Federal spending up 6.2 per cent so far this year, with another $9.7-billion requested

Parliamentarians will be asked to approve roughly $8.8-billion of the overall spending requested through the first supplementary estimates of the year.

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, pictured during a January 2021 press conference on pre-budget consultations that year, tabled the 2022-23 Supplementary Estimates A in the House of Commons on May 20. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

June 7, 2022

Laying out a total of $9.7-billion in additional federal spending, the first supplementary estimates of 2022-23 are significantly lower than last year—an almost 77 per cent drop from the first supplementary estimates for 2021-22—but overall, federal spending so far this year is up by more than s...

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