Canada’s combined federal and provincial government debt almost doubled between 2007 and 2024, rising from $1.21 trillion to $2.3 trillion in inflation-adjusted dollars, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.
The study, “The Growing Debt Burden for Canadians 2025 Edition,” by the fiscally conservative think tank warns this rapid accumulation of public debt has serious negative consequences for the Canadian economy, given that the money must be paid back, with interest, eventually.
OTTAWA — Automakers calling on Ottawa to roll back its electric-vehicle mandate say their case has so far failed to sway Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin, who appears “committed” to keeping it in place.
Rising pressure over the EV issue is part of the central tension facing Prime Minister Mark Carney, which is how much to adjust the Liberals’ climate policies to address concerns coming from industry and premiers, amid a time of economic uncertainty.
Canada is paying much more to help asylum seekers, and the bills are rising faster than officials expected.
The Immigration and Refugee Board plans to spend $335 million in 2024-25, up 27% from $264 million three years ago.
Ottawa added an extra $87 million after the 2022 Budget when the number of claims began to surpass the system’s capacity.
Is Canada’s supply management system for the production of dairy and eggs a major stumbling block in current negotiations between Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump?
Trump has certainly mentioned the Canadian dairy sector’s protective policies when airing his grievances about trade relations with Canada. However, he hasn’t opposed it with the same vigour as he recently opposed Canada’s Digital Services Tax (DST).
A filing deadline for the DST—which would have cost American tech giants like Amazon and Google billions in taxes to operate in Canada—was set to come into effect during the trade negotiations on June 30, making it a more visible target for Trump. But how strongly U.S. industry is pushing Trump to target Canada’s supply management, and whether he has other priorities, is also a factor to consider.
VANCOUVER — Canadian prosecutors have quietly dropped charges against a Chinese scientist in Vancouver accused of importing more than 100 kilograms of a narcotics precursor, raising serious questions about her connections to Chinese academic programs and networks suspected of links to espionage, foreign interference, and transnational crime, The Bureau has learned.
The federal government’s new law designed to fast-track major projects has put the true meaning of UNDRIP’s “free, prior and informed consent” provisions under the spotlight. At the core of the issue is a simple question: does “consent” mean an Indigenous veto over projects, even those in the public interest?
While the prime minister and his justice minister have tried to walk a delicate line to avoid making that commitment, British Columbia has gone all-in on the veto approach.
Outgoing antisemitism envoy calls out business, religious leaders for lack of action
OTTAWA – Ottawa’s outgoing envoy for tackling antisemitism is accusing Canada’s business sector and civil society of failing to call out a rising tide of hate against Jews and other minorities.
In an extensive interview with The Canadian Jewish News, Deborah Lyons also says she could not get a meeting with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre during her nearly two-year term.
She says Canadian society faces a growing gulf over violence in the Middle East and Canadians are “listening and hearing on different frequencies” instead of trying to find common ground against hate.
What a clueless woman. Your average Canadian did not ask that a dangerous cult be invited to settle here, and we do not wish to be blamed for something we are not responsible for.
Our imperious antisemitism Tsarina doesn’t get that no one will listen to a gov’t lackey demanding that we protect Jews from the Muslims she and her elite pals imported.
Face it Deb the Liberal government that appointed you would rather court the Islamist vote than protect Canadians.
It seems you were too insulated to realize you were being used.
Whatever vision of Canada you thought you were living in was just a mirage. Canada has been overrun by mass immigration from incompatible cultures who care nothing for our values and heritage. You and your Kool-Aid drinking pals called that multiculturalism and diversity. We call it The Great Replacement.
MASS DEPORTATION. REMIGRATION. That is the only solution.
Here’s the source article for this story in the CJN: Deborah Lyons shares why she quit as Canada’s antisemitism envoy: ‘It was hard to get people to speak up’
After 2 days of trade talks, premiers tackle crime, bail reform and health care
After two days of strategizing on how to respond to the trade war U.S. President Donald Trump is waging on Canada, the premiers sat down Wednesday to discuss violent crime, drug trafficking and health care.
They’re calling on the federal government to make good on its promise to introduce legislation in the fall sitting of Parliament that will make it harder for repeat violent offenders to get bail.
Supply management presents a mystery in multiple dimensions. How is it possible, on the one hand, that every political party could be so fanatically devoted to this policy, for the benefit of such a narrow slice of the economy – roughly 9,000 dairy farms, plus a couple of thousand chicken and egg producers – and at such exorbitant cost to the rest, even going so far as to pass legislation forbidding Canadian trade negotiators to make any concessions on it, no matter what they get in return?
Coyne is right for a change.
It may not be the sunny ways government, but some premiers certainly seem to be feeling sunny about the future.
And that’s despite troubled trade negotiations with the United States and the worsening effects of that country’s tariffs on Canadian businesses.
Still, provincial premiers have nary seemed so cheerful about their own relationships to each other — and the federal government.
h/t Auntie Polly
Once again it appears the Ottawa courthouse is determined to keep the Barber and Lich matter hidden from public scrutiny.
I've sent five emails to the Ottawa Ontario Court of Justice—including the trial coordinator, communications officer and front desk and received no response.
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) July 23, 2025
h/t Mauser
The average Canadian family spent 42.3 per cent of their income on taxes in 2024, according to a new study from the Fraser Institute.
The report from the Fraser Institute showed the average Canadian family, which it estimates to have earned an income of $114,289 last year, paid about $48,306 in total taxes to the federal, provincial, and municipal governments.
“At a time when the cost of living is top of mind across the country, taxes remain the largest household expense for Canadian families,” said Jake Fuss, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute in a news release.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the government to take action against the advocacy group that’s encouraged nearly 150 candidates to register as Independents in the upcoming byelection in rural Alberta’s Battle River—Crowfoot riding, where he too is running in the hopes of winning back a seat in the House of Commons.
In a letter addressed to the Government House Leader, Steven MacKinnon, Poilievre calls the ballot flooding “a blatant abuse of our democratic system.”
This month, the United States Congress passed President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which, among other things, extended and made permanent the income tax rate reductions and revised tax brackets first brought in through the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, namely a 2.6 percentage point cut to the top bracket. This should raise alarm bells for policymakers north of the border, as Canada will continue to have uncompetitive personal income tax rates compared to our American counterparts and fall even farther behind in the race to attract entrepreneurs, professionals, investors, and top talent.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says negotiations with the United States on trade and security will aim to get the “best deal for Canada.”
Carney spoke ahead of meeting with Canada’s premiers in Huntsville, Ont., where he is joining the talks on how to build a stronger Canadian economy and tear down internal trade barriers in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and tariffs.
