Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklock’s Reporter (⁠blacklocks.ca⁠⁠), joins Alex Pierson to discuss:

1. A cabinet appointee named to oversee “nation-building projects” was cited for failing in her duties in a 2023 Federal Court case, records show. Dawn Farrell, named Friday as CEO of the Major Projects Office, was taken to Court by federal Access To Informationlawyers.https://www.blacklocks.ca/ceo-failed-in-legal-duties/.

2. Taxpayers are owed updated figures from Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne on the cost of subsidies for electric auto battery factories, says the Budget Office. Champagne had defended billions in subsidies as a “game changer for the nation” prior to industry slowdowns.https://www.blacklocks.ca/want-update-on-ev-subsidy/.

3. Cabinet to date is 89 percent shy of its target to plant two billion trees, figures show. The program announced by then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna in 2019 has cost $267.7 million so far.“To date over 228 million trees have been planted representing important progress,”https://www.blacklocks.ca/2b-trees-programs-89-short.

4. Federal payroll costs total a record $71.1 billion annually and are headed for more than $76 billion based on current trends, the Budget Officehttps://www.blacklocks.ca/govt-payroll-tops-71-billion/.

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