Canada Senate Committee on Budgets and Administration Proposes Record-High Senate Budget

Canada’s Senate committee that considers financial and administrative matters has proposed increasing the upper house’s spending to a record high of nearly $135 million for the 2024–25 fiscal year, records show. This estimate, presented to the Senate of Canada in mid December 2023, recommended a total spending of $134,868,514 for the coming fiscal year, which runs from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025. It’s $8,174,128 more than the 2023–24 amount of $126,694,386 This is “[t]o provide the best possible environment for Senators to effectively contribute to federal legislation and public policy issues in the best interest of all Canadians,” the Standing Senate Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration (CIBA) wrote in the Executive Summary of its 2024–25 budget, as first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter on Jan. 5....