Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree estimates more than 166,000 “assault-style” firearms are subject to a $742 million national buyback program. Only 51,000 have been registered with six days remaining before expiry of a compensation deadline: "I’m cautiously optimistic." READ MORE
Cabinet spent billions on electric transit buses without any data on how they perform in winter months, records show. Managers said they had “not been made aware” of any problems since then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna launched the subsidy program in 2021: "It is another step forward for smart public transit funding." READ MORE
Senators yesterday warned the Department of Finance they will seek to split unwieldy omnibus budget bills. Cabinet last came close to losing a split bill on a tie vote in 2017: "The 1994 Budget Implementation Act was only 24 pages long whereas recent bills routinely exceeded 600 pages." READ MORE
Federal New Democrats face a “hard road” in recovering from the disastrous 2025 election, four-term MP Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East) yesterday told reporters. The Party selects a new leader Sunday: "I’m not going to pretend that it’s going to be a cakewalk." READ MORE
Taxpayers are owed details of specific steps cabinet will take to save the post office, members of the Senate national finance committee said yesterday. Senators complained of little tangible action since cabinet months ago promised “structural reforms.” READ MORE
Immigration Minister Lena Diab yesterday denied responsibility for an audit that found her department was indifferent to known cases of fraud by foreign students. “We are doing our job,” she told the Commons immigration committee. READ MORE
Opposition members yesterday challenged the Department of Immigration to account for policies that cost Canadians’ jobs. “The unemployment rate for students is at 18 percent,” Conservative MP Vincent Neil Ho (Richmond Hill South, Ont.) told the Commons immigration committee. READ MORE
We all have buttons you can push. In Canada the regional buttons are there to be pushed. But the problem is once you push the buttons what are you left with? Are you left with a configuration of people who can solve problems? Or are you left with simply a fragmentation of power and the people who’ve been angry and said, “We’re going to show you.” Our time in government had been very tumultuous. We were in a recession, the economy wasn’t growing. There were just a lot of things happening, and people were mad. And who do you take it out on? You take it out on the government.
