What Parliament Costs Canadians

House of Commons members’ expenses only (staff, travel, hospitality, contracts) — salaries are not included here, so these figures are smaller than the totals above. Each quarter is charged to the party the MP sat for at the time, retired MPs included; costs incurred after an MP left office go to the party they last sat for. Complete calendar years only. The House only, not the Senate.

“Unattributed” is spending we could not tie to a party; it is shown separately, never folded in. Party switches and retired-MP shares are on the parties page.

Senators’ expenses only (office, living, hospitality, travel and contracts) — salaries are not included here. Each quarter is charged to the caucus the senator belonged to in that quarter, retired senators included. Complete calendar years only; the Senate publishes these summaries from the third quarter of 2016, so 2017 is the first full year. The Senate’s 2016–17 transition labels “Non-affiliated (Independent Senators Group)” and “(Independent Reform)” are counted under Non-affiliated.

“Retired” is the share of each caucus’s total incurred by senators no longer sitting. “Per senator” is the cost in 2025 divided by the senators who held that caucus at any point in the year, so a mid-year move or retirement lowers it. Source: Senate proactive disclosure, quarterly expenditure summaries.

No caucus is shown for this period. The Senate’s reports for these 23 quarters name no party, and we hold no dated record of who sat in which caucus before the third quarter of 2016 — so we show none rather than guess. 128 senators, $106.9M in expenses in total (expenses only: office, hospitality, living and travel — salaries are not included). A senator’s total covers only the quarters they sat in this window.

Ranked by total. Senators still on today’s roster link to their profile; former senators have no profile page here and appear as plain text. These are the Senate’s own reporting quarters (December–February, March–May, June–August, September–November), so they do not line up with the calendar-year caucus table above. A few quarters are net negative: a repayment. Source: Senate proactive disclosure, archived quarterly expenditure reports.

From the House’s annual per-member expense reports, before the quarterly disclosure began. These are fiscal years (April to March) — FY2010 is April 2009 to March 2010 — so they do not line up with the calendar years above and are not added to them. Each is the member’s office budget plus what the House provided (travel, phones, printing, supplies); salaries are not included. Each member’s whole year is charged to the party they sat for at the middle of the year (a member who first sat later that year, such as after an election, is charged to the party of that first stint): 81 member-years involved a mid-year party change and are counted wholly under one party. Vacant seats are not members and are left out.

These older reports print no per-member total and leave blank cells out, so only each member’s total is reliable — no category split is shown. Every year’s members add up to the report’s own printed total, to within rounding. The two report formats do not list exactly the same categories, so read each block on its own rather than as one unbroken series.

“Retired” is the share incurred by members no longer sitting today. Parties are shown as they were named at the time. Source: House of Commons annual Members’ Expenditure Reports.