The cost to run the Senate of Canada has soared by roughly 70 per cent in the seven years since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was first elected — an increase some say is unacceptable, given that the number of senators has remained static over the same period.
The Senate's standing committee on internal economy, budgets and administration (CIBA), the body of senators that governs the upper house, adopted a budget Thursday that will cost Canadian taxpayers $126.7 million in the 2023-24 fiscal year.
In 2015-16, the last year before Trudeau's reforms to the Red Chamber, Senate expenditures were $74.5 million.
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