Parliamentary Budget Officer

The federal government has spent over $270 million on irregular border crossers over the last year and a half, according to government figures submitted to the parliamentary budget office.

The Trudeau government tabled legislation Tuesday which, once passed, will give the parliamentary budget officer expanded powers but also impose new restrictions.

Putting his signature to the Paris accord was the easy part. The hard part comes next.

An increase in the number of extreme storms is costing the federal disaster relief program millions of dollars