Out-of-touch decision makers.

The MP sessional allowance in effect on 1 April 2026 is $217,700.

Median total income in 2024, excluding people with no income, was $46,300 in 2024 constant dollars.

CBC News reported on 24 April 2012 that International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda’s three-day Savoy bill, after a hotel switch, was $1,995, about $665 a night, including orange juice at $16. She repaid $1,353.81.

The Toronto Sun reported on 10 April 2026 that order-paper answers showed $524,815.04 billed for in-flight catering on 28 prime ministerial trips from March 2025 to February 2026. The largest, to the United Arab Emirates and the G20 in Johannesburg, was $158,986.43.

The National Post reported on 18 June 2024 that an order-paper answer put in-flight catering for Justin Trudeau’s September 2023 Indo-Pacific trip at $223,234. It also reported a $100,000 in-flight catering bill for Governor General Mary Simon and 29 guests on a March 2022 trip to Dubai.

In a June 2015 report, the Auditor General found that 30 senators or former senators had expenses outside Senate rules, not for parliamentary business, or too poorly documented for an audit opinion. The audit covered more than 80,000 items totalling $45 million, from 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2013, and did not assess intent.

The Trudeau Report of 20 December 2017 found that Justin Trudeau contravened sections 5, 11, 12 and 21 of the Conflict of Interest Act over vacations on Bells Cay, a private island in the Bahamas owned by the Aga Khan, including 26 December 2016 to 4 January 2017. He did not contravene subsection 14(1) of the Members’ Code, or subsection 6(1) or section 7 of the Act.

Global News reported on 28 June 2026, using Ethics Commissioner summaries, that 38 per cent of ministers are landlords and that 103 MPs or their spouses disclosed rental income, a rental property, or a related business, including Conservatives, Liberals, Bloc Québécois MPs, and an independent. As of 23 June 2026, 11 of 343 disclosures were still unpublished, so this is not a share of the whole House.