CAUGHT: Unelected senators bill taxpayers for international travel

Canadian Taxpayers Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 19m

Unelected senators billed taxpayers $1,850,420 on international travel between Jan. 16, 2023 and March 17, 2026.

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Unelected senators are billing taxpayers for trips around the world,

even though elected members of Parliament are often already on the same trips.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s analysis also found unelected senators travelled for meetings that they could have attended virtually and even submitted written speeches instead of actually standing up and delivering the remarks.

Senators…