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MP pay increasing between $7,900 and $15,800 in 2025
By The Canadian Taxpayers Federation estimates members of Parliament will take a 3.9 per cent pay raise on April 1.
“Instead of padding their pockets again this year, it’s time for MPs to stand up for taxpayers and demand an end to these pay raises,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “Canadians can’t afford one more dollar going to highly paid politicians and MPs don’t deserve another raise.”
A backbench MP’s salary is currently $203,100. A minister collects $299,900, while the prime minister takes home a $406,200 annual salary.
MPs give themselves pay raises each year on April 1, based on the average annual increase in union contracts with corporations that have 500 or more employees.
While final pay numbers have not been released, contract data published by the government of Canada shows the average annual increase in corporate union contracts totaled about 3.9 per cent in 2024. Using this data, the CTF estimates this year’s pay raise will amount to an extra $7,900 for backbench MPs, $11,600 for ministers and $15,800 for the prime minister.
After this year’s pay raise, backbench MPs will receive a $211,000 annual salary, according to CTF estimates. A minister will collect $311,500 and the prime minister will take home $422,000.
Leger polling released by the CTF shows 80 per cent of Canadians opposed the MP pay raise in 2024, 80 per cent opposed it in 2023 and 79 per cent opposed it in 2022.
The federal government stopped automatic MP pay raises from 2010 to 2013 in response to the 2008-09 recession.
“Canadians need MPs who will be champions for taxpayers and demand an end to these pay raises, because when politicians pad their pockets, bureaucrats demand more money too,” Terrazzano said. “It’s not rocket science: MPs should do the right thing and stop their upcoming pay raise.”
| Position | Pre-Covid Salary | Current Salary | Salary Apr. 1 | Total increase since beginning of 2020 |
| Senator |
$153,900 |
$178,100 |
$186,000 |
$32,100 |
| MP |
$178,900 |
$203,100 |
$211,000 |
$32,100 |
| Minister |
$264,400 |
$299,900 |
$311,500 |
$47,100 |
| Prime Minister |
$357,800 |
$406,200 |
$422,000 |
$64,200 |
Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney seems to think giving you a discount code on a new furnace or some extra insulation is the best way to help you with affordability.
And he’s going to pay for the discounts by hitting businesses like fuel refineries and power plants with a hidden carbon tax. Of course, those businesses will just pass on the cost.
Bottom line: You still get hit with that hidden carbon tax when you buy gas or pay your bills.
But it gets worse.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at least attempted to give you some of the carbon tax money back through rebates. The Parliamentary Budget Officer consistently made it clear the rebates don’t cover all of the costs. But at least you could spend the money on the things you need most.
But under Carney’s “affordability” plan, you don’t get cash to pay down your credit card or buy groceries. You can only use the credits to buy things like e-bikes and heat pumps.
Here’s how Carney explained it.
“We will have the big polluters pay for climate incentives by developing and integrating a new consumer carbon credit market into the industrial pricing system,” Carney told a Halifax crowd. “While we still provide price certainty for households when they make climate smart choices.”
Translation: Carney would still make Canadians pay, but he’ll only help them with affordability if they’re making “smart” choices.
Sound familiar? This is a lot like the scheme former opposition leader Erin O’Toole ran on. And it ended his political career.
Carney’s carbon tax plan is terrible for two reasons.
First: it’s sneaky. Carney wants to hide the cost of the carbon tax. A powerplant running on natural gas is not going to eat the cost of Carney’s carbon tax; it will pass that expense down to ordinary people who paying the bills.
Second: as anemic as the Trudeau government rebates are, at least Canadians could use the money for the things they need most. It’s cash they can put it towards the next heating bill, or buy a pair of winter boots, or pay for birthday party decorations.
That kind of messy freedom makes some central planning politicians twitchy.
Here’s the thing: half of Canadians are broke and a discount on a new Tesla probably won’t solve their problems.
About 50 per cent are within $200 each month of not being able to make the minimum payments on their bills.
With the cost of groceries up $800 this year for a family of four, people are watching flyers for peanut butter. Food banks have record demand.
Yet, Carney wants Canadians to keep paying the carbon tax while blindfolded and then send thank-you cards when they get a few bucks off on a solar panel they can’t afford.
Clearly the architects of Carney’s plan haven’t spent many sleepless nights worrying about paying rent.
One of Carney’s recent gigs was governor of the Bank of England where he was paid $862,000 per year plus a $449,000 housing allowance.
With ermine earmuffs that thick, it’s hard to hear people’s worries.
About a thousand Canadians recently posted home heating bills online.
Kelly’s family in Northern Ontario paid $134 in the carbon tax for December’s home heating. Lilly’s household bill near Winnipeg was $140 in the carbon tax.
The average Alberta household will pay about $440 extra in the carbon tax on home heating this year.
After the carbon tax is hiked April 1, it will add an extra 21 cents to a litre of gasoline and 25 cents per litre of diesel. Filling a minivan will cost about $15 extra, filling a pickup truck will cost about $25 extra, and a trucker filling a big rig will have to pay about $250 extra in the carbon tax.
Trudeau’s carbon tax data is posted online.
Carney’s carbon tax would be hidden.
Carney isn’t saying the carbon tax is an unfair punishment for Canadians who are trying to drive to work and heat their homes.
He says the problem is “perception.”
“It has become very divisive for Canadians,” Carney told his Halifax crowd about the carbon tax. “It’s the perceptions of the negative impacts of the carbon tax on households, without fully recognizing the positive impacts of the rebate.”
Carney isn’t trying to fix the problem. He’s trying to hide it. And he wants Canadians to be happy with discount codes on “smart” purchases instead of cash.
Kris Sims is the Alberta Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
USAID wasn’t just funding biased reporting. They were actively reshaping foreign governments.
Former State Department official Mike Benz, an expert on cyber policy, censorship, and information warfare, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience Wednesday and dropped jaw-dropping insights into USAID’s absurd abuse of US tax dollars.
According to Benz, USAID has been funneling taxpayer dollars into so-called investigative journalism, but the real goal isn’t transparency—it is control.
“Everything they do is a hit piece about an instance of corruption that can be used by prosecutors in the area to arrest the political opponents of the State Department,” Benz explained.
USAID’s program, officially called Strengthening Transparency and Accountability through Investigative Reporting, claims to promote a free press. But Benz revealed its true purpose is to ruin people’s lives and go after political targets in order to change the policies of foreign governments from the inside.
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For a mere investment of $20 million, USAID’s state-sponsored hit pieces were able to:
• Generate at least $4.5 billion in fines against targets of these hit pieces.
• Influence over 548 policy changes across foreign governments and private sectors.
USAID justified these programs under the term “capacity building,” which Benz warned is a red flag. “Now, this is the phrase everybody has to know. Capacity building is what this is all built under. That means pumping up the Blob’s assets,” he explained.
And USAID wasn’t just funding biased reporting. They were actively reshaping foreign governments. Benz revealed 548 policy changes resulted from these state-sponsored media attacks, which he suggested were for the “furtherance of USAID’s or the State Department’s foreign policy goals.”
Think about what that means. The U.S. government is secretly funding media outlets to push narratives, destroy political opponents, and manipulate foreign policy, all under the guise of investigative journalism.
The question is – if they’re doing this overseas, how much of it is happening at home?
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