September 2025 Poll

100 days to fix thousands of days of messing up?? Not in my lifetime.  The elected “Minister of finance” changes often, never there long enough to change anything and has no idea of what is and is not taking place anyway.  It is the “Deputy Minister” that stay on and on and it is supposed to look after things. Bob Hamilton has a cushy, secure job forever as the guy in charge and has no reason to change anything.  We already know how good and reliable the government is at choosing software - just remember the Phoenix payroll system.  As long as they keep issuing glowing reports on themselves, there will never be a reason to change anything.

By Pat Gamborg on September 15, 2025

They’re not gonna “fix” a darn thing. What they will do.is exactly what they’ve been doing the last 2-3 years. Make things even MORE difficult and complicated. And say it’s the name of “security”.

The simply act of efiling a representative was just fine the way it was. Now it’s almost impossible.

It’s quite obvious they are out to suckmore $$$ from the tax payer. It’s absolutely ridiculous what’s going on at CRA.

By Ernie Waldner on September 11, 2025

There is no way it will shorten turn around times.  I am willing to bet their response will be to lengthen turn around standards.  The true standard should be the same time they provide taxpayers (generally 30 days for assessments).

By GERALD campbell on September 10, 2025

Think that plan will help and employee access to review .

By Sladjana Sladja Pastar on September 10, 2025

Not a hope in hell they’ll have a plan in 100 days, never mind implementation of the plan.  CRA needs to:
- open access to CRA employees that actually know what they’re doing.
- reinstate counter service at TSO’s
- provide direct access for Tax Specialists to CRA individuals with the authority to make things happen
- make tax planning and preparation fees tax deductible, we’ll do the work properly in the first place

By Alan Rowell on September 10, 2025

Asking the CRA to fix the CRA is like letting the fox into the chicken coop to figure out how to save the chickens.  It just doesn’t make sense.  The minister should instead go to the ones that are responsible for carrying out the tax reporting and see what the problems are.  Actually, we know what they are; we just need someone to listen to the solutions.

By Robert Litschel on September 10, 2025

This system is completely broken from the top down and needs a full house cleaning - some finance minister (who will be no different than the rest) is just saying words and not actually doing something.  They need to revamp the entire system to be tax payer friendly - not CRA employee friendly. They have gone online with everything and now we have more problems than ever before.  Don’t trust any minister to fix this - this headline is just for show.

By Carla Gibson on September 10, 2025