September 4, 2026
It is an irrefutable fact that Justin Trudeau was Canada’s worst ever prime minister. Trudeau’s wild extravagance and impractical policies were a disaster for this country. Perhaps one reason Canadians voted for Mark Carney in April 2025, was because they believed that he had a financial head and would be able to straighten out the chaos that Trudeau had created. Carney may have a financial head to manage his own affairs, but after a year and a half in office, there is every indication that he is unwilling or unable to deal with the massive financial crisis created by Trudeau. Instead of cutting back on expenses, Carney is increasing them even more than Trudeau. As a result, Canada now has an unacceptable $1.3 trillion federal debt which continues to grow. The interest paid on this debt annually ($53.8 billion) by the federal government is more than the federal government pays to the provinces for healthcare ($52.1 billion).
On August 13, 2026, the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute’s study, Taxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index, 2026 Edition, noted that Canadians spend more of their income on taxes than they do on basic essential needs such as food, housing and clothing—42% on taxes and 36% on basic necessities. The income tax burden on the average Canadian family since 1961 has increased by 3,234% once deferred taxes (deficit spending) is accounted for. Income tax liability has dramatically outpaced the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which has increased since 1961 by 946%.
Canadians can reasonably ask, Why has our tax liability increased so much and who is benefitting from it? The answer is found in deficit spending, corporate welfare and waste on programs that do nothing but redistribute tax dollars to “Friends of Government”. It is impossible to provide a complete list of the many questionable projects and grants undertaken by governments in the past decades, but the following examples illustrate that the taxes paid by Canadians in many instances are being abused.
- A high-speed train connecting Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City at an initial cost of $90 billion was proposed under the Trudeau government. Internal documents indicate, however, that the actual cost of this project, including maintenance and operations, will come to $150 billion, over the next four decades. Given the experience of government mega-projects, the $150 billion figure is undoubtedly on the low side. There are many further concerns about this project. Mark Carney, however, is ignoring the concerns and continuing with the project despite the fact that it will benefit only 5% of the population who will actually use the service. The Laurentian elites who run this country are pleased with the project, but few others support it. The proposed speed train has already led to the expropriation of large tracks of fertile farmland, including farms in Quebec that have been held by families over many generations. Government reports reveal that “several billion dollars” may be spent before construction even begins. Further, government records indicate that Liberal insiders who are employed by the crown corporation operating the project have already jumped on the gravy train. The project has paid out $2.8 million in bonuses between January 1 and July 16, 2025, including $1.2 million to 18 executives, about $68,500 each and $1.5 million to 116 non-executive staff.
- The Treasury Board of Canada published a report in 2024, indicating that since Trudeau became prime minister in 2015, the number of public servants has increased by 42% to a total of 367,772. The annual cost of the federal bureaucracy is $67 billion. The increase in the civil service benefits the Liberals in two ways: (1) the excess hiring reduces the unemployment numbers; and (2) the increase in public servants guarantees a strong voting bloc for the Liberals in ridings such as Ottawa and surrounding areas. Public employees will vote Liberal to safeguard their jobs. In Carney’s November 2025 budget, it was stated that he planned to reduce the number of public servants by way of attrition and voluntary departures, which will require many years to achieve, due to this vast excess.
- Senator Raymonde Gagné was appointed Speaker of the Senate in May 2023 by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Senator Gagné has acknowledged that she is an avid traveler. She and her spouse have made 14 international trips since her appointment, spending close to $1 million of taxpayers’ money. None of these trips have anything to do with her work in the Senate. For example, when the Senator visited South Africa, her itinerary included a visit to “the sacred forest of voodoo culture.” Gagné’s salary as Speaker is $272,300 a year, including residence and car allowances and other benefits. She is unconcernedly continuing her travels under Carney, paid by the taxpayers although they have no relation to her work in the Senate.
- In 2021, Justin Trudeau established a national daycare program at a cost of $30 billion over a 5-year period. This plan was supposed to provide $10 a day daycare across the country. This did not happen. Despite further infusions of cash provided by the efforts of the government-funded feminist lobbying groups, the program failed to reach its goals. The only winners in this national day care plan are the feminist, government-funded lobbyists whose job it is to spew out misinformation on the glories of a federal government funded and controlled programs that squeeze out private day care and the alternative of parents staying at home to care for their own children.
