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Feds dish out $406 million in bonuses in 2023
From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Author: Ryan Thorpe
About 90 per cent of federal government executives take a bonus each year, according to records obtained by the CTF.
“Less than 50 per cent of [performance] targets are consistently met within the same year”
The Trudeau government rubberstamped more than $406 million in bonuses to federal departments and Crown corporations during the last fiscal year, according to government records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
“Bonuses are for when you do a good job, they shouldn’t be handed out like participation ribbons,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “Taxpayers can’t afford to bankroll big bonus cheques each and every year for highly-paid government executives.”
Bureaucrats working in federal departments and agencies took home $210,784,269 in taxpayer-funded bonuses in 2023-24. Meanwhile, bureaucrats working in federal Crown corporations took $195,637,952 in bonuses.
All told, the federal government dished out $406,422,221 in bonuses last year.
This pushes total bonuses for bureaucrats working in federal departments to more than $1.5 billion since 2015.
About 90 per cent of federal government executives take a bonus each year, according to records obtained by the CTF.
“Less than 50 per cent of [performance] targets are consistently met within the same year,” according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the government’s independent, non-partisan budget watchdog.
“In the real world, when you fail to do your job you might get a pink slip, not a big bonus cheque,” Terrazzano said. “The government needs to stop handing out these taxpayer-funded bonuses to failing government executives.”
The records detailing bonuses for 2023-24 were released in response to order paper questions submitted by Conservative member of Parliament Andrew Scheer (Regina-Qu’Appelle). The records break down both executive and non-executive bonuses.
The Business Development Bank of Canada issued more bonuses than any other Crown corporation, with its bureaucrats taking home more than $59 million.
The Department of Justice issued the most bonuses among federal departments and agencies, with its bureaucrats taking home more than $18 million.
|
Top-5 Crown corporations |
Total bonuses |
Executives who got a bonus |
|
Business Development Bank of Canada |
$59,105,600 |
100% |
|
Export Development Canada |
$35,632,112 |
95% |
|
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. |
$27,328,821 |
100% |
|
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
$14,902,755 |
100% |
|
VIA Rail |
$11,391,998 |
73% |
|
Top-5 federal departments |
Total bonuses |
Executives who got a bonus |
|
Department of Justice |
$18,969,929 |
97% |
|
Canada Revenue Agency |
$18,076,704 |
97% |
|
Employment & Social Development Canada |
$12,936,480 |
98% |
|
Global Affairs Canada |
$12,593,425 |
94% |
|
Superintendent of Financial Institutions |
$12,465,982 |
90% |
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been providing massive funds in the name of COVID despite the fact that Joe Biden admitted the ‘pandemic’ was over by 2022.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is withdrawing $11.4 billion in COVID funding to state and local health departments, non-government groups, and international recipients about two years after the U.S. government declared the COVID-19 “national emergency” over.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” HHS director of communications Andrew Nixon said in a statement, NBC News reported.
“HHS is prioritizing funding projects that will deliver on President Trump’s mandate to address our chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.“
Despite the fact that former President Joe Biden admitted in 2022 that the COVID “pandemic” was over, Health and Human Services (HHS) has been continuing to allocate funds for COVID testing, “vaccines,” and “global COVID projects,” according to CDC talking points.
The funding cut comes as millions of dollars for other initiatives, including vaccine hesitancy research and HIV prevention, are slashed under new HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
HHS has made the greatest funding cutbacks government-wide, according to the Department of Government Efficiency’s website.
Dr. Robert Malone argued in 2023 that the only reason the Biden administration decided to end the national COVID “emergency” when it did is because of the congressional legislation seeking that end.
“The bottom line is that the imperial U.S. administrative state will never give up these unconstitutional powers until forced to do so,” Malone wrote.
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