Hi John,

You’re part of the investigative journalism team that broke some huge stories this year.

Check out the headlines you generated:
* Governor General expensed $71,000 in limo fees for four-day Iceland trip in 2022 – National Post
* Toronto spent $33,000 on branded stickers for crack pipes – The Jerry Agar Show Newstalk 1010
* Feds spent thousands funding sex shows featuring seniors – Toronto Sun
* Taxpayers billed $500K so Liberal cabinet could go on “affordability” retreat – True North
* CBC CEO grilled by MPs over management ‘bonuses’ with layoffs looming – CBC
* Taxpayers Federation launching legal action to reveal who stayed in $6,000-per-night hotel suite – National Post

All of those headlines happened because taxpayers like you donated to the investigative journalism work at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation last year.

Here’s the best part: those investments in investigative journalism are making a difference.

After the story about Toronto paying for stickers on crack pipes, we caught the Saskatchewan government paying for crack pipes and it ended the program. The federal government scrapped the Mission Cultural Fund after we broke the story that it paid for seniors to tell sex stories. And you forced the prime minister to admit the obvious: he was the one in the $6,000-per-night hotel room in London.

There’s so much more that happens behind the scenes. Your investigative reporter, Ryan Thorpe, files hundreds of access-to-information requests to dig up these stories. They all save taxpayers money because they scare the daylights out of politicians and bureaucrats (like when you slow down because there’s a police car behind you whether you’re speeding or not).

We’ve set a new goal to file 100 access-to-information requests every month. That’s 1,200 a year. And the federal government charges $5 per request, so that’s going to cost $6,000.

You can be one of those donors who chips in for some of those access to information requests – it’s a great feeling when you see them blow up on the front page.

Will you chip in to invest in the CTF’s investigative journalism?
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Thank you so much for all of your support. Investigative journalism is still new for us and you’ve made it more successful than even we hoped. You’re making a difference.

Sincerely,
* Todd MacKay
* Vice-President of Communications – Canadian Taxpayers Federation

PS: Scaring politicians and bureaucrats with access-to-information requests can be a lot of fun. You can chip in to pay for a few on secure website by clicking this link: [link removed] ([link removed])

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