- In the 2026-2027 fiscal year, the federal government’s projected spending on Indigenous affairs is $36 billion. Canada’s Indigenous population consists of 1.8 million people identifying as Indigenous, or approximately 5% of the population. There is no accountability for this money. It is well known, however, that many aboriginals living on reserves exist in dilapidated housing, with unpaved roads and in dire poverty, with crime and other social ills. A specific example of government funding for aboriginals is the funding given to the Cowichan band in BC. This band consists of 5,627 members. Since 2001, this band has received nearly $1.3 billion in federal and provincial funding. In the fiscal year 2024-25 alone the band was awarded $103.3 million. The tax funded federal transfer to aboriginals is supposed to be used for education, health care, infrastructure, housing and social programs. No one knows whether this has occurred. The Cowichan band, by the way, was awarded in August 2025, by the BC Supreme Court judge, Barbara Norell (a big supporter of diversity and inclusion), title over BC lands on the south arm of the Fraser River, which included part of the city of Richmond, BC. The trial judge formerly practiced bankruptcy law before her appointment to the bench. Her former skills may well be needed by the many property owners who may lose their homes by her decision.
- The federal Department of Women and Gender Equality (WAGE) funds homosexual, transgender and feminist groups from an annual allocation of $407,142,146. The purpose of this allocation is to provide funding for homosexual, transgender and feminist groups for capacity building purposes and their community level work. This is pure seed money being paid to political groups to further their ideology.
(a) Homosexual Groups
In 2025–26, homosexual groups were funded by WAGE in the amount $186,813.078. The major organization and spokesperson for homosexuals is EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere). EGALE is responsible for the many court actions brought by homosexuals to achieve special benefits. In effect, because of the government funding, all of these court cases have been funded by the Canadian taxpayer.
In 2025, EGALE received from WAGE $1,321,146. In addition, EGALE received further funding from the government in 2025 for specific projects such as $1,172,346 to fight hate against homosexuality. There was another grant in 2025 by Veterans’ Affairs to EGALE in the amount of $505,312. EGALE also received $148,800 for Pride parades. The National Pride organization is lobbying the government for an extra $3 million per year to manage Pride parades across the country to compensate for the withdrawal of support for Pride by some of Canada’s corporations who had previously supported Pride parades.
(b) Gender-based Violence Funding
Canadian organizations were given $31,364,705 to improve support and help create long-term, comprehensive solutions for survivors of gender-based violence.
(c) Feminist Groups
In 2025 WAGE funded over 400 feminist groups which amounted to $ 80, 301,367. The funding by WAGE to feminist groups, however, is complex and not straight forward as some of the funding stated below also comes from project grants made by other government departments such as the Department of Canadian Heritage. Rest assured, however, that all of the funds received by the feminist groups comes from the same source – the Canadian taxpayer. Some of the feminist groups funded included the following: Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) (the legal arm of the feminist movement) received $501,540. Canadian Women’s Foundation grant was $5,512,098. Equal Voice, promoting women in political office, received $304,354. National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) received unspecified dollars in 2025, but in 2023, NAWL received $1,133,777 and in 2024, NAWL received $1,845,544 from WAGE.
- During his tenure as prime minister, Trudeau gave $11 billion for overseas feminist gender and equality programs. In 2017 Trudeau together with Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the launching of the Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP). The purpose of this program was to promote general equality and empowerment of women by Global Affairs. On March 8, 2025, Global Affairs funded 20 projects abroad amounting to $193 million to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls overseas. In November 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada is dropping its explicit feminist foreign policy, but it seems that Global Affairs did not receive that memo, since it is maintaining funding to 177 feminist projects abroad until 2033, spending $1.73 billion to do so.
Conclusion
It is unconscionable that Canadian families are being taxed to excess and their tax burden being added to, especially at a time when they are experiencing a declining standard of living. This continued corruption and blatant wasted spending cannot be ignored, nor is it sustainable. Governments at all levels in Canada have a spending problem boarding on the criminal. The disdainful disregard for taxpayers, and for the next generation to come, is fundamentally wrong on both economic and moral grounds. Changes in both moral and fiscal attitudes are required in order to restore the public’s confidence in both government and the economy.