Shocking levels of federal borrowing are pushing the nation to a point where “something is going to break,” Interim Budget Officer Jason Jacques yesterday warned the Commons government operations commitee. His remarks came hours after Jacques tabled documents indicating cabinet skipped this year’s deficit target by 62 percent: “That’s what is shocking.”
Corporate tax delinquents would see their names and debts published on a federal website under a private bill introduced in the Commons by Conservative MP Adam Chambers (Simcoe North, Ont.). The Commons six years ago defeated a similar bill sponsored by a Liberal-appointed senator: “It is in the public interest.”
It is not CMHC’s job to solve the housing crisis, the federal insurer’s $551,000-a year CEO yesterday told the Commons public accounts committee. Coleen Volk omitted all mention of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s earlier promise to ensure “everyone in Canada has a home they can afford” by 2030.
Cabinet will reintroduce an internet censorship bill, its third try in four years. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault yesterday said a pending bill would be similar to 2021 legislation, a failed bill critics called “overbroad and incoherent.”
The Liberal government has already blown through more than $21 million battling Freedom Convoy protesters in court — and that figure doesn’t even touch the criminal prosecutions.
Documents tabled in Parliament show the Department of Justice has racked up $21,031,000 on civil litigation and the Emergencies Act commission. That tally includes both real disbursements and “notional” costs for government lawyers billing their time against convoy files.
And the bill doesn’t stop there.
The Public Prosecution Service of Canada admitted it has its own convoy-related costs for federal prosecutors — but refused to say how much, claiming its system doesn’t properly track the spending.
Canadians know the civil tab alone is past $21 million, but the government won’t come clean on how high the true total really runs.
Rebel News reported earlier this week how the Liberals have also spent an additional $3.6 million in fighting challenges to Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act.
The act, which was used in February 2022 against the peaceful civil liberties demonstration, was deemed unconstitutional and unnecessary.
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