Jake McBride

"The budget also fails basic tests of transparency. It does not explain how the spring update, released almost a month after the 2025-26 fiscal year ended, got the deficit so wrong — $27.5-billion wrong — nor why the government, after concealing this information for months, assumes that the unexpectedly buoyant revenue that helped produce the surprise will continue. It mixes old and new announcements, making readers work needlessly hard to figure out what the budget actually changes. And it does not present clear numbers on the government’s biggest new commitment: defence."—Don Drummond and Bill Robson

Carney told Global News the 200k temporary-to-permanent pathway is sustainable and that asylum claims are down 70%, temporary foreign workers 60%, and students 80% Yet again, those percentages are selective. Full-year 2025 drops were smaller (~34%, ~47%, ~61%). The higher figures use partial windows against the 2024 peak The plan sets 380k permanent residents + 370k new temporary arrivals (~750k combined). The 200k pathway is extra and does not count against the 380k target — effective permanent residents can reach ~580k in 2027 Permanent resident targets of 380k remain well above the pre-2015 average of ~250–300k. The non-permanent resident stock still sits near 2.78 million after Statistics Canada’s September revision added ~240k people back into the count — about 6.7% of the population and above the stated under-5% goal The cuts in new temporary arrivals from the peak are real. Framing the steepest partial percentages as restored control, while locking in high combined intake and while the temporary stock remains elevated after data revisions, is not @MarkJCarney

"Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated eight money services businesses based in Canada that enable the Iranian regime, sanctioned entities associated with the regime, and other illicit actors that move assets into and out of Iran." "...Today’s action was coordinated with the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and FINTRAC, Canada’s financial intelligence unit"

Of course they do! "The Budget 2026 investment follows an additional $150 million the public broadcaster received in last year’s federal budget. CBC/Radio-Canada typically receives about 70% of its budget from the government, with the remaining 30% generated by advertising. It received a total of $1.46B from Ottawa for 2025-26"