Senate exempt from Carney’s spending review, but opts to launch own program audit

‘It seems there’s a new government in place that wants to be fiscally more responsible,’ says Conservative Senate Leader Leo Housakos, and the Red Chamber ‘can help them achieve those goals.’

ISG Senator Éric Forest, left, and Conservative Senator Claude Carignan are members of the subcommittee tasked with launching a program review after a motion from ISG Senator Lucie Moncion passed at a committee meeting with broad support.The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright, Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

October 17, 2025

Senators are planning to launch a program review to pick off “low-hanging” fruit and find efficiencies amid the Carney government’s directive to make broad departmental spending cuts.

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