beneficial to the Canadian economy:
We can squabble about how much freedom the market should have to distribute goods and services or how much money should be put toward social programs, but there is one thing that all of us — small- and big-government advocates alike — should be able to agree on: Corporate welfare is bad for society.
And yet, between 1994 and 2007, the government of Canada spent $202-billion on corporate welfare programs. That is money that could have remained in the pockets of individual taxpayers and successful businesses — to be saved or reinvested — or spent by government on pensions for the elderly or employment training for the unemployed.