Total MP spending reaches $178.3-million in 2025-26

The highest spending MP overall was the Bloc Québécois’ Marilène Gill, who represents a large rural riding and reported a grand total of $715,493 in expenses.
The Centre Block building—the historic seat of the House of Commons—on Parliament Hill on Aug. 11 as scaffolding related to its ongoing multibillion-dollar renovation increasingly covers its iconic south façade. The Hill Times photograph Andrew Meade
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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT
August 19, 2026

Members of Parliament spent a grand total of $178.3-million through their individual office budgets through the course of the election year that was 2025-26, down roughly 2.6 per cent from 2024-25. 

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