Is This The Canada You Want? $40 Billion Gone. No Vote. No Debate

Stop what you’re doing. You need to know what just happened—because it affects every taxpayer, every small business, every Canadian trying to hang on.

On April 1, while most of us were focused on the real challenges in our lives—rising food prices, high rent, increasing debt, broken healthcare—the Trudeau-appointed Governor General quietly approved $40.3 billion in new federal spending. This was done under what’s called a “special warrant.” Sounds official, but here’s what it really means: billions of your dollars spent without debate, without a vote, without a single question in Parliament.

There was no due process. No committee oversight. No media scrutiny. Just signatures behind closed doors. The spending was authorized while Parliament remained suspended—prorogued by a government that didn’t want to face tough questions about its ongoing Green Slush Fund scandal.

So, where’s all that money going?

Let’s start with the biggest red flag—$150 million to the CBC. While families cut back on basic groceries and small businesses are laying off staff, the federal government decides that the most “urgent” priority is a $150 million cash injection to a media outlet that already receives over a billion a year in public funding.

If that doesn’t make your blood boil, maybe this will.

Just days ago, a CBC reporter—paid by you—stood in the White House press gallery and asked a question so absurd it barely deserves repeating: whether Donald Trump still wants Canada to become the 51st state. That’s not journalism. That’s a political plant. It came just as Mark Carney’s polling numbers were slipping, and the anti-Trump narrative was losing steam. Suddenly, the CBC steps in to revive the fear campaign? Coincidence? Don’t kid yourself.

We need answers. Who is that reporter? Do they hold a Liberal Party membership? Have they volunteered for or donated to the party? Are they part of Carney’s backchannel communications strategy? If a private media outlet had done this for a Conservative leader, there would already be calls for a public inquiry.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

The Treasury Board Secretariat—the same department approving all this spending—gets $1.1 billion of the total. Yes, the people cutting the cheques are writing one to themselves.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation? Another $778 million. This is the same agency that keeps promising affordable housing while prices climb and new builds stall. Where is this money really going?

VIA Rail was given $166 million, even though ridership remains a fraction of pre-pandemic levels and the service loses money year after year. Why now? What’s the emergency?

Parks Canada gets $143 million. Statistics Canada, another $145 million. Telefilm Canada? $75 million. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council? $246 million.

Even the Canadian Museum of History—which charges admission and has substantial private donations—was handed almost $10 million.

And then there’s the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, which received $1.5 million despite reporting $28 million in investments and over $1.2 million in passive income last year.

This isn’t emergency spending. It’s political spending. It’s a desperate government shovelling money to departments, agencies, and institutions that will protect its legacy and promote its talking points during an election campaign.

All of this was done while Parliament was suspended—on purpose—to avoid scrutiny. The Liberals have learned that when you shut down the debate, you can do whatever you want. No questions. No opposition. Just unchecked power.

This isn't how our system is supposed to work. We’re a Parliamentary democracy, not a monarchy. But you wouldn’t know it watching the federal government operate today.

Trudeau may be gone, but the system he built is still in place. Carney is the new figurehead, but the same insiders are making the same decisions. They’re betting that Canadians won’t notice—or won’t care.

They’re wrong.

We’re the ones paying for this. We’re the ones watching our tax bills grow while government grows bigger, less transparent, and more entitled. It’s always the same story: you tighten your belt, they cash another cheque.

None of this makes your life better. Not one line item in that $40.3 billion package will reduce your tax burden, shorten your wait time in the ER, or make your street safer. The money vanishes into a bloated machine that serves itself.

So ask yourself: is this the country you want to live in?

Because if we don’t change course, this isn’t the end—it’s just the beginning. Another four years of this, and we won’t recognize what’s left.

This election matters. What happened on April 1 is proof of that. $40.3 billion gone without a vote. Without your consent. Without a shred of accountability.

If that doesn’t wake you up, I don’t know what will.