Feds set out $486.9-billion in spending in 2025-26 main estimates

The total budgetary ask represents an 8.4 per cent jump over last year's spending document, and includes $73.4-billion in special warrants issued while Parliament was prorogued.

The 2025-26 main estimates were tabled in the House of Commons by new Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali on May 27. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

May 28, 2025

The Carney government’s first set of main estimates have been published, and set out $486.9-billion in federal spending, an increase of roughly 8.4 per cent compared to the year prior.

